Whoami. I am Ben, a BlackHat board member, and an infosec researcher.

I did a postdoc at Cornell Tech (hosted by Tom Ristenpart) and I hold a PhD from
The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (supervised by Yuval Elovici), on
 "Security and Privacy in the IoT Era".

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Interests. I am mostly interested in sci-fi on topics related security and privacy of systems and end users. My interests have changed throughout the years, but were mostly focused on three specific layers of systems: 

• Communication. Security and privacy of drones (SP'19, SP'21, Sensors'22), and multi-function printers (TIFS'19).

• Sensors.  Side-channel attacks for cryptanalysis (CCS'23, SP'24) and speech eavesdropping (CCS'21, USENIX Sec'22, WOOT'23, Computer'23).

• Artficial Inteligence. Security of object detectors (CCS'20, CACM'23, AISEC'23) and GenAI models. 

• Misc. Security of E2EE messaging applications (SP'24), password managers, and smartwatches (UbiComp'18, Sensors'22).

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Press. My work has been featured in Wired [1,2,3,4,5] Forbes [1,2,3], ArsTechnica, [1,2,3,4], The Wall Street Journal [1], DeepLearning.AI [1], MIT Technology Review [1], Fox News [1,2], The Mirror [1], Business Insider [1], Schneier on Security [1,2,3,4,5,6], Computerphile [1], and Two Minute Paper [1]. 
The YouTube videos I created to present my studies have been watched by ~600K viewers [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]. 

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Speaking. I am a frequent conference speaker at BlackHat (5), SecTor (4), DEFCON (3), RSAC (2), CodeBlue (2), and additional conferences (here is a YouTube playlist of my recent talks). 

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Accomplishments. In 2023, I led a group of brilliant researchers and together we won the Pwnie Award for the Best Crypto Attack 23. In 2021, we received the Best Demo Award from AutoSec'21. Three other of my studies finished as runner-ups in CSAW'19 and CSAW'20. In 2019, I presented a work of mine to Israel's President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin, and in 2018, a work of mine was presented to Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

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Personal Honors. I received the BGU Dean Award for Excellence in Ph.D. and the Mid. Way Negev-Faran Scholarship for Excellence Ph.D. Program. My Ph.D. dissertation was nominated for the SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award 2023.

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If you want to work with me on a high-profile/impact research in security and privacy, send me an email.