Two weeks ago 23 students from HiG formed a team to compete with 76 teams from all over the world in a contest in information security. The goal of this „Capture the flag“ competition in information security was to investigate and protect a computer system under time pressure and to exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems […]
Last week I attended D-A-CH Security 2011 to talk about inexpensive hiding of files on USB memory sticks. The presentation is based on a bachelor thesis supervised this year. The feedback received at the conference was valuable. Some attendees hinted at possible technical improvements, some found the idea „charming“ to hide files in clusters marked […]
I have always been fascinated by work places with multiple monitors. Years ago, it was expensive to have two monitors. With the decline of prices for LCD panels, two monitors became affordable for many. At my previous workplace two monitors was standard equipment for developers, and the young interns we had could not be impressed […]
Google offers a service called Page Speed Service. Its purpose is „to automatically speed up loading of your web pages.“ It fails on mine. When I used the free trial to check whether it would improve the speed of loading my personal homepage at www.hanno-langweg.de, it showed the „optimized“ version of my page to be […]
I currently have several open M.Sc. thesis topics that have not yet been reserved. If you are interested in working on one of these topics with me, get in touch. The open topics are: Privacy-respecting business intelligence in the cloud – The goal of the proposed project is to utilize cloud computing to rapidly evaluate […]
The Regional Research Fund for the Inland Region in Norway (RFFINNL) received 30 applications for qualifying research projects this year. 8 applications were accepted, 3 of those had been sent in by Høgskolen i Gjøvik, and one of them had been submitted by me (project SKYLINE). Goal of SKYLINE „Kostnadseffektiv bruk av nettskyen for små […]
About a month ago I woke up in the middle of the night. I did not realize at first why I was awake, but all of a sudden adrenaline kicked in and I recognized the sound of my smoke detector. All four of them, that is, thanks to them being connected by radio. I checked […]
Summer. It has become quiet at the college, colleagues are taking vacation, students have vanished and will return late in August. Since the Norwegian rules of paid vacation state that the amount of paid vacation depends on your earnings in the Norwegian system the year before, I will mostly be found at work this year. […]
Lately, I was alerted that all pictures on the digital camera in our home had been accidentally deleted. The last transfer of pictures from the memory card to a stationary computer had been two months ago, so there were a lot of pictures at stake. The camera had been shut down immediately when the deletion […]
This week was the deadline for most applications for funding from the Norwegian Research Council (Forskningsrådet). I was tasked with taking care of all necessary files for a larger application in our information security group. Several people had collaborated for weeks on the application, and I had made continuous re-submissions of the application to ensure […]