Daniele Lain
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Daniele Lain

Google Scholar ID: A7FdSeUAAAAJ
ETH Zurich
SecurityPrivacy
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published 'URL Inspection Tasks: Helping Users Detect Phishing Links in Emails' at USENIX Security '25.
  • Published 'Phishing Attacks against Browser Extensions of Password Managers' at USENIX Security '25.
  • Published 'Breaking Bad: How Compilers Break Constant-Time Implementations' at ACM ASIACCS '25 (Best Paper Award).
  • Published 'Content, Nudges and Incentives: A Study on the Effectiveness and Perception of Embedded Phishing Training' at ACM CCS '24 (Distinguished Paper Award).
  • Published 'On (The Lack Of) Code Confidentiality in Trusted Execution Environments' at IEEE S&P '24.
  • Published 'Phishing in Organizations: Findings from a Large-Scale and Long-Term Study' at IEEE S&P '22.
  • Multiple publications in ACM WiSec, Journal of Computer Security, ACM TOPS, and arXiv.
Background
  • Postdoctoral researcher at the System Security group, ETH Zurich.
  • Research focuses on human-centered security, including novel attacks, countermeasures, and large-scale measurements.
  • Interests include usable system design, authentication techniques, security awareness and education, user interactions with security-sensitive elements, and the impact of modern hardware/software security on future system designs.
  • Research featured at Black Hat USA and covered by Forbes, BBC, and Tom's Hardware.
  • Findings on phishing awareness training showcased in Malwarebytes and First Watch podcasts, and at Security Awareness Day '23 hosted by the Swiss national CERT.