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Ende April fand die Jahrestagung SICHERHEIT 2018 in Konstanz statt. https://sicherheit2018.in.htwg-konstanz.de/ Drei Tage lang diskutierten die Teilnehmenden auf dem „Familientreffen“ des Fachbereichs Sicherheit (Schutz und Zuverlässigkeit) die Themen, die in der deutschsprachigen Community in der […]

We do not have a lot of companies specialising in IT security in the Lake Constance area, so we went on a field trip to Tettnang on the other side of the lake to visit […]

Two computer science students from HTWG Konstanz won a travel grant to participate in the SECENTIS winter school. Sandra Ringmann (BIT) and Felix Schuckert (MSI) had applied to attend the winter school on „Security and […]

The Alliance for Cyber Security is an initiative of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), established in cooperation with Germany’s digital association (BITKOM). HTWG Konstanz University of Applied Sciences has joined the Alliance […]

We had two experts from Avira presenting on mobile malware this week. Close to 80 students and staff attended a FirmenForum presentation given by Alexander Vukcevic, Director Virus Labs, and Marcus König, Manager Advanced Research […]

Almost thirty computer science students from HTWG Konstanz formed a team to participate in the hack.lu CTF competition. The goal of this competition in applied IT security was to solve tasks related to web application […]

The goal of the 10KStudents challenge is to improve cyber security by teaching 10,000 university students the basic concepts of software vulnerabilities and secure programming. It has its roots in the (now completed) SysSec Network […]

The yearly iCTF competition of the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) counts as one of the toughest in the field of applied IT security. Some even call it an unofficial CTF world championship. The […]