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Markus Jakobsson

Associate Professor of Informatics and Associate Associate Professor of Cognitive Science

Markus Jakobsson received his M.S. in Computer Engineering from Lund Institute of Technology in 1993; his M.S. in Computer Science from University of California at San Diego in 1994; and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California at San Diego in 1997. He held a joint appointment at San Diego Supercomputer Center and General Atomics during 1996 and 1997, and joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of the Technical Staff in 1997. He was Principal Research Scientist at RSA Laboratories between 2001 and 2004, and adjunct associate professor at New York University from 2002 to 2004. In 2004, he joined Indiana University at Bloomington as an associate professor in the School of Informatics. He is an associate director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, and an associate member of the cognitive science program at Indiana University. He is a visiting research fellow of the APWG, a founder of RavenWhite, a founding member of RSA eFraud Forum, and a consultant to the financial sector. He teaches on phishing and counter-measures, click-fraud, the human factor in security, cryptography, network security, protocol design, and he likes to cheat. He coordinates the efforts of stop-phishing.com and is a co-editor of "Phishing and Countermeasures" (Wiley, 2006). He has a lot of fun with www.SecurityCartoon.com.

Recent and Upcoming Events

• Program chair, APWG eCrime '07, October 2007.
• Program co-chair (with Dan Boneh), AdFraud '07, September 2007.
• General chair, Crypto '07, August 2007.
• Invited speaker, USENIX Security '07, August 2007. "The Human Factor in Online Fraud."
• Invited speaker, TIPPI '07, June 2007. "The Human Factor in Phishing and Malware."
• Invited panelist, ACI Authentication Conference, June 2007. "Comparing Authentication Solutions: What’s Really Working?"
• Invited webinar speaker, Bank Systems & Technology, May 2007. "Threat evolution, past and future."
• Invited panelist, eFraudNetwork LIVE!, May 2007. "To be secure or not to be? How to market security to consumers."
• Speaker, FraudAction Customer Advisory Council, eFraudNetwork LIVE!, May 2007.
• Invited webinar speaker, BankInfoSecurity, May 2007. "Crimeware and Phishing (and why we should worry.)"

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• M. Jakobsson, S. Stamm,
  "Web Camouflage: Protecting Your Clients From Browser Sniffing Attacks."
  To appear in the Nov/Dec issue of IEEE Security & Privacy magazine, 2007.
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• S. Srikwan, M. Jakobsson,
  "Using Cartoons to Teach Internet Security."
  DIMACS Technical Report 2007-11, July 2007.
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• A. Juels, S. Stamm, M. Jakobsson.
  "Combatting Click Fraud via Premium Clicks."
  USENIX Security '07.
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• T. Jagatic, N. Johnson, M. Jakobsson, F. Menczer.
  "Social Phishing."
  to appear in the Communications of the ACM, October, 2007
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• P. Finn and M. Jakobsson.
  "Designing and Conducting Phishing Experiments."
  IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Special Issue on Usability and Security, 2007
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• M. Gandhi, M. Jakobsson, J. Ratkiewicz.
  " Badvertisements: Stealthy Click-Fraud with Unwitting Accessories."
  Anti-Phishing and Online Fraud, Part I Journal of Digital Forensic Practice, Volume 1, Special Issue 2, November 2006
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• P. Golle, X. Wang, M. Jakobsson, A. Tsow.
  "Deterring Voluntary Trace Disclosure in Re-encryption Mix Networks."
  IEEE S&P '06
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• M. Jakobsson, A. Juels, T. Jagatic.
  "Cache Cookies for Browser Authentication - Extended Abstract."
  IEEE S&P '06
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• M. Jakobsson and J. Ratkiewicz.
  "Designing Ethical Phishing Experiments: A study of (ROT13) rOnl auction query features."
  WWW '06
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• N. Ben Salem, J.-P. Hubaux, M. Jakobsson.
  "Reputation-based Wi-Fi Deployment."
  Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Volume 9, Number 3
  (Best papers of WMASH 2004)
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• V. Griffith and M. Jakobsson.
  "Messin' with Texas, Deriving Mother's Maiden Names Using Public Records."
  ACNS '05 and CryptoBytes, Winter '07.
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• M. Jakobsson.
  "Modeling and Preventing Phishing Attacks."
  Phishing Panel in Financial Cryptography '05. 2005.
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• P. Golle, M. Jakobsson, A. Juels, and P. Syverson.
  "Universal Re-encryption for Mixnets."
  In CT-RSA '04. LNCS 2964. Springer-Verlag, 2004. pp. 163--178.
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• M. Jakobsson, T. Leighton, S. Micali and M. Szydlo.
  "Fractal Merkle Tree Representation and Traversal."
  In RSA-CT '03 2003.
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• P. MacKenzie, T. Shrimpton, and M. Jakobsson.
  "Threshold Password-Authenticated Key Exchange."
  In CRYPTO '02. LNCS 2442. Springer-Verlag, 2002. pp. 385--400.
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• D. Coppersmith and M. Jakobsson.
  "Almost Optimal Hash Sequence Traversal."
  In Financial Crypto '02. 2002.
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• M. Jakobsson and S. Wetzel.
  "Security Weaknesses in Bluetooth."
  In CT--RSA '01. LNCS 2020. Springer-Verlag, 2001. pp. 176--191.
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• J. Garay, M. Jakobsson, and P. MacKenzie.
  "Abuse-free Optimistic Contract Signing."
  In CRYPTO '99. LNCS 1666. Springer-Verlag, 1999. pp. 449--466.
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• G. Di Crescenzo, N. Ferguson, R. Impagliazzo, and M. Jakobsson.
  "How To Forget a Secret."
  In STACS '99. LNCS 1563. Springer-Verlag, 1999. pp. 500--509.
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• A. Herzberg, M. Jakobsson, S. Jarecki, H. Krawczyk, and M. Yung.
  "Proactive public-key and signature schemes."
  In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference on Computer Communications Security. ACM Press, 1997. pp. 100--110.
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• M. Jakobsson and M. Yung.
  "Proving Without Knowing."
  In Crypto '96. LNCS 1109. Springer-Verlag, 1996. pp. 186--200.
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• M. Jakobsson, K. Sako, and R. Impagliazzo.
  "Designated Verifier Proofs and Their Applications."
  In Advances in Cryptology -- EuroCrypt '96. LNCS 1070. Springer-Verlag, 1996. pp. 143--154.
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