Simon Koch

PhD candidate and research assistant at the IAS

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Office:

IZ 211

Mühlenpfordtstr. 23

38106, Braunschweig

I am a PhD candidate and research assistant of Martin Johns at the Institute for Application Security, TU Braunschweig. My research focuses on questions surrounding mobile privacy and web security. For mobile privacy I primarily conduct dynamic traffic measurements to assess the data leaked by applications. Whereas for web security I am doing both dynamic and static program analysis research, trying to understand live deployments as well as discovering new vulnerabilities of web applications. If some of my work peaked your interest I am always interested in new collaborations.

I have submitted my dissertation and am about to defend coming April. Therefore, I am searching for new opportunities in academia to continue my research in both the mobile and web space.

news

Feb 12, 2025 Our paper “HyTrack: Resurrectable and Persistent Tracking Across Android Apps and the Web” has been accepted to USENIX’25 and just passed the artifact available evaluation.
Dec 19, 2024 I finally finished and submitted my dissertation “Analyzing Privacy and Data Protection Violations in Mobile Applications”.
Aug 01, 2024 Happy to announce, that we got accepted to PETS’25 with “The Impact of Default Mobile SDK Usage on Privacy and Data Protection”.

selected publications

  1. HyTrack: Resurrectable and Persistent Tracking Across Android Apps and the Web
    Malte Wessels , Simon Koch, Jan Niklas Dreschner , Louis Bettels , David Klein , and Martin Johns
    In USENIX Security Symposium , 2025
  2. The Impact of Default Mobile SDK Usage on Privacy and Data Protection
    Simon Koch, Manuel Karl , Robin Kirchner , Malte Wessels , Anne Paschke , and Martin Johns
    In Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) , 2025
  3. The OK is Not Enough: Large Scale Study of Consent Dialogs in Smartphone Applications
    Simon Koch, Benjamin Altpeter , and Martin Johns
    In USENIX Security Symposium , 2023
  4. FUZZILLI: Fuzzing for JavaScript JIT Compiler Vulnerabilities
    Samuel Groß , Simon Koch, Lukas Bernhardt , Thorsten Holz , and Martin Johns
    In Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium , 2023