Ethics of Activist DDOS Actions
A Historical Analysis In the world of digital activism, distributed denial of service attacks present relatively low barriers to popular participation, have a high potential for attracting large numbers of […]
How I Met Your Pointer
Hijacking Client Software for Fuzz and Profit An approach to the problem of fuzzing proprietary protocols will be shown, focusing on network protocols and native software. In the course of […]
We Are All Lawmakers
How to further transparency by law – the Hamburg example and beyond In the Free City of Hamburg, which is one of 16 German states, a coalition of hackers, activists […]
Lessons Learned on Electronic Napkins
On the Way to Free(ing) Education Massive open online courses are the vogue of the season when it comes to discussing the future of university-level education. But we’re only starting […]
Let Me Answer That For You
Adventures in Mobile Paging In the last years, mobile security and specifically GSM has been attacked in many different ways. It was demonstrated how to sniff and crack traffic, how […]
Milking the Digital Cash Cow
Extracting Secret Keys of Contactless Smartcards Contactless smartcards have become widespread for applications such as ticketing, access control, identification and payments. Side-channel analysis (SCA) is a powerful type of passive […]