How secure are emails, Ben Stock?
"In the morning, one or two cups, and then another four or five throughout the day... CISPA researcher Ben Stock certainly lives up to the name of our series with his coffee consumption—and, of course, also with his research on web security. When asked how secure emails actually are, his clear response was: 'So-so.' He pointed out several reasons for this: no standard end-to-end encryption, insufficient security measures on the part of email providers, making emails the perfect tool for phishing attacks, and the lack of consistent security measures across different mail servers. Phew. Thankfully, Ben also offers tips on how we as users can at least protect ourselves a little."
"Emails are more or less a public space."
Dr. Ben Stock is a tenured Faculty at CISPA. Prior to that, he completed the tenure track at CISPA and was a research group leader and previously postdoctoral researcher at the Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability at Saarland University in the group of Michael Backes. Before joining CISPA, he was a PhD student and research fellow at the Security Research Group of the University Erlangen-Nuremberg, supervised by Felix Freiling. During that time, he was fortunate enough to join Ben Livshits and Ben Zorn at Microsoft Research in Redmond for an internship.
Ben's research interests lie within Web Security, Network Security, Reverse Engineering, and Vulnerability Notifications.
