Short Bio

I received my Diplom in Computer Science from TUM in 2002. I then completed the Ph.D. program at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. There, I was one of the brains juggled by Jon Crowcroft, my supervisor and pub coach. In 2006 I moved on to ICSI's Networking and Security group, where I am a senior research scientist. My research focuses on topics in network monitoring, distributed systems, and network security.

As of late 2012 I'm also the Director of Research at Lastline, Inc.

I'm German, though they say I have a sense of humor.

Conferences & Workshops

Current events underlined in yellow. PC memberships:

Chairing and other organizational work:

Recent Publications

More papers, including forthcoming work.

• Fathom: A Browser-based Network Measurement Platform pdf bib

  M. Dhawan, J. Samuel, R. Teixeira, C. Kreibich, M. Allman, N. Weaver, V. Paxson. Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2012, Boston, MA, USA.

  Fathom, a runner-up for best paper at IMC 2012, brings a JavaScript network measurement API directly into web pages. Check it out and build cool things with it!

• Priceless: The Role of Payments in Abuse-advertised Goods pdf bib

  D. McCoy, H. Dharmdasani, C. Kreibich, G. Voelker, S. Savage. 19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 16-18 October 2012, Raleigh, NC, USA.

  This paper documents two years of experience in monitoring payment networks for abuse-advertised goods and the efficacy of payment-related interventions. For more details, take a look at Brian Krebs's article on our work.

• PharmaLeaks: Understanding the Business of Online Pharmaceutical Affiliate Programs pdf bib

  D. McCoy, A. Pitsillidis, G. Jordan, N. Weaver, C. Kreibich, B. Krebs, G. Voelker, S. Savage, K. Levchenko. USENIX Security Symposium, 2012, Bellevue/WA, USA.

  This paper presents an in-depth look at the business of rogue internet pharmacies. See Brian's article for a high-level summary.

• Prudent Practices for Designing Malware Experiments: Status Quo and Outlook pdf bib

  C. Rossow, C. Dietrich, C. Kreibich, C. Grier, V. Paxson, N. Pohlmann, H. Bos, M. van Steen. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2012, San Francisco, USA.

Press Coverage

News articles I was interviewed for.

• Forscher nehmen Produktpiraten und Finanzhäuser ins Visier
  Neue Zürcher Zeitung Online 23.06.11
• What's the Harm If I Get What I Pay For?
  Messaging News 16.06.11
• How spam filters dictated Canadian magazine's fate
  BBC News 29.03.10
• Researchers Develop a More Accurate Spam Filter
  Chronicle of Higher Education 27.01.10
• Spam Grows Up
  Berkeley Science Review 01.03.09

Projects

Fathom » turn your browser into a measurement platform

Priv3 » practical third-party privacy for the social web

Click Trajectories » end-to-end analysis of the spam value chain

Netalyzr » debug your internet

Spamalytics » measuring spam conversion

Bro » ultra-flexible traffic analysis

CCIED » fighting internet epidemics

Honeycomb » automatic signature generation

Miscellaneous

How spam works » a real-world spam transaction

Browser use over the course of a day

Adsense's JavaScript dissected

Software

Rich Stevens' sock program

libstree » generic suffix trees

Netdude » pluggable trace manipulation

Broccoli » let Bro talk to anything

cache.h » an STL-style cache (painful!)

A parser for Google Scholar