Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Stephan Kleber

Promotion zum Dr. rer. nat. an der Uni Ulm 2024: "Automation of the Reverse Engineering of Unknown Binary Network Protocols"

Zuvor Tätigkeiten als:

• IT-Systemingenieur (Zentrum für Information und Kommunikation — Universitätsklinikum Ulm),
• Akademischer Mitarbeiter (Institut für Organisation und Management von Informationssystemen — Universität Ulm und Institut für Verteilte Systeme — Universität Ulm) und
• Senior Security Architect (Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH, ehemals Daimler TSS GmbH, Ulm)

Studium der Informatik an der Uni Ulm

Publikationen

ORCID: 0000-0001-9836-4897
DBLP: https://dblp.org/pid/161/5354.html
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=dsMvUkMAAAAJ
Semantic Scholar: https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Stephan-Kleber/2434447

Peer Reviewed:

• Kleber, Stephan, Tim Palm, Jeremias Eppler, Dennis Eisermann und Frank Kargl (2025). „Assessing the Transferability of Adversarial Patches in Real-World Systems: Implications for Adversarial Testing of Image Recognition Security“. In: Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks. DSN-S. (Supplemental volume).
• Kleber, Stephan und Patrick Wachter (Aug. 2023). „A Strategy to Evaluate Test Time Evasion Attack Feasibility“. In: Datenschutz und Datensicherheit - DuD 47.8, S. 478–482. issn: 1614-0702, 1862-2607.
• Kleber, Stephan und Frank Kargl (2022). „Refining Network Message Segmentation with Principal Component Analysis“. In: Proceedings of the tenth annual IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security. CNS.
• Kleber, Stephan, Milan Stute, Matthias Hollick und Frank Kargl (2022). „Network Message Field Type Classification and Recognition for Unknown Binary Protocols“. In: Proceedings of the DSN Workshop on Data-Centric Dependability and Security. DCDS.
• Wachter, Patrick und Stephan Kleber (2022). „Analysis of the DoIP Protocol for Security Vulnerabilities“. In: Proceedings of the Computer Science in Cars Symposium. CSCS.
• Kröll, Tobias, Stephan Kleber, Frank Kargl, Matthias Hollick und Jiska Classen (2021). „ARIstoteles - Dissecting Apple’s Baseband Interface“. In: Proceedings of the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security. ESORICS.
• Kleber, Stephan, Rens Wouter van der Heijden und Frank Kargl (2020). „Message Type Identification of Binary Network Protocols using Continuous Segment Similarity“. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Communications. INFOCOM.
• Kleber, Stephan und Frank Kargl (2019). „Poster: Network Message Field Type Recognition“. In: Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Computer and Communications Security. CCS. https://oparu.uni-ulm.de/xmlui/handle/123456789/25532.
• Kleber, Stephan, Lisa Maile und Frank Kargl (Feb. 2019). „Survey of Protocol Reverse Engineering Algorithms: Decomposition of Tools for Static Traffic Analysis“. In: IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 21.1. Firstquarter.
• Kleber, Stephan, Henning Kopp und Frank Kargl (2018). „NEMESYS: Network Message Syntax Reverse Engineering by Analysis of the Intrinsic Structure of Individual Messages“. In: Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies. WOOT.
• Kleber, Stephan, Florian Unterstein, Matthias Hiller, Frank Slomka, Matthias Matousek, Frank Kargl und Christoph Bösch (2018). „Secure Code Execution: A Generic PUF-Driven System Architecture“. In: Proceedings of the 21st Information Security (ISC 2018). Hrsg. von Liqun Chen, Mark Manulis und Steve A. Schneider. Bd. 11060. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
• Lukaseder, Thomas, Kevin Stölzle, Stephan Kleber, Benjamin Erb und Frank Kargl (2018). „An SDN-based Approach For Defending Against Reflective DDoS Attacks“. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN).
• Kleber, Stephan, Henrik Ferdinand Nölscher und Frank Kargl (2017). „Automated PCB Reverse Engineering“. In: Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies. WOOT.
• Kleber, Stephan, Rens W. van der Heijden, Henning Kopp und Frank Kargl (2015). „Terrorist Fraud Resistance of Distance Bounding Protocols Employing Physical Unclonable Functions“. In: Proceedings of the International Conference and Workshops on Networked Systems. NetSys.
• Unterstein, Florian, Stephan Kleber, Matthias Matousek, Frank Kargl, Frank Slomka und Matthias Hiller (2015). „Design of the Secure Execution PUF-based Processor (SEPP)“. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Trustworthy Manufacturing and Utilization of Secure Devices, TRUDEVICE 2015.

Weitere Publikationen:

• Kleber, Stephan (Apr. 2024). „Automation of the Reverse Engineering of Unknown Binary Network Protocols“. PhD Thesis. Ulm, Germany.
• Kleber, Stephan, Christian Bungartz, Artur Hermann, Peter Herrmann, Marko Jahnke, Frank Kargl und Andreas Mitschele-Thiel (Okt. 2023). „Trust in AI and Modeling of Threats against AI in Network Defense“. In: Network Attack Detection and Defense–AI-Powered Threats and Responses. Report from Dagstuhl Seminars Dagstuhl Seminar 23431, S. 112–119.
• Kleber, Stephan und Ömer ¸Sahin (Mai 2016). „Durchgecheckt: Forensische Online-Tools zum Enttarnen bösartiger Apps“. In: iX - Magazin für professionelle Informationstechnik 2016.5.
• Kleber, Stephan, Florian Unterstein, Matthias Matousek, Frank Kargl, Frank Slomka und Matthias Hiller (2015). Secure Execution Architecture based on PUF-driven Instruction Level Code Encryption. Techn. Ber. Published: Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2015/651. Institute of Distributed Systems, Ulm University. url: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/651.
• Platzlaff, Heiko und Stephan Kleber (2014). „Working Groups Report: Cyberforensics“. In: Network Attack Detection and Defense: Securing Industrial Control Systems for Critical Infrastructures (Dagstuhl Seminar 14292). Report from Dagstuhl Seminars Dagstuhl Seminar 14292. Hrsg. von Marc Dacier, Frank Kargl, Hartmut König und Alfonso Valdes. Kapitel 5.4, S. 75–76.