About Me
I'm a security researcher who spent most of his academic life at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. Previously I was working for the University of Birmingham, UK and since 2017, I'm at the University of Twente.
Expertise
Engineering & Materials Science
# Biostatistics
# Cordless Telephones
# Cryptography
# Digital Video Broadcasting (Dvb)
# Hardware Security
# Personalized Medicine
# Radio Stations
Mathematics
# Automation
Organisations
Research
I'm currently interested in:
- The Internet of Things
- Privacy preserving technologies and the World Wide Web
- Applied Cryptanalysis including side channel attacks
- Railway signalling systems
- Security of critical infrastructures
- Security of wireless protocols
Publications
Recent
Meurs, T., Cartwright, E., Cartwright, A.
, Junger, M.
, Hoheisel, R.
, Tews, E.
, & Abhishta, A. (2023).
Ransomware Economics: A Two-Step Approach To Model Ransom Paid. In
Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, eCrime 2023 Advance online publication.
Meurs, T.
, Junger, M.
, Tews, E.
, & Abhishta, A. (2022).
NAS-ransomware: Hoe ransomware-aanvallen tegen NAS-apparaten verschillen van reguliere ransomware-aanvallen.
Tijdschrift voor veiligheid,
21(3-4), 69-88. Article 21.
https://doi.org/10.5553/TvV/.000044
Meurs, T.
, Junger, M.
, Abhishta, A.
, Tews, E., & Ratia, E. (2022).
COORDINATE: A model to analyse the benefits and costs of coordinating cybercrime.
Journal of internet services and information security,
12(4).
https://doi.org/10.58346/JISIS.2022.I4.001
Meurs, T.
, Junger, M.
, Tews, E.
, & Abhishta, A. (2022).
Ransomware: How attacker's effort, victim characteristics and context influence ransom requested, payment and financial loss. In
Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, eCrime 2022
Meurs, T.
, Junger, M.
, Abhishta, A.
, & Tews, E. (2022).
How Attackers Determine the Ransom in Ransomware Attacks. In
7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P 2022) ResearchGate.
https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.34435.58400
Koop, M.
, Tews, E., & Katzenbeisser, S. (2020).
In-depth evaluation of redirect tracking and link usage.
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies,
2020(4), 394-413.
https://doi.org/10.2478/popets-2020-0079
Weller, M., Classen, J., Ullrich, F., Waßmann, D.
, & Tews, E. (2020).
Lost and found: Stopping bluetooth finders from leaking private information. In
WiSec 2020 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (pp. 184-194). Association for Computing Machinery.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3395351.3399422
Esquivel-Vargas, H., Caselli, M.
, Tews, E.
, Bucur, D.
, & Peter, A. (2019).
BACRank: Ranking building automation and control system components by business continuity impact. In A. Romanovsky, E. Troubitsyna, & F. Bitsch (Eds.),
Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security: 38th International Conference, SAFECOMP 2019, Proceedings (pp. 183-199). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 11698). Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26601-1_13
UT Research Information System
Google Scholar Link
Education
I'm currently teaching Operating Systems for BSc students as well as Systems Security for MSc students.
Courses Academic Year 2023/2024
Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
Courses Academic Year 2022/2023
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Zilverling
(building no. 11), room 2027
Hallenweg 19
7522NH Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Zilverling
2027
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands