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Overview

Felix C. Freiling is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of computer science, with a notable focus on information systems and signal processing within this domain. Other subfields of study include artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, and computer networks and communications.

The main research topics covered by Felix C. Freiling include digital and cyber forensics, advanced malware detection techniques, and digital media forensic detection. Additional areas of interest involve advanced data storage technologies, security and verification in computing, user authentication and security systems, and cloud data security solutions.

Freiling has contributed to multiple recent scholarly papers, some of which are:

  • Towards GDPR-compliant data processing in modern SIEM systems (2020, Computers & Security)
  • Tampering with Digital Evidence is Hard: The Case of Main Memory Images (2020, Forensic Science International Digital Investigation)
  • An Experimental Assessment of Inconsistencies in Memory Forensics (2023, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security)
  • Advanced System Resiliency Based on Virtualization Techniques for IoT Devices (2021, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference)
  • Contamination of digital evidence: Understanding an underexposed risk (2023, Forensic Science International Digital Investigation)

Freiling frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Jenny Ottmann, Janine Schneider, Jan Gruber, Christopher Hargreaves, and Frank Breitinger. These partnerships have been reflected in multiple joint publications.

Their work has been published in various venues, with repeated contributions to Forensic Science International Digital Investigation being the most frequent. Other notable venues include Digital Threats Research and Practice, arXiv (Cornell University), Datenschutz und Datensicherheit - DuD, and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.

Best Publications

  • Toward Automated Dynamic Malware Analysis Using CWSandbox

    C. Willems;T. Holz;F. Freiling

  • Measurements and mitigation of peer-to-peer-based botnets: a case study on storm worm

    Thorsten Holz;Moritz Steiner;Frederic Dahl;Ernst Biersack

  • Measuring and Detecting Fast-Flux Service Networks

    Thorsten Holz;Christian Gorecki;Konrad Rieck;Felix C. Freiling

  • The nepenthes platform : An efficient approach to collect malware

    Paul Baecher;Markus Koetter;Thorsten Holz;Maximillian Dornseif

  • Botnet tracking: exploring a root-cause methodology to prevent distributed denial-of-service attacks

    Felix C. Freiling;Thorsten Holz;Georg Wicherski

  • Mobile-sandbox: having a deeper look into android applications

    Michael Spreitzenbarth;Felix Freiling;Florian Echtler;Thomas Schreck

  • Return-oriented rootkits: bypassing kernel code integrity protection mechanisms

    Ralf Hund;Thorsten Holz;Felix C. Freiling

  • Learning more about the underground economy: a case-study of keyloggers and dropzones

    Thorsten Holz;Markus Engelberth;Felix Freiling

  • Mobile Security Catching Up? Revealing the Nuts and Bolts of the Security of Mobile Devices

    Michael Becher;Felix C. Freiling;Johannes Hoffmann;Thorsten Holz

  • On Botnets That Use DNS for Command and Control.

    Christian J. Dietrich;Christian Rossow;Felix C. Freiling;Herbert Bos

  • A structured approach to anomaly detection for in-vehicle networks

    Michael Muter;Andre Groll;Felix C. Freiling

  • TRESOR runs encryption securely outside RAM

    Tilo Müller;Felix C. Freiling;Andreas Dewald

  • Hardware-Based Trusted Computing Architectures for Isolation and Attestation

    Pieter Maene;Johannes Gotzfried;Ruan de Clercq;Tilo Muller

  • A Common Process Model for Incident Response and Computer Forensics.

    Felix C. Freiling;Bastian Schwittay

  • Cooperative Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks

    Ioannis Krontiris;Zinaida Benenson;Thanassis Giannetsos;Felix C. Freiling

  • Sancus 2.0: A Low-Cost Security Architecture for IoT Devices

    Job Noorman;Jo Van Bulck;Jan Tobias Mühlberg;Frank Piessens

  • Sandnet: network traffic analysis of malicious software

    Christian Rossow;Christian J. Dietrich;Herbert Bos;Lorenzo Cavallaro

  • Towards an Intrusion Detection System in Wireless Sensor Networks

    Ioannis Krontiris;Tassos Dimitriou;Felix Freiling

  • Visual analysis of malware behavior using treemaps and thread graphs

    Philipp Trinius;Thorsten Holz;Jan Gobel;Felix C. Freiling

  • Walowdac - Analysis of a Peer-to-Peer Botnet

    Ben Stock;Jan Göbel;Markus Engelberth;Felix C. Freiling

  • Intelligent data analysis: keeping pace with technological advances

    Xiaohui Liu

  • Fundamentals of fault-tolerant distributed computing in asynchronous environments

    Felix Freiling

Frequent Co-Authors

Thorsten Holz
Thorsten Holz Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Christian Rossow
Christian Rossow Saarland University
Herbert Bos
Herbert Bos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Rainer Böhme
Rainer Böhme University of Innsbruck
Maarten van Steen
Maarten van Steen University of Twente
Alexander Maedche
Alexander Maedche Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Konrad Rieck
Konrad Rieck Technische Universität Braunschweig
Rachid Guerraoui
Rachid Guerraoui École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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