Security

Dear students,

• The MiniCTF competition has finished. Final standings are:

  • 🏆 Ich hoffe wir können den Namen noch ändern
  • 🥈 U+039F
  • 🥉 Dionysus

  In total, 8 teams reached the full 10 points. Congratulations!

• The points for the MiniCTF and challenge stability should now be visible on your personal status page. If you reached half of the points (30 points) in the overall lecture, you are admitted to the exam.

• You have to register for the exam in LSF until 01.03. to be able to participate in the exam. If your study course does not support LSF please register on the platform for your course and in our CMS system (on your personal status page) until 01.03.

• We will offer an exam preparation tutorial on the 16.02 at 14:15-16:00. In this slot, we will present some tips and tricks for the exam, talk about typical mistakes as well as give the opportunity to ask questions.

The MiniCTF has officially started! You can start solving challenges at https://minictf.scy-phy.net/! Each challenge will yield 2 points that count towards your admission for the exam (except for the challenge your team submitted). You can reach a maximum of 10 points from solving challenges in the MiniCTF. The MiniCTF will run until Thursday at 12:00 (noon).

Please verify that your challenge is solvable on our platform (e.g. we included all the necessary files and/or set up your hosted service correctly). If there are problems with your challenge, please contact Simon Schwarz.

The feedback and points for the idea of the challenge are now released. We will award 3 additional points for challenge stability if your challenge runs smoothly during the MiniCTF.

Dear students,

we hope all of you are fine, happy and healthy. We would really like to hear your opinion on our course. We therefore kindly ask you to fill out this survey to evaluate the lecture: https://qualis.uni-saarland.de/eva/?l=133616&p=ef2zvs
and the tutorials: https://qualis.uni-saarland.de/eva/?l=1336161&p=rsfpaz

We really do our best to provide a good learning experience for you, but of course we are constantly trying to improve. If there is anything else we can do to improve, please also let us know via email or CMS! Thank you!

Dear students,

the feedback for your challenge idea has been released. You can find it on the personal status page of the submitter.
Remember to submit your final MiniCTF challenge by 01.02.2022 at 16:59.

If you have questions about our feedback or want to discuss your implementation, you can visit our Office Hour on Tuesday, 25.01. at 14:00 on our Discord.

Next week (17.01. - 21.01.), we will offer an additional office hour instead of the regular tutorials. The office hour will take place on 18 January 14:00-15:00. The procedure for joining remains the same as last week. During the office hour, you can discuss any queries regarding your MiniCTF challenge and also ask questions regarding the topics covered since the last tutorial (e.g. Network Security).

Dear students,

as announced before the holidays, today we will have an excellent guest speaker. Martin Schmiedecker (Twitter: @Fr333k) is working at Bosch and will talk about various security topics from an industry perspective. Martin is an expert on online privacy, digital forensics and automotive security. 

Looking forward to see many of you there. It is an excellent chance to get insights from practice!

Dear students,

We hope that all of you are happy and healthy and that you had a great start into the new year. Unfortunately, today's lecture has to be canceled. Please watch last year's video on network security (taught by Giancarlo Pellegrino) instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TZ9DpPfVAU. The content is exactly the same that was planned for this year's lecture. The lecture slides will be posted in the coming days. Please also use the Tutorials and Askbot in case you have any questions or need additional clarifications on the content.

Thank you all very much for your understanding. My sincere apologies for these circumstances.

Dear students,

the teams for the MiniCTF competition have been assigned. You can find your team on your personal status page. Most teams consist of 4 people. Smaller teams have been merged together into teams of 3 or 4 people. The contact details of your team members are displayed on your personal status page.  

The next milestone for the MiniCTF is the submission of your challenge idea. Please read through the MiniCTF instructions for more details on what is expected from your challenge idea submission. The submission deadline for milestone 2 is 19.01.2022 at 16:59.

Dear students,

we have released a document with instructions for the MiniCTF competition. Please have a look at https://cms.cispa.saarland/sec2122/3/MiniCTF. The first milestone is to find a team of 4 people, which should be completed by 04.01.2022. Please read through the instructions to find a detailed description of what to do. Please note that the second milestone will officially start on 06.01.2022.

Furthermore, the fourth exercise sheet has been released and can be found in the Materials section. In order for you to be able to take time off during the holidays and not stress you with the exercise sheet, note that submission is due on 12.01.2022.

Lastly, we wish you a merry Christmas and hope that you can enjoy your break.

Best wishes,
your Security team

Due to the steady rise of COVID-19 infections in Saarland we decided to switch back to an online only offering for the class starting tomorrow. We will continue with the setup used in the first lectures (i.e. the same link). We are sorry to not being able to offer a format which many of you preferred, and will re-evaluate our options if/when incidence numbers are falling again. We plan to continue recording lectures, and will upload them to youtube as usual.  Please contact us if this switch creates problems for you, and we will see if we can accomodate. For the in-person tutorials, we are currently discussing with the tutors.

Dear students,

here is a quick update on the lecture, tutorials, and exercises:

• Based on your feedback in the Doodle poll, we will hold the lecture from tomorrow onwards as a hybrid lecture (until further notice). If you plan to attend online, nothing should change. But now you also have the option to attend the lecture in person in GHH. The link to the online lecture will stay the same. We plan to record the lecture and release it via Youtube as usual (if the technical setup in hybrid allows this).

• The assignment for the tutorials has been released and can be found on your personal status page. The first tutorials will take place next week (08.11. - 12.11.). Afterwards, tutorials will be held bi-weekly. Online tutorials will be held on our Discord server. In-person tutorials will take place in the room shown on your personal status page.

• The first exercise sheet has been released. This sheet must be submitted digitally via CMS on your personal status page. Groups of two students are allowed. If you want to submit in a group, make sure that you create a team on your personal status page in CMS and invite your group partner. Furthermore, do always include the names and matriculation numbers of all team members on your submission. The submission deadline is 15.11. at 16:59.

Hi students,

Lecture 3 in Security will be given online via Zoom today, at the same link as the last times. We set up a doodle poll now to ask about your preferences wrt hybrid vs online: poll link. Please fill this poll until Friday. If we decide to offer hybrid lecture, we will let you know well in advance to allow you to adapt your schedules to accomodate the travel overhead. We will always have the option to join online, or watch videos on Youtube.

Dear students,

The semester has just started and tomorrow will be the kick-off for the security core lecture. The kick-off will be held in a hybrid format. We will stream live from GHH (use this link to participate online). In case of technical problems, we will of course publish the slides and all relevant information in CMS after the lecture.

Please do not forget to register for this course until 27 Oct 2021!

We are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow at 12.15 at GHH and on Zoom!