Title: Cybersecurity of human software developers
| Date and Time of Talk: | 15-December-2021 | 14:00 -14:50 |
Abstract:
Software is at the core of our digital society. Developers have a profound ability to influence and manipulate users. In this talk we go though those so called “dark patterns”, those psychological manipulative powers that trick an audience. However, those psychological manipulation methods only serve as a starting point for an ethical discussion of the responsibilities that developers have. We will cover also the possible dangers that software developers might be subjected to and how those influence operations work.
Biography:
Olaf M. Maennel is a full Professor for Cyber-Security at the Centre of Digital Forensics and Cyber Security at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia. He got tenure in 2017. Before that he was with Loughborough University in UK and with the University of Adelaide in Australia. He have been general co-chair of ACM SIGCOMM 2015, ACM IMC 2017, and Global Internet Symposium GI’17. He serve as EU expert evaluator and vice-chair for Horizon H2020 calls.
His interests are in security, focusing on:
- Network security & network forensics
- Network measurements (active & passive)
- WAN-routing & security (IPv6, BGP/BGPsec,…)
- Communication protocol security including, but not limited to the public transport sector