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Dr. Vladislav Mladenov

Vladislav Mladenov works as a security researcher at the Chair of Network and Data Security at the Ruhr University Bochum since 2012. In his dissertation he analyzed the security of Single Sign-On protocols such as SAML 2.0, OpenID, OpenID Connect and OAuth and discovered various vulnerabilities. After completing his doctorate Vladislav Mladenov works as a PostDoc and additionally devotes his attention to the security of data description languages, e.g. JSON, XML and PostScript. Since 2018, Mr. Mladenov focused his research on the security of office documents and recently published several attacks on PDFs.

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Dr. Vladislav Mladenov's Publications

Presentation April 21, 2022
Assumed to be secure for 15 years, our talk reveals what could go wrong while a PDF document is being … Read more
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