Research Interests
- Network security
- Privacy measurement
- Honeypots
- TLS, man-in-the-middle attacks
Positions
| since 2023 | Staff Engineer, AppCensus, USA |
| 05/2019–01/2023 | Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria |
| 06/2017–04/2019 | Research Assistant, Department of Information Systems, University of Münster, Germany, seconded to the University of Innsbruck, Austria |
| 2015 – 2017 | Google Summer of Code Mentor for mitmproxy |
| 2014 – 2017 | Graduate Student Assistant at the IT Security Research Group, University of Münster |
| 09/2013 – 10/2013 | Intern at Microsoft |
| 2012 – 2013 | Google Summer of Code Student at the Honeynet Project |
Education
| 2017 – 2022 | Ph.D. studies in Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria |
| 2014 – 2017 | M.Sc. in Information Systems, University of Münster, Germany |
| 04/2016 – 10/2016 | Visiting Research Scholar at the School of Information, University of California at Berkeley, USA |
| 2011 – 2014 | B.Sc. in Information Systems, University of Münster, Germany |
Publications
- Hils, M., Woods, D.W., and Böhme, R. Conflicting Privacy Preference Signals in the Wild. In Computers, Privacy and Data Protection. Brussels, 2022. [Preprint]
- Hils, M., Woods, D.W., and Böhme, R. Privacy Preference Signals: Past, Present and Future. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 4 (2021), 249–269. [Publisher] [Preprint] [Video]
- Hils, M., Woods, D.W., and Böhme, R. Measuring the Emergence of Consent Management on the Web. In Internet Measurement Conference (IMC). ACM, 2020. [PDF] [Video]
- Hils, M. and Böhme, R. Watching the Weak Link into Your Home: An Inspection and Monitoring Toolkit for TR-069. In M. Conti and J. Zhou, eds., Applied Cryptography and Network Security. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12147, Springer, Cham, 2020, pp. 233–253. [Preprint] [Video]
- Hils, M. A Security Analysis of Cloud Storage Services. In Proceedings of the 22. DFN-Konferenz „Sicherheit in vernetzten Systemen“. Hamburg, Germany, 2015, pp. I-1–I-23.
External Functions
| since 2015 | Forensic Challenges Author at the Honeynet Project |
| since 2013 | Open Source Developer at mitmproxy |
Awards
- Best bachelor thesis in Applied Computer Science, awarded by the “Förderkreis der Angewandten Informatik an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster e.V.” (2014)
- Best bachelor thesis in Information Systems, awarded by the zeb GmbH (2014)