I am a third-year PhD student at the chair for Security and Privacy of Ubiquitous Systems at Ruhr University Bochum under the supervision of Veelasha Moonsamy. My research primarily focuses on methods for analyzing and securing firmware running on Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This includes applying static analysis to firmware to test security properties and identify vulnerabilities, as well as examining real-world IoT devices to dissect and understand their inner workings and security mechanisms. I also explore the intersection of software and hardware to understand, for instance, logic vulnerabilities that manifest in software but can only be triggered through physical attacks.
Publications
Kintsugi: Secure Hotpatching for Code-Shadowing Real-Time Embedded Systems
Philipp Mackensen, Christian Niesler, Roberto Blanco, Lucas Davi, Veelasha Moonsamy
Accepted at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium 2025Spatial-Domain Wireless Jamming with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Philipp Mackensen, Paul Staat, Stefan Roth, Aydin Sezgin, Christof Paar, Veelasha Moonsamy
Accepted at the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2025
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Media: [RUB] [Interesting Engineering] [hackster.io]Vulnerability, Where Art Thou? An Investigation of Vulnerability Management in Android Smartphone Chipsets
Daniel Klischies, Philipp Mackensen, Veelasha Moonsamy
Accepted at the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2025
Service
- 19th European Workshop on Systems Security (EuroSec 2026)
- The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2025 (External Reviewer)