6 papers
"My Whereabouts, my Location, it's Directly Linked to my Physical Security": An Exploratory Qualitative Study of Location-Dependent Security and Privacy Perceptions among Activist Tech Users
Christian Eichenmüller, Lisa Kuhn, Zinaida Benenson
Digital-safety research with at-risk users is particularly urgent. At-risk users are more likely to be digitally attacked or targeted by surveillance and could be disproportionatel…
Strategies and Challenges of Timestamp Tampering for Improved Digital Forensic Event Reconstruction (extended version)
Céline Vanini, Jan Gruber, Christopher Hargreaves +3
Timestamps play a pivotal role in digital forensic event reconstruction, but due to their non-essential nature, tampering or manipulation of timestamps is possible by users in mult…
Experiencing Apple's Lockdown Mode -- The Challenges of Providing Technology for At-Risk Users
Benedikt Mader, Christian Eichenmüller, Christian Eichenmüller +3
Lockdown Mode, introduced in 2022 as an optional security hardening setting for Apple's operating systems, aims to protect users from "some of the most sophisticated digital threat…
On NVD Users' Attitudes, Experiences, Hopes and Hurdles
Julia Wunder, Alan Corona, Andreas Hammer +1
The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is a major vulnerability database that is free to use for everyone. It provides information about vulnerabilities and further useful resou…
From Chaos to Consistency: The Role of CSAF in Streamlining Security Advisories
Julia Wunder, Janik Aurich, Zinaida Benenson
Security advisories have become an important part of vulnerability management. They can be used to gather and distribute valuable information about vulnerabilities. Although there…
Shedding Light on CVSS Scoring Inconsistencies: A User-Centric Study on Evaluating Widespread Security Vulnerabilities
Julia Wunder, Andreas Kurtz, Christian Eichenmüller +2
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is a popular method for evaluating the severity of vulnerabilities in vulnerability management. In the evaluation process, a numeric…