This post is inspired by a lot of questions I get about emails: Hey I got this strange email the other day… There are different mails that the security community…
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IT security is a complex field, which makes protecting goods and data against attacks a really difficult and ongoing challenge. As a security professional, I give lots of people advice…
If Germany is known for something other than beer, it is its strong economy and its leadership in different sectors, such as automotive, machinery and engineering in general. Still, lots…
I wanted to write for a long time about my past as a software developer. As mentioned in some other posts on this blog, I seriously started coding when I…
For my research I had a look at new functionalities of Android, especially related to security. I came across Protected Confirmation, which is a rather interesting method to ask the…
In my first years as a hobby coder, I was proficient in a small coding language named AutoHotkey. Before starting to learn C++, this was my go-to language of choice…
This is a totally short post, but vital information for me. I always end up searching for this online and always forget how to do it. So, in case you…
I started to write this post the end of December, during my visit in Leipzig at the 36th Chaos Computer Congress. If you do not know it, it is basically…
Last week I saw this tweet, which sparked a lot of interesting discussion about security of compilers.