Mattia Mossano, M.Sc. M.A.
- Research Assistant
- Room: 3A-28
CS 5.20 - Phone: +49 721 608-46038
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Curriculum vitae
Mattia Mossano has been working at SECUSO as a research assistant since December 2019. Before KIT, he completed his Master in Cognitive Science at the School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh. His thesis dealt with the study of general advice against phishing attacks found on various public websites. He also wrote a Master thesis in Philosophy at the University of Genoa, criticizing the use of evolutionary algorithms to generate general AIs.
Research interests
- Anti-phishing training
- User awareness material
- URL readability enhancement
- Accessible cybersecurity
Teaching
2025
- Organiser SECUSO Research Seminar
- WiSe: Praktikum "Security, Usability, and Society"
2024
- Organiser SECUSO Research Seminar
- WiSe: Praktikum "Security, Usability, and Society"
- SoSe: Praktikum "Security, Usability, and Society"
2023
- Organiser SECUSO Research Seminar
- WiSe: Praktikum "Security, Usability and Society"
2022
- Organiser SECUSO Research Seminar
- SoSe: Praktikum "Security, Usability and Society"
2021
- Organiser SECUSO Research Seminar
- WiSe: Praktikum "Security, Usability and Society"
- SoSe: Praktikum "Security, Usability and Society"
2020
- Organiser SECUSO Research Seminar
- SoSe: Praktikum "Security, Usability and Society"
Co-supervision
Bachelor Thesis
- Marius Weigand (supervised by Prof. Dr Melanie Volkamer and Mattia Mossano) Evaluation of Usable PIN Pad for Users with Rheumatoid Arthritis (October 2024)
- Matthias Teuber (supervised by Prof. Dr. Andreas Oberweis, Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer, Dr-Ing. Gunther Schiefer and Mattia Mossano): Usability study of mobile authentication for elderly users with rheumatoid arthritis (August 2023)
- Rozalina Doneva (supervised by Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer, Prof. Dr. Jörn Müller-Quade and Mattia Mossano): Development and Evaluation of Interventions to Motivate Users to Take Security Protection Measures (May 2020)
Scientific Services
PC member
- WASP 2024
Reviewing activities
- CHI 2025
- EuroUSEC 2024
- WASP 2024
- CHI 2024
- EuroUSEC 2024
- CHI 2023
- TOPS 2022
- ARES 2022
- EuroUSEC 2020
Talks
SMILE4VIP: Intervention to Support Visually Impaired Users Against Phishing
Workshop on Accessible Security & Privacy (WASP) - Vienna, Austria
12th July 2024
Literature Review: Misconceptions about Phishing
IFIP International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA) - Skövde, Sweden
10th July 2024
Exploring Phishing Threats through QR Codes in Naturalistic Settings
Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) - San Diego, USA
26th February 2024
Influence of URL Formatting on Users' Phishing URL Detection
European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC) - Copenhagen, Denmark
17th October 2023
An Introduction to Phishing through Research Results
Guest lecture in the course "Usable Security and Privacy" of the University of Paderborn, germany
4th July 2023
Design and Evaluation of an Anti-Phishing Artifact Based on Useful Transparency
International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security (STAST) - Copenhagen, Denmark
29th September 2022
Security and Privacy for Everyone
DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH - Online
31st March 2022
Security and Privacy for Everyone
Nacht der Wissenschaft - Online
26th November 2021
SMILE - Smart eMaIl Link domain Extractor
Security, Privacy, Organizations, and Systems Engineering (SPOSE) - Online
8th October 2021
Analysis of publicly available anti-phishing webpages: contradicting information, lack of concrete advice and very narrow attack vector
European Workshop on Usable Security (EuroUSEC) - Online
7th September 2020
Publications
Mossano, M.; Volkamer, M.
2025. Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance : 18th IFIP WG 11.12 International Symposium, HAISA 2024, Skövde, Sweden, July 9–11, 2024, Proceedings, Part I, 215–228, Springer Nature Switzerland. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-72559-3
Bohlender, M.; Morisco, R.; Mossano, M.; Schwarz, T.; Volkamer, M.
2024. 2024 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Vienna, 8th-12th July 2024, 650 – 657, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/EuroSPW61312.2024.00079
Berens, B. M.; Schaub, F.; Mossano, M.; Volkamer, M.
2024. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–60, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3613904.3642843
Sharevski, F.; Mossano, M.; Veit, M. F.; Schiefer, G.; Volkamer, M.
2024. Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) 2024. doi:10.14722/usec.2024.23050
Berens, B. M.; Mossano, M.; Volkamer, M.
2024. Computers & Security, 137, Art.-Nr.: 103620. doi:10.1016/j.cose.2023.103620
Mossano, M.; Kulyk, O.; Berens, B. M.; Häußler, E. M.; Volkamer, M.
2023. Proceedings of the 2023 European Symposium on Usable Security, 318–333, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3617072.3617111
Dietmann, H.; Länge, T.; Matheis, P.; Pawelek, A. A.; Berens, B.; Mossano, M.; Veit, M.; Mayer, P.; Volkamer, M.
2022. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi:10.5445/IR/1000153329
Dietmann, H.; Länge, T.; Matheis, P.; Pawelek, A. A.; Berens, B.; Mossano, M.; Veit, M.; Mayer, P.; Volkamer, M.
2022, December 8. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2022), Austin, TX, USA, December 5–9, 2022
Beckmann, C.; Berens, B.; Kühl, N.; Mayer, P.; Mossano, M.; Volkamer, M.
2025. Socio-Technical Aspects in Security: 12th International Workshop, STAST 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 29, 2022, Revised Selected Papers. Ed.: M. Mehrnezhad, 113–133, Springer Nature Switzerland. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-83072-3_7
Mossano, M.; Berens, B.; Heller, P.; Beckmann, C.; Aldag, L.; Mayer, P.; Volkamer, M.
2022. Computer Security. ESORICS 2021 International Workshops – CyberICPS, SECPRE, ADIoT, SPOSE, CPS4CIP, and CDT&SECOMANE, Darmstadt, Germany, October 4–8, 2021, Revised Selected Papers. Ed.: S. Katsikas, 403–412, Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-95484-0_23
Berens, B. M.; Dimitrova, K.; Mossano, M.; Volkamer, M.
2022. Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC), co-located with the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2022), San Diego, CA, April 23, 2022. doi:10.14722/usec.2022.23075
Aldag, L.; Renaud, K.; Berens, B.; Düzgün, R.; Mossano, M.; Volkamer, M.
2020. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi:10.5445/IR/1000137542
Duezguen, R.; Mayer, P.; Berens, B.; Beckmann, C.; Aldag, L.; Mossano, M.; Volkamer, M.; Strufe, T.
2021. 20th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 18 - 20 Augus 2021, Shenyang, China, 997–1004, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/TrustCom53373.2021.00138
Mossano, M.; Vaniea, K.; Aldag, L.; Düzgün, R.; Mayer, P.; Volkamer, M.
2020. IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2020, (EuroS&PW) - The 5th European Workshop on Usable Security, September 7, 2020, Online (ursprünglich: June 15, 2020, Genova, Italy), 130–139, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/EuroSPW51379.2020.00026
Reinheimer, B. M.; Aldag, L.; Mayer, P.; Mossano, M.; Düzgün, R.; Lofthouse, B.; Landesberger, T. von; Volkamer, M.
2020. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2020) : August 10-11, 2020, 259–284, Advanced Computing Systems Association (USENIX)
Mossano, M.; Vaniea, K.; Aldag, L.; Düzgün, R.; Mayer, P.; Volkamer, M.
2020, June 25. doi:10.5445/IR/1000120357