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Gilbert Wondracek is currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the Vienna University of Technology.

He works in the field of IT security and privacy, and is a research fellow at the International Secure Systems Lab, a cooperation between the University of California, Santa Barbara, Institut Eurecom and the Vienna University of Technology.


[+] Contact

Email: gilbertATwondracek.com (please replace "AT" with "@")
Phone: +43 1 58801-18314
Fax: +43 1 58801-18391


[+] Additional Online Stuff

Xing Profile
International Secure Systems Lab


[+] Publications

Clickonomics: Determining the Effect of Anti-Piracy Measures for One-Click Hosting
Tobias Lauinger, Martin Szydlowski, Kaan Onarlioglu, Gilbert Wondracek, Engin Kirda and Christopher Kruegel
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Feb. 2013, San Diego, to appear

Vanity, Cracks and Malware
Markus Kammerstetter, Christian Platzer, Gilbert Wondracek
19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Oct. 2012, Raleigh, NC, USA

Secure Software in der Cloud
Sebastian Schrittwieser and Peter Fruehwirt and Peter Kieseberg and Manuel Leithner and Martin Mulazzani and Markus Huber and Gilbert Wondracek and Sylvi Rennert and Edgar R. Weippl
Tagungsband Cloud und Klein: IT im Spannungsfeld zwischen Servercluster und Sensornetz, 2012

Social Snapshots: Digital Forensics for Online Social Networks
Markus Huber and Martin Mulazzani and Manuel Leithner and Sebastian Schrittwieser and Gilbert Wondracek and Edgar R. Weippl
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2011

Covertly Probing Underground Economy Marketplaces
Hanno Fallmann, Gilbert Wondracek and Christian Platzer Seventh Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA), July 2010, Bonn, Germany

A Practical Attack to De-Anonymize Social Network Users
Gilbert Wondracek and Thorsten Holz and Engin Kirda and Christopher Kruegel
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2010, Berkeley.

Is the Internet for Porn? An Insight into the Online Adult Industry
Gilbert Wondracek and Thorsten Holz and Christian Platzer and Engin Kirda and Christopher Kruegel
Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2010, Harvard, USA

Prospex: Protocol Specification Extraction
Paolo Milani Comparetti, Gilbert Wondracek, Christopher Kruegel, and Engin Kirda
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2009, Berkeley.

Automatic Network Protocol Analysis
Gilbert Wondracek and Paolo Milani Comparetti and Engin Kirda and Christopher Kruegel
15th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Feb. 2008, San Diego



[+] Press Coverage

Some of my projects got a lot of press coverage. A (non-complete) collection of corresponding links can be found below (roughly in chronological order):

Recent stuff

26.8.2011 TV Interview "Europe vs. Facebook", Servus Journal, Servus TV

23.8.2011 Der Standard - Forschung Spezial, Article

11.8.2011 Radio Interview "Anonymous vs. Facebook", Ö3-Wecker

8.8.2011 bits4free Talk "What the Hack" - Crashkurs über die Techniken der Hacker und wie schützt man sich richtig

30.3.2011 q/Talk "Zeigt her Eure Daten" Link + Audio

12.3.2011 The Economist - Technology Quarterly Q1 2011, page 8, "Anonymous no more" Link

2.11.2010 FM4 Connected "IT: Digitale Signaturen - Unterschrift per Mausklick" Link



Study on the Online Adult Industry

Related academic publication: Is the Internet for Porn? An Insight Into the Online Adult Industry (PDF)
Presented at The Ninth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS). Harvard, USA, June 2010.

De-Anonymization of Social Networks

Related academic publication: A Practical Attack to De-Anonymize Social Network Users (PDF)
Presented at Symposium on Security and Privacy. Oakland, USA, May 2010.
Underground Economy