Foundations of Web Security

Dear students,

 

The Computer Science Department of Saarland University is looking for a talented student helper who maintains the BSc application web portal (https://applications.saarland-informatics-campus.de). The paid position is 8-12 hours a week and will be filled ASAP (at least) until the end of the semester. Applicants should know PHP programming and SQL, be communicative and responsive and be available for irregular on-campus meetings. Proficiency in German is beneficial but not mandatory.

 

If you are interested, please send an email outlining your Transcripts of Records and your past experiences in Web development to Sebastian Hack (hack@cs.uni-saarland.de) at your earliest convenience. We will consider applications until Sunday, June 9th.

 

Thanks and best regards,

Sebastian Hack

Hi all,

after some feedback from one of you, I asked the study coordination to check into the missing backup exam in LSF. They told me it was now added and you should be able to sign up for the exam. If your study course does not allow for registration through CMS (e.g., Erasmus), you can now use the CMS registration (visible from your Personal Status page).

Please make sure to register at latest until October 10, 23:59. After this, registration is no longer possible.

As a reminder, the registration for the exam is due on Monday by 23:59 (either CMS or LSF). Any student not registered by that time will not be able to take part in the exam.

In addition, for next week's Q/A and exam preparation lecture, please make sure to answer on Mattermost with topics that we should cover. In order to prepare for the exam, there is also a sample exam (including solutions) available in the CMS.

For our course, we will exclusively support PyCharm for the tasks. History has shown that random deployments of Linux subsystems, zsh, and the latest version of Arch Linux lead to situations where students are stuck for all the wrong reasons :-) Therefore, our infrastructure introduction will explain the next steps of your development life as part of the Screecher team within PyCharm. 

For this to work, we ask two things if possible: install PyCharm Professional. You can get a free license from JetBrains as long as you are a student (i.e., have an email address from a recognized university, see https://www.jetbrains.com/community/education/#students). Also, while I usually appreciate your undivided attention during the Q/A sessions, feel free to bring your laptop and follow along with what we'll be showing you. 

Also note that you must login to the Gitlab once until Wednesday's lecture. Otherwise, you might not get a VM set up for you and will therefore be unable to participate in the exercises (and, thus, the exam). We will be removing students who do not actively participate in the exercises from the course. 

All other relevant information about the exercises will be shared on Wednesday (including the release of the first task). As a reminder: the lecture recording might take some time to become available, please attend live if you can. 

Hi all,

unfortunately, there was a small bug in copy/pasting the link for the Mattermost invite. If you already joined, you are now in the 2022 edition of FoWS. Please use https://cms-mattermost.cispa.de/signup_user_complete/?id=ropxbfnzzb8atp7bcaiybdtbae instead to join the 2023 edition.

Also, the recording is now available.

Thanks :)

Hi all,

we meet tomorrow at 10:15 in CISPA's lecture hall for the first lecture. Note that the lecture will not be streamed live and uploads of the videos may be delayed.

Also, I realized only today that there was a misconfiguration in the self-assessment tool, which incorrectly told students that the lecture was full. If you know anyone who is still interested in attending the lecture, feel free to let them know that there are still slots available and that the self-assessment tool has been fixed.

See you tomorrow!