Three student teams took part in international hacking competition, all finished quite well 

For 48 hours in October about 50 students from HiG formed a team to compete with 580 teams from all over the world in a contest in information security (hack.lu CTF). The goal of this „Capture the flag“ competition in information security was to solve several practical information security challenges, comprising web application vulnerabilities, SQL […]

Traveled faster than my suitcase 

Eight years after my plane was diverted from Iceland to Scotland in bad weather, causing my suitcase to be left behind and arriving late, it happened again. I had been on a trip to Tromsø, about 2,500 km or 4 hours air travel time from Konstanz. The plane from ZRH to OSL had been delayed […]

New team project on a trusted path for smart cards 

Thirteen years ago I extended an approach proposed by Balacheff, added a trusted platform module (new at that time), and applied the approach to electronic signature creation. The idea was to enable a smart card to determine whether it could trust the machine it communicated with and use it as an execution environment for its […]

Extending my teaching portfolio 

This semester, I will teach three classes: Software Security in the Bachelor in Information Security at HiG, Introduction to Programming in the Bachelor in Information Systems at HTWG Konstanz, and IT Security in the Master in Computer Science programme at HTWG Konstanz. Software Security is a class I had been teaching since 2011. The topics […]

Storage is supposed to be cheap today, so why are applications so stingy? 

Is has been so for a long time: You could never have enough storage on a computer. And when you ran out of budget, you could wait a year, and the same amount of storage would cost you less. Companies would charge a premium for non-consumer storage, e.g. when you called IBM to install a […]

Samme hvor i verden du bor så lenge du kan se Mjøsa 

Wie jede Blüte welkt und jede Jugend Dem Alter weicht, blüht jede Lebensstufe, Blüht jede Weisheit auch und jede Tugend Zu ihrer Zeit und darf nicht ewig dauern. Es muß das Herz bei jedem Lebensrufe Bereit zum Abschied sein und Neubeginne, Um sich in Tapferkeit und ohne Trauern In andre, neue Bindungen zu geben. Und […]

CCIS Center for Cyber and Information Security at Gjøvik University College opens today 

Researchers, managers, and other experts in information security gather today to officially celebrate the opening of CCIS, the Center for Cyber and Information Security at HiG. CCIS comprises partners from energy, defence, academia, public administration, police, IT consulting, and telecommunications. The centre will undertake actions towards: Building research capacity and research groups at top level […]

I almost got to inbox zero 

As regards email I am a filer (I have kept almost all emails that I received and sent since I started using email almost twenty years ago, and it is all sorted in folders in one way or the other). I was told by our IT department that I am one of the employees with the […]

Two papers accepted at JISIC 2014 

I am the co-author of two papers that got accepted for presentation at JISIC/EISIC, the Joint Conference in Intelligence Security Informatics, held in The Hague, the Netherlands, in September this year: Yi-Ching Liao and Hanno Langweg: „Resource-based Event Reconstruction of Digital Crime Scenes“ – that paper is part of Yi-Ching’s Ph.D. project on process tracking […]

COINS supports the Ph.D. movie sequel kickstarter project 

The PHD Movie 2: Still in Grad School http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1831998591/the-phd-movie-2-still-in-grad-school