Software Security

Proceedings of the 20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT), August 2026

@inproceedings{woot2026-onelogon,
  title     = {{Onelogon: Taking over Active Directory Accounts via Netlogon}},
  author    = {Neff, Alexander and Holl, Tobias and Borgolte, Kevin},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT)},
  code      = {https://github.com/rub-softsec/onelogon},
  date      = {2026-08},
  editor    = {Bianchi, Antonio and Classen, Jiska},
  location  = {Baltimore, MD, USA},
  publisher = {USENIX Association}
}

Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA), July 2026

@inproceedings{dimva2026-hbbtv-old-issues,
  title     = {{New Platform, Old Issues: How Web-based TV Broadcasts threaten Users' Security}},
  author    = {Tagliaro, Carlotta and Danis, Andrej and Borgolte, Kevin and Lindorfer, Martina},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware \& Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA)},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)},
  code      = {https://github.com/SecPriv/HbbTV-attack-toolkit},
  date      = {2026-07},
  editor    = {Moonsamy, Veelasha and D'Elia, Daniele Cono},
  location  = {Chania, Greece},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing}
}

Proceedings of the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), April 2026

@inproceedings{icse2026-storfuzz,
  title     = {{StorFuzz: Using Data Diversity to Overcome Fuzzing Plateaus}},
  author    = {Weiß, Leon and Holl, Tobias and Borgolte, Kevin},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)},
  code      = {https://github.com/rub-softsec/storfuzz/},
  data      = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14979693},
  date      = {2026-04},
  doi       = {10.1145/3744916.3773179},
  editor    = {Mezini, Mira and Zimmermann, Thomas},
  location  = {Rio de Janeiro, Brazil},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)},
  volume    = {48}
}

Proceedings of the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), April 2026

@inproceedings{icse2026-hallucinating-certificates,
  title     = {{Hallucinating Certificates: Differential Testing of TLS Certificate Validation Using Generative Language Models}},
  author    = {Paracha, Talha and Posluns, Kyle and Borgolte, Kevin and Lindorfer, Martina and Choffnes, David},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)},
  code      = {https://github.com/rub-softsec/mlcerts},
  data      = {https://zenodo.org/records/15971208},
  date      = {2026-04},
  doi       = {10.1145/3744916.3773203},
  editor    = {Mezini, Mira and Zimmermann, Thomas},
  location  = {Rio de Janeiro, Brazil},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)},
  volume    = {48}
}

Proceedings of the 5th International Fuzzing Workshop (FUZZING), February 2026

@inproceedings{fuzzing2026-the-things-that-count,
  title     = {{The Things That Count: Coverage Evaluation Under the Microscope (Registered Report)}},
  author    = {Holl, Tobias and Weiß, Leon and Borgolte, Kevin},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Fuzzing Workshop (FUZZING)},
  code      = {https://softsec.link/fz26.cov/},
  date      = {2026-02-27},
  doi       = {10.14722/fuzzing.2026.23030},
  editor    = {Böhme, Marcel and Meng, Ruijie and Padhye, Rohan and Noller, Yannic and Szekeres, László},
  location  = {San Diego, CA, USA},
  publisher = {Internet Society (ISOC)},
  volume    = {5}
}

Proceedings of the 5th International Fuzzing Workshop (FUZZING), February 2026

@inproceedings{fuzzing2026-pogofuzz,
  title     = {{Pogofuzz: Profile-Guided Optimization for Fuzzing (Registered Report)}},
  author    = {Holl, Tobias and Weiß, Leon and Borgolte, Kevin},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Fuzzing Workshop (FUZZING)},
  code      = {https://softsec.link/fz26.pogofuzz/},
  date      = {2026-02-27},
  doi       = {10.14722/fuzzing.2026.23029},
  editor    = {Böhme, Marcel and Meng, Ruijie and Padhye, Rohan and Noller, Yannic and Szekeres, László},
  location  = {San Diego, CA, USA},
  publisher = {Internet Society (ISOC)},
  volume    = {5}
}

Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Binary Analysis Research (BAR), February 2026

@inproceedings{bar2026-does-representation-matter,
  title     = {{Does Representation Matter? Evaluating IRs for LLM-based Binary Decompilation}},
  author    = {Pelayo-Benedet, Tomás and Borgolte, Kevin and Rodríguez, Ricardo J.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Binary Analysis Research (BAR)},
  data      = {https://github.com/rub-softsec/does-representation-matter-dataset},
  date      = {2026-02-27},
  doi       = {10.14722/bar.2026.23077},
  editor    = {Bardin, Sébastien and Hauser, Christophe},
  location  = {San Diego, CA, USA},
  publisher = {Internet Society (ISOC)},
  volume    = {9}
}

Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), September 2024

@inproceedings{raid2024-iot-backends,
  title     = {{Large-Scale Security Analysis of Real-World Backend Deployments Speaking IoT-Focused Protocols}},
  author    = {Tagliaro, Carlotta and Komsic, Martina and Continella, Andrea and Borgolte, Kevin and Lindorfer, Martina},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID)},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)},
  date      = {2024-09},
  doi       = {10.1145/3678890.3678899},
  edition   = {27},
  editor    = {Aafer, Yousra and Fratantonio, Yanick},
  isbn      = {979-8-4007-0959},
  location  = {Padua, Italy},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing}
}

Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity (WTMC), July 2024

@inproceedings{wtmc2024-are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-cvd,
  title     = {{Are You Sure You Want To Do Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure?}},
  author    = {Chen, Ting-Han and Tagliaro, Carlotta and Lindorfer, Martina and Borgolte, Kevin and van der Ham-de Vos, Jeroen},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity (WTMC)},
  date      = {2024-07-08},
  doi       = {10.1109/EuroSPW61312.2024.00039},
  edition   = {9},
  location  = {Vienna, Austria},
  publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}
}

Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2023

@inproceedings{ccs2023-iotflow,
  title     = {{IoTFlow: Inferring IoT Device Behavior at Scale through Static Mobile Companion App Analysis}},
  author    = {Schmidt, David and Tagliaro, Carlotta and Borgolte, Kevin and Lindorfer, Martina},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)},
  date      = {2023-11},
  doi       = {10.1145/3576915.3623211},
  edition   = {30},
  editor    = {Cremers, Cas and Kirda, Engin},
  location  = {Copenhagen, Denmark},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)}
}

Phrack (Volume 15, Issue 70), October 2021

Authors listed alphabetically.

@article{phrack2021-cyber-grand-shellphish,
  title     = {{Cyber Grand Shellphish}},
  author    = {Bianchi, Antonio and Borgolte, Kevin and Corbetta, Jacopo and Disperati, Francesco and Dutcher, Andrew and Grosen, John and Grosen, Paul and Machiry, Aravind and Salls, Christopher and Shoshitaishvili, Yan and Stephens, Nick and Vigna, Giovanni and Wang, Ruoyu},
  date      = {2021-10-05},
  journal   = {Phrack},
  number    = {70},
  publisher = {The Phrack Staff},
  url       = {http://phrack.org/papers/cyber_grand_shellphish.html},
  volume    = {15}
}

IEEE Security & Privacy, March 2018

@article{spm2018-mechanical-phish,
  title     = {{Mechanical Phish: Resilient Autonomous Hacking}},
  author    = {Shoshitaishvili, Yan and Bianchi, Antonio and Borgolte, Kevin and Cama, Amat and Corbetta, Jacopo and Disperati, Francesco and Dutcher, Andrew and Grosen, John and Grosen, Paul and Machiry, Aravind and Salls, Christopher and Stephens, Nick and Wang, Ruoyu and Vigna, Giovanni},
  date      = {2018-03/2018-04},
  doi       = {10.1109/MSP.2018.1870858},
  issn      = {1558-4046},
  journal   = {IEEE Security \& Privacy},
  number    = {2},
  pages     = {12--22},
  publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)},
  url       = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8328966/},
  volume    = {16}
}

Proceedings of the 1st USENIX Summit on Gaming, Games and Gamification in Security Education (3GSE), August 2014

@inproceedings{3gse2014-10-years-of-ictf,
  title     = {{Ten Years of iCTF: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly}},
  author    = {Vigna, Giovanni and Borgolte, Kevin and Corbetta, Jacopo and Doupé, Adam and Fratantonio, Yanick and Invernizzi, Luca and Kirat, Dhilung and Shoshitaishvili, Yan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st USENIX Summit on Gaming, Games and Gamification in Security Education (3GSE)},
  date      = {2014-08},
  edition   = {1},
  editor    = {Peterson, Zachary N. J.},
  location  = {San Diego, CA},
  publisher = {USENIX Association},
  url       = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/3gse14/summit-program/presentation/vigna}
}