Paper accepted
We just got a paper accepted at the WISE09. It’s on virtualization of security lab exercises based on OSS. I planning to post the paper here, once I have the print-ready version.
Automated Social Engineering PoC is out
I finished my thesis on automated social engineering via Facebook two weeks ago. More information and the thesis is available online: http://asebot.nysos.net .
I will present my work in Stockholm tomorrow and then leave to Madrid for some vacations.
An end is in sight …
I’m writing the last pages of my master’s thesis on Automated Social Engineering and should present my work soon. Once it’s done I’m also planning to post a digitial version online on my blog.
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 also during presentations.
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 Christmas at home and I’m already looking forward to attending the 25C3 in Berlin.
Time to say …
au revoir Genève!
I had a brilliant time at CERN. I could learn quite a lot and met a bunch of super-fun and fascinating people. My personal highlights included: after work editor-wars at R1, one student’s mum calling after seeing him on TV to tell him “you should shave”, one guy getting corrected on the 17th digest of PI (he calculated with some Taylor series at a party), and of course the LHC start-up.
Today I’ll go back to Austria then leave for mini-vacations to Istanbul with my beloved Ms. Fru Li and finally go back to sthlm to finish my studies.
Among all CERN celebrities (including Nobel Laureates) I chose this picture I took with alpinekat from the LHC-Rap. 
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
In my personal opinion this article is somewhat lurid; I totally question that anyone could break into LHC(island-system) or vaguely understand how the system works/could be manipulated.
Update: Although the story already seems to have disappeared from the media, an article in the German newspaper Die Zeit aptly summed up the official report of CERN – which made once again clear that solely a web server was compromised (a plain script kiddie’s site-defacement).
CERN LHC: First beam(s)
Yesterday the 10th of September 2008 thus the CERN LHC had its start-up and the first beam(s) were successfully circulating. As I’m part of the ATLAS project this summer I was in the “first-row”when the first beams were injected. We watched the transmission from the CCC, inside CERN, in the main auditorium.
This video captured the vibes within the CERN crowd quite well:
Cosmoproleten
Nach Tasia, Martin & Lorenz hat mich dieses Wochenende Fritz mit einem Kurzbesuch am CERN beehrt. Dabei kam mein neues Lieblings-Kunstwort “Cosmoprolet” zur Sprache. Zwei Videos zum besseren Verständnis (Nr. 1: der gemeine Kaisermühlner, Nr. 2: der weltgewandte Cosmoprolet )
info.cern.ch
A picture I recently took at the CERN computing center of the world’s first web server:
“This machine is a server DO NOT POWER DOWN!!”