I currently have several open M.Sc. thesis topics that have not yet been reserved. OOXML Forensic Analysis Tool – The goal of the proposed project is to develop a tool that supports a forensic analyst in exploring OOXML documents (docx, xlsx, pptx). Microsoft Office Word documents are stored in the DOCX file format (from version […]
Too late for bachelor students (they had to submit on May 23rd), but in time for master students (who submit by the end of June): please read your thesis before you submit it. One of the theses submitted this year obviously had comments and change tracking enabled. This is a good thing, especially when you […]
This week, I refactored parts of a group programming project that had been completed last year. Browsing the source code, looking for opportunities to polish and slightly enhance the program, I had several moments of „what the f… is this?“ There is even a web site dedicated to WTF moments. I will share an example […]
The week before Christmas break. It has become quiet at the college, colleagues are decreasing their time balance, students have vanished after their exams and will return in January. I log my time at work using TimePanic. Looking back at hours logged in 2011, I worked 1,921 hours, mostly at the office. I spent 43% […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
I offer several topics for M.Sc. students in our Master in Information Security programme, most of them in cooperation with industrial partners. Here are six topics I presented at our internal seminar last week: Survey of Trusted Path and Logging+Audit Support in Operating Systems Cross-Platform Evaluation of App Hardening Security Architecture of a Home Automation […]
There seems to be a breakthrough for the students I supervise on their bachelor thesis. They have been able to modify contents of a USB memory stick by directly accessing the data stored in sectors. It has taken a while for them to learn, but after thoroughly studying specifications and MSDN documentation, they managed to do […]
I wanted to get better prepared for teaching than only counting on experience gained on the job. Hence, I attended a seminar on college pedagogy this week. There will be more events over the course of this year, and there will even be an exam at the end. Teachers are not treated different from students… My first impression […]