Manuel Karl is a PhD candidate since December 2019. His research area includes static analysis, deserialization vulnerabilities, (de-) obfuscation of code and low-level transformations of programs.
His further interests include honeypots and dynamic analysis.
Room 247
m.karl [at] tu-braunschweig.de (PGP)
0531/391-3275
Uncovering Bigger Truths: Deobfuscating PHP with Phoebe
Manuel Karl, Simon Koch, David Klein, and Martin Johns
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2025
Comma Separated Vulnerabilities: Detecting Formula Injection in the Wild
Manuel Karl, Louis Bettels, Martin Johns, and David Klein
19th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies, 2025 [BIB]
Privacy-Preserving Encoding and Scaling of Tabular Data in Horizontal Federated Learning Systems
Tim Piotrowski, Zoltán Nochta, Manuel Karl, and Martin Johns
20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), 2025 [BIB]
The Impact of Default Mobile SDK Usage on Privacy and Data Protection
Simon Koch, Manuel Karl, Robin Kirchner, Malte Wessels, Anne Paschke, and Martin Johns
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS'25), 2025 [BIB]
General Data Protection Runtime: Enforcing Transparent GDPR Compliance for Existing Applications
David Klein, Benny Rolle, Thomas Barber, Manuel Karl, Martin Johns
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2023 [BIB]
No Keys to the Kingdom Required: A Comprehensive Investigation of Missing Authentication Vulnerabilities in the Wild
Manuel Karl*, Marius Musch*, Guoli Ma, Martin Johns, and Sebastian Lekies
Proc. of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2022 [BIB]
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| Year | Semester | Name |
| 2023 | SS | Programmieren 1 |
| 2022 | WS | Einführung in die IT-Sicherheit, Hacklab, Websicherheit (Seminar) |
| 2022 | SS | SEP, Websicherheit (Seminar) |
| 2021 | WS | Hacklab, Websicherheit (Seminar) |
| 2021 | SS | Websicherheit (Seminar) |
| 2020 | WS | Websicherheit (Seminar) |
| 2020 | SS | Programmieren I, SEP, Websicherheit (Seminar) |
| 2019 | WS | Programmieren I, Anwendungssicherheit (Seminar) |