Foundations of Cyber Security II Michael Schwarz

Hello all,

you should now be able to see the results of all 12 Exercise Sheets and with that whether or not you reached 120 points, i.e., are admitted to the exam. You can find these information on your Personal Page in the CMS.

Please do not forget to register for the exam in the LSF/HISPOS!

We wish you a nice weekend!

Hello all,

as we have our last tutorials in this week and we did not discuss Exercise Sheet 11 and 12, this week is organized different.

Exercise Sheet 11 will be discussed this Wednesday in Max' tutorial.

Exercise Sheet 12 will be discussed this Friday in Luc's and Florian's tutorials.

Hence, we recommend you to join more than one tutorial this week. You can find the Zoom links for the tutorials in the Materials Section of the CMS.

Do not forget that these tutorials also offer a very good opportunity to ask questions to tutors before the exam.

Hi, 

the date of the exam is getting closer, only 1 month to go. Some details regarding the exams:

• The exam is on Friday, 06.08.2021 14:00 in E2 2, Günter-Hotz-Hörsaal
• The backup exam is on Tuesday, 28.09.2021 14:00 in E2 5 HS I
• Do not forget to register for the exam in LSF!
• Remember: you need >=50% of the exercise-sheet points to be admitted to the exam.
• The lecture-challenge system closes on 05.08.2021 23:59, until then you can collect bonus points for the exam. If you did not register with your student mail address, you have to write your username on the exam sheet to get the points!
• You are allowed to bring a DIN A4 double-sided handwritten cheat sheet containing your name, but no other materials or tools
• To get a feeling how the exams looks like, I've uploaded a demo exam to the Materials section

Cheers,
Michael

Hello,

as already mentioned in the lecture and in the tutorials, we really encourage you to fill out the course evaluation in case you haven't so far.

As we expect the results of the evaluation a few weeks after the forms have closed, it is unsure how much these results will influence this years iteration. However, your opinions will definitely form the shape of the next iterations of Cysec2.

Hence, we are really thankful for your opinions such that we can improve this course for your fellow students in future iterations.

PS: The evaluation forms are available in the General tab of the Materials section and you are able to fill them out until July 15.

Hi, 

we had some huge technical issues today with the lecture stream - it seems OBS doesn't like it if I talk about finding bugs ;) Therefore, the stream ends at "Symbolic Execution". I've now switched to a different streaming setup. I hope the 48 GB RAM and 8 cores are now enough for OBS, fingers crossed. 

I will continue streaming the lecture from "Symbolic Execution" today at 4pm (in roughly 15 minutes). I can fully understand if you won't watch it live, as this is not the usual timeslot. However, as the stream is online anyway, that should hopefully only be a slight inconvenience. 

Sorry again, and hope to still see some of you in the stream asking questions,
Michael

Hello all,

as tomorrow is a public holiday, there will be no lecture. Hence, as you may have already seen, Exercise Sheet 6 is due by next Wednesday.

Still, as Exercise Sheet 6 is significant work, we hope that most of you already started working on the sheet. If not, we strongly recommend you to start soon.

Happy Holiday!

Hello,

we observed that some of your submission contained empty PDF forms. We think that these were not intentional empty but that your PDF renderer had problems writing to (or saving) the forms on the sheet.
As we do not like giving 0 points to students due to technical problems, we decided to re-open the submission until 11:59am tomorrow. Please make sure that the PDF contains your answer.

To double-check you could, e.g., download your submission from the CMS again and check whether the file still contains your answers. It is also often helpful to use the Print-As-File function of your PDF renderer and print the submission again as a PDF.

PS: This does not mean that all your submissions must use the PDF forms. Feel free to submit other styles of solutions as long as they are readable.

Hello,

we did enable the preference selection for tutorial slots in the CMS while we also communicated that you can freely choose your tutorial slot. This led to some confusion regarding whether the preference selection means students can not visit any arbitrary tutorial. First, we apologize for any confusion caused by this.

Second, as we observed that many of you prefer the same tutorial slot, we now have assigned you all to one specific tutorial slot. We encourage you to visit your assigned tutorial slot as a balanced number of students per tutorial leads to a better learning atmosphere.

However, we want to stick to our word and do not want to force you. Hence, if the assigned time slot does not fit into your schedule, you can change your tutorial slot on your own [1] and visit the slot that fits better.

If you have any questions regarding this, feel free to ask via our forum.

[1]: You can change your tutorial slot on your personal page.

Hello,

this is a kind reminder that you need to finish setting up your team in the CMS by the end of today. These teams are then fixed for the first submission. Afterward, the submission phase opens.

This scheme will most likely* be continued for the rest of the semester. Hence, you can switch your team partner for every submission.

*: Of course, we will change this scheme if we observe major obstacles using it.

Hello,

we know that it is very hard to stay in touch with or even meet fellow students in these times.
Hence, below you will find a link to a Discord server (UdS SOFA) which has a large userbase and is hosted purely by other students.
Note, that this is completely inofficial and we, the Cysec2 team, are not moderating this server in any form.
Joining this Discord server is an optional offer and is not mandatory to pass this course.

Link to the Discord server: https://discord.gg/y9kjKy7d

Hello and welcome everyone registered for this course!

The first lecture starts tomorrow at 2 pm (sharp) on YouTube. The link to the stream can be found on the Materials page. The stream is unlisted, so please don't share it outside of this lecture. 

Cheers,
Michael Schwarz