Ben Stock studied for his Bachelor at the University of Mannheim and
advanced to Technische Universität Darmstadt to graduate with a Master's
degree in IT security. His earlier work was mainly in the area of malware
and his Bachelor thesis on the Waledac botnet was awarded the CAST e.V.
award for best IT security thesis in 2010. He also played a key role in
the takedown of the Waledac botnet nowadays known as Microsoft operation
b49. His Master's thesis focussed on implementing a tool capable to
analysing Web pages for DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities.
Since 2013, he is a doctoral candidate at the University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg, focussing on Web security.