Wouter Joosen

Request and conquer: exposing cross-origin resource size

2016 · Lirias

Numerous initiatives are encouraging website owners to enable and enforce TLS encryption for the communication between the server and their users. Although this encryption, when configured properly, completely prevents adversaries from disclosing the content of …

K8-scalar

2018

Although a considerable amount of research exists on auto-scaling of database clusters, the design of an effective auto-scaling strategy requires fine-grained tailoring towards the specific application scenario.

Tranco: A Research-Oriented Top Sites Ranking Hardened Against Manipulation

2019

In order to evaluate the prevalence of security and privacy practices on a representative sample of the Web, researchers rely on website popularity rankings such as the Alexa list. While the validity and representativeness of …

A framework for black-box SLO tuning of multi-tenant applications in Kubernetes

2019

Resource management concepts of container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes can be used to achieve multi-tenancy with quality of service differentiation between tenants. However, to support cost-effective enforcement of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) about response …

Towards Automated Security Design Flaw Detection

2019

Efficiency of security-by-design has become an important goal for organizations implementing software engineering practices such as Agile, DevOps, and Continuous Integration. Software architectures are (often manually) analyzed at design time for potential security design flaws, …

Masterkey attacks against free-text keystroke dynamics and security implications of demographic factors

2023

This paper presents and systematically evaluates the first masterkey attack against free-text keystroke dynamics. A masterkey is a typing sequence that matches, hence successfully impersonates, a large part of the population. Therefore, masterkeys are effective …

Analyzing Cyber Security Research Practices through a Meta-Research Framework

2023

Sound research practices are the foundation of valid, reliable, and trustworthy research results. The discipline of meta-research critically evaluates research practices and proposes new methods to improve and refine the way in which research is …

SAPlugin: Management and Extraction of Software Architecture Descriptions in Visual Paradigm

2025

The design and documentation of software architectures involves substantial and non-trivial modeling effort, especially when relying on multiple complementary views that have to accurately and consistently depict complementary architectural concerns. This problem is exacerbated for …