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Fixed Even More Flags in Scoreboard

Written on 18.12.25 by Metodi Mitkov

Hi,

with so many flags flying around, a few sneaky ones slipped past our observation.

Added missing flags for E4.10: SQL Injection (SQLi) and E4.12 XSS Attacks.

Fixed wrong flags for E4.13 Advanced XSS

Good luck and have fun!

Scoreboard bug: regular 4.8 info disclosure flag was incorrect

Written on 16.12.25 by Simeon Hoffmann

Hey students,

the flag for info disclosure 4.8 was wrong. This has been fixed and all solves have been reset. Be quick to resubmit the correct flag.

Best,

Simeon

Happy Holidays, Next Lecture on 6.1.26, Evaluation

Written on 16.12.25 by Nils Ole Tippenhauer

Hi all,

Just a reminder: next lecture will be on January 6th (no lecture this week). Enjoy your winter holidays!

I also put up the evaluation links in the material collection (misc) section. Please start to fill these until Jan 16. We are looking forward to constructive feedback!

Cheers,

Nils

Happy Holidays, Next Lecture on 6.1.26, Evaluation

Written on 16.12.25 by Nils Ole Tippenhauer

Hi all,

Just a reminder: next lecture will be on January 6th (no lecture this week). Enjoy your winter holidays!

I also put up the evaluation links in the material collection (misc) section. Please start to fill these until Jan 16. We are looking forward to constructive feedback!

Cheers,

Nils

Flag submissions online for web security

Written on 15.12.25 by Simeon Hoffmann

Hey all,

the scoreboard has been updated to include the web security stuff. So be quick and submit all your things.

Best,

Simeon

Follow-up to typo in submission deadline

Written on 08.12.25 by Simeon Hoffmann

Dear students,

earlier, we wrote that we had a mistake in the submission deadline for the current project. We understand that some of you may have interpreted it as "deadline on 10th of december". To avoid additional short-term stress for a mistake that we made, we extended the deadline of the… Read more

Dear students,

earlier, we wrote that we had a mistake in the submission deadline for the current project. We understand that some of you may have interpreted it as "deadline on 10th of december". To avoid additional short-term stress for a mistake that we made, we extended the deadline of the current project to 10.12.25 23:59. Please note that this will not change the release or deadline of the next exercise sheet. 

Best,

Simeon

Typo in submission deadline

Written on 08.12.25 by Simeon Hoffmann

Dear students,

the exercise sheet had a wrong submission date. The deadline is not 10.12.2024 (so, last year), but is, similar to all other sheets, Tuesday evening, 9.12.25 23:59, as indicated in the submission and the course calendar.

Best,

Simeon

Scoreboard remotes missing

Written on 26.11.25 by Simeon Hoffmann

Unfortunately, I forgot to add the flag verification for some of the challenges. This should all be fixed (tm) now.

Be quick and submit your angry solutions.

Best (and very sorry),

Simeon

Exercise sheet 3 online

Written on 26.11.25 by Simeon Hoffmann

Dear students,

exercise sheet 3 is online.

Simeon

Lecture next Tuesday, Dec 2, in HS002

Written on 26.11.25 by Nils Ole Tippenhauer

Dear students, as announced yesterday in the lecture, next week Tuesday (only on that day) the lecture will be held in HS0.02 in E1.3. Reason is a colliding examination in GHH at the same time. I will try to record as always.

Hope to see you there,

Nils

Exercise sheet 2 online

Written on 12.11.25 by Simeon Hoffmann

Dear students,

exercise sheet 2 is online.

Simeon

Tutorial assignments

Written on 03.11.25 by Simeon Hoffmann

Dear students,

tutorials have been assigned and will start tomorrow. 

The tutors will also offer an office hour on mondays from 16:00-18:00 (SR 013 in E1 3). These will start today.

Best,

Simeon

RSA Bank online again

Written on 29.10.25 by Simeon Hoffmann

RSA bank maintenance is over, sorry for the inconvenience.

Exercise sheet 1 maintenance

Written on 29.10.25 by Simeon Hoffmann

Exercise sheet 1: RSA bank is currently down due to maintenance. It will be back online shortly.

Exercise Sheet 1 online

Written on 29.10.25 by Simeon Hoffmann

Dear students,

exercise sheet 1 is online.

Simeon

Tutorial Vote

Written on 27.10.25 (last change on 27.10.25) by Simeon Hoffmann

Dear students,

voting for your favorite tutorial slot is now open. Please vote until Friday, 31.10., 23:59

Simeon

Scoreboard winners

Written on 21.10.25 (last change on 21.10.25) by Simeon Hoffmann

As a small motivation for student teams to complete scoreboard challenges, we will award small prices to the top 3 scoreboard teams at the end of the Semester.

Simeon

Release exercise sheet 0

Written on 20.10.25 by Simeon Hoffmann

Dear students,

we just released exercise sheet 0. This is an ungraded sheet, however it is highly recommended to work through it as it contains all relevant setup-related steps for the lecture.

Simeon

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