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  1. Internet Censorship’s Implications on Academic Research: Motivating an Academic Accessibility by Design

    Article • Communications of the ACM, August 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Dr. Steffen Wendzel, Martin Baumann, Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel, Julia Lenz

  2. Optimized DYST-Like Amplification Covert Channel

    Article • August 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  3. A Warden to Analyze and Counter Stegomalware Activities

    Article • August 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  4. AdullamoT: Using IoT Devices as Relays for Time-decoupled Secret Exchange & Censorship Circumvention

    Article • June 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  5. History covert channels with relative timing pointers: Design, error resilience, and detectability

    Article • Journal of Information Security and Applications, June 2026, Elsevier

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  6. Steganography in the QUIC Communication Protocol

    Article • JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science, February 2026, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  7. AMPhitryon: Efficient Small Data Compression for Low-Bandwidth Covert Channels

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  8. A Survey of Internet Censorship and its Measurement: Methodology, Trends, and Challenges

    Article • Computers & Security, October 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  9. Identifying Overlapping Ideas and Concepts of Methods that Hide Information

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, April 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Christian Kraetzer, Sebastian Zillien, Prof. Dr. Steffen Wendzel, Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  10. Development of the trigger-controlling system for the proton computed tomography prototype

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, March 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  11. Combining Different Existing Methods for Describing Steganography Hiding Methods

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Christian Kraetzer, Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  12. Domainator: Detecting and Identifying DNS-Tunneling Malware Using Metadata Sequences

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  13. DYST (Did You See That?): An Amplified Covert Channel That Points To Previously Seen Data

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, January 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  14. Editorial: Fighting Cybersecurity Risks from a Multidisciplinary Perspective

    Article • JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science, September 2024, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  15. Analysis of network traffic hiding techniques in modern malware (computer viruses)

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel, Tobias Schmidbauer, Fabian Strachanski

  16. Robust and Homomorphic Covert Channels in Streams of Numeric Data

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  17. A Case Study on the Detection of Hash-Chain-based Covert Channels Using Heuristics and Machine Learning

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel, Jeff Schymiczek, Tobias Schmidbauer

  18. Look What’s There! Utilizing the Internet’s Existing Data for Censorship Circumvention with OPPRESSION

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sebastian Zillien, Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  19. Exploration of differentiability in a proton computed tomography simulation framework

    Article • Physics in Medicine and Biology, December 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  20. Power Consumption Analysis as a Detection Indicator for Cyberattacks on Smart Home Devices

    Article • December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  21. Towards Neural Charged Particle Tracking in Digital Tracking Calorimeters With Reinforcement Learning

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, December 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  22. Weaknesses of Popular and Recent Covert Channel Detection Methods and a Remedy

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, November 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  23. Uncertainty-aware spot rejection rate as quality metric for proton therapy using a digital tracking calorimeter

    Article • Physics in Medicine and Biology, September 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  24. Why people replace their aging smart devices: A push–pull–mooring perspective

    Article • Computers & Security, July 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  25. The Bergen proton CT system

    Article • Journal of Instrumentation, February 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  26. Towards Neural Charged Particle Tracking in Digital Tracking Calorimeters with Reinforcement Learning

    Article • January 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  27. Avoiding Research Tribal Wars Using Taxonomies

    Article • Computer, January 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  28. Challenging Channels: Encrypted Covert Channels within Challenge-Response Authentication

    Article • August 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  29. A Generic Taxonomy for Steganography Methods

    Article • July 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Christian Kraetzer, Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  30. A Generic Taxonomy for Steganography Methods

    Article • July 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Christian Kraetzer, Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  31. A Generic Taxonomy for Steganography Methods

    Article • July 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Christian Kraetzer, Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  32. Towards Passive Identification of Aged Android Devices in the Home Network

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  33. Steganography Hiding Patterns: A Brief Review

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  34. SoK

    Article • May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  35. Guest editorial: Information security methodology and replication studies

    Article • it - Information Technology, April 2022, De Gruyter

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  36. Emerging topics in defending networked systems

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, March 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  37. Information Hiding in the DICOM Message Service and Upper Layer Service with Entropy-Based Detection

    Article • Entropy, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  38. Analysis of Reversible Network Covert Channels

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  39. Security and Privacy Issues of Home Globalization

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  40. Detection of Anomalous Values within TIA Project Data History for Industrial Control Systems

    Article • November 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  41. How Feasible are Steganographic and Stealth Attacks on TIA Project Metadata of ICS: A Case Study with Real-world Data

    Article • November 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  42. Reset- and Reconnection-based Covert Channels in CoAP

    Article • November 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel, Sebastian Zillien

  43. Risks and Opportunities for Information Hiding in DICOM Standard

    Article • August 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  44. A Revised Taxonomy of Steganography Embedding Patterns

    Article • August 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel, Dr. Christian Kraetzer

  45. Hunting Shadows: Towards Packet Runtime-based Detection Of Computational Intensive Reversible Covert Channels

    Article • August 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  46. Crème de la Crème: Lessons from Papers in Security Publications

    Article • August 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  47. Investigating particle track topology for range telescopes in particle radiography using convolutional neural networks

    Article • Acta Oncologica, July 2021, Acta Dermato-Venereologica

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  48. Comprehensive analysis of MQTT 5.0 susceptibility to network covert channels

    Article • Computers & Security, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  49. Reversible and Plausibly Deniable Covert Channels in One-Time Passwords Based on Hash Chains

    Article • Applied Sciences, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  50. Reconnection-Based Covert Channels in Wireless Networks

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sebastian Zillien, Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  51. IT-Sicherheit für TCP/IP- und IoT-Netzwerke

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  52. Anomaly Detection in ICS based on Data-history Analysis

    Article • November 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  53. Covert Channels in One-Time Passwords Based on Hash Chains

    Article • November 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  54. Covert storage caches using the NTP protocol

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  55. Design and performance evaluation of reversible network covert channels

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  56. Information Security Methodology, Replication Studies and Information Security Education

    Article • JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science, July 2020, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  57. Guest Editorial: Recent Advances in Cyber-Physical Security in Industrial Environments

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, December 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  58. Not all areas are equal: analysis of citations in information security research

    Article • Scientometrics, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  59. Introducing Dead Drops to Network Steganography using ARP-Caches and SNMP-Walks

    Article • August 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  60. Towards Reversible Storage Network Covert Channels

    Article • August 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  61. Protocol-independent Detection of "Messaging Ordering" Network Covert Channels

    Article • August 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  62. Countering adaptive network covert communication with dynamic wardens

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, May 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  63. Covert Channels in the MQTT-Based Internet of Things

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  64. Recent Advancements in Digital Forensics, Part 2

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, January 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  65. One Countermeasure, Multiple Patterns

    Article • November 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  66. Towards Deriving Insights into Data Hiding Methods Using Pattern-based Approach

    Article • August 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  67. Get Me Cited, Scotty!

    Article • August 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  68. The New Threats of Information Hiding: The Road Ahead

    Article • IT Professional, May 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  69. Emerging and Unconventional: New Attacks and Innovative Detection Techniques

    Article • Security and Communication Networks, January 2018, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel, Sebastian Zander

  70. Detection of Covert Channels in TCP Retransmissions

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel, Sebastian Zillien

  71. IT-Sicherheit für TCP/IP- und IoT-Netzwerke

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  72. Information hiding

    Article • Communications of the ACM, December 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  73. Recent Advancements in Digital Forensics

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, November 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  74. The Future of Digital Forensics: Challenges and the Road Ahead

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, November 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  75. Cyber Security of Smart Buildings

    Article • October 2017, Wiley

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  76. Inter-Protocol Steganography for Real-Time Services and Its Detection Using Traffic Coloring Approach

    Article • October 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  77. Ant Colony-Inspired Parallel Algorithm to Improve Cryptographic Pseudo Random Number Generators

    Article • May 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  78. Don’t You Touch My Nuts: Information Hiding in Cyber Physical Systems

    Article • May 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  79. Network Information Hiding and Science 2.0: Can it be a Match?

    Article • January 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  80. Enhanced Ant Colony-Inspired ParallelAlgorithm to Improve Cryptographic PRNGs

    Article • Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility, January 2017, River Publishers

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  81. Steganography for Cyber-physicalSystems

    Article • Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility, January 2017, River Publishers

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  82. POSTER

    Article • October 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  83. IoT Security: The Improvement-Decelerating 'Cycle of Blame'

    Article • September 2016, River Publishers

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  84. Micro protocol engineering for unstructured carriers: on the embedding of steganographic control protocols into audio transmissions

    Article • Security and Communication Networks, June 2016, Wiley

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  85. How to increase the security of smart buildings?

    Article • Communications of the ACM, April 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  86. Covert channel-internal control protocols: attacks and defense

    Article • Security and Communication Networks, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  87. Information Hiding in Communication Networks: Fundamentals, Mechanisms, Applications, and Countermeasures

    Article • February 2016, Wiley

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  88. Countermeasures for Covert Channel-Internal Control Protocols

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  89. Pattern-Based Survey and Categorization of Network Covert Channel Techniques

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, April 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  90. Analysis of Human Awareness of Security and Privacy Threats in Smart Environments

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  91. Securing BACnet’s Pitfalls

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  92. Visualizing BACnet Data to Facilitate Humans in Building-Security Decision-Making

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  93. “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”: Evaluation of Wi-Fi Steganography

    Article • Journal of Communications, January 2015, Engineering and Technology Publishing

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  94. On importance of steganographic cost for network steganography

    Article • Security and Communication Networks, August 2014, Wiley

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  95. Hidden and under control

    Article • Annals of Telecommunications, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  96. Hidden and Uncontrolled – On the Emergence of Network Steganographic Threats

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  97. IT-gestütztes Management und Controlling

    Article • Controlling, January 2014, Verlag Franz Vahlen GmbH

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  98. Hiding Privacy Leaks in Android Applications Using Low-Attention Raising Covert Channels

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  99. Covert Channels and Their Prevention in Building Automation Protocols: A Prototype Exemplified Using BACnet

    Article • November 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  100. Detecting protocol switching covert channels

    Article • October 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  101. Covert and side channels in buildings and the prototype of a building-aware active warden

    Article • June 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  102. Einführung

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  103. Fortgeschrittene Themen für verdeckte Kanäle

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  104. Geheimes Tunneling

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  105. Grundlagen verdeckter Kanäle

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  106. Prävention und Detektion verdeckter Kanäle

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  107. Systematic Engineering of Control Protocols for Covert Channels

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  108. TCP/IP-Grundlagen für das Tunneling

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  109. Tunnel und verdeckte Kanäle im Netz

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  110. Tunneling-Protokolle

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  111. A secure interoperable architecture for building-automation applications

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel

  112. Low-Attention Forwarding for Mobile Network Covert Channels

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. habil. Steffen Wendzel