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25c3 security

25C3

Attending the Chaos Communication Congress for the first time this year, I must say it’s rather exciting so far. The presentations have been outstanding, especially the one by Jacob Appelbaum on the Cold Boot Attack, and TCP Denial of Service Vulnerabilities by Fabian Yamaguchi. Vienna seems to be well represented here in Berlin, with Metalab […]

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random security

Small update

Time is passing by fast. After my last trips in to Copenhagen, Brussels, and Tallinn – it’s my last week at the DSV Seclab in Stockholm. At the moment I’m working on my master’s thesis and also on solving the fun time-consuming security challenges of Advanced Internet Security at TU Vienna. Now it’s time for […]

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CERN security

LHC-CMS hacked?

“The Telegraph reports that Greek hackers were able to gain momentary access to a CERN computer system of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) while the first particles were zipping around the particle accelerator on September 10th. “ With all this nonsense about the LHC right now, this article is not a big surprise: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/12/1657211 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/12/scicern312.xml&page=1 […]