For 48 hours this week, around 50 students from HiG formed a team to compete with 707 teams from all over the world in a contest in applied 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, […]
Earlier this year, I supervised a group of students on their bachelor thesis. They developed a key logger to advance research in behavioural biometrics. Now they won the Eureka prize for best bachelor thesis at HiG. Congratulations, Magnus, Robin and Lasse!
This semester, I am going to teach IMT3501 Software Security for the third time. I update the course every year, and this year I managed to be ahead with updates almost one semester, i.e. I have updated almost all teaching materials by the start of the semester. Some of the changes for this year: More […]
Continuous integration is a concept that has gained widespread traction in software development. I consider it useful in other contexts, too. I recommend to master students and doctoral students I supervise to start with a blank thesis document the first day they embark on their project. That way, they will always have a thesis they […]
I currently have several open master thesis topics that have not yet been reserved. A TPM-Supported Trusted Path for a Smart Card – The goal of the proposed project is to combine several existing ideas and prototypes into an innovative solution to extend the trusted computing base from a smart card to peripheral devices. Read […]
I supervised a group of bachelor students this year who developed a key logger as their bachelor thesis. „BeLT“ stands for „Behaviour Logging Tool“ and comprises key logging, mouse logging, and application usage logging, together with local storage, secure network transmission and safe storage for further processing. This project is a cooperation between behavioral biometrics […]
If you are a woman considering information security as a choice for your bachelor degree, continue reading. Here is what I suggest: Take part in the Security Divas 2013 conference. This event has information security as its main topic and spans from social media, communication, risk analysis to mobile devices and massive attacks on banking […]
I gave a talk on our bachelor in information security programme this week. The college had invited 400 pupils who are about to finish school and may apply for our bachelor programmes next spring. Putting together a presentation, I realized once again how many events related to information security there are and how much HiG/NISlab […]
For 48 hours this week almost 40 students from HiG formed a team to compete with 575 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, cookie […]
NISlab, the information security research group at HiG, started ca. ten years ago. The exact date is debatable, so we decided to celebrate in the autumn of 2012. Coincidentally, this is also European Cyber Security Month. A lot has happened since then. The department of forestry ceased its activity at the Brandbu campus and funds […]