In cooperation with the Aalen University of Applied Sciences, SCHUTZWERK organized another successful hacking event for their students. As part of the all-day event, the students were invited to solve challenges from different categories and levels of difficulty. New this year were, besides the updated Challenges in the existing areas, challenges from the topic Hardware / Embedded Security.
At this point we would like to thank the University for the cooperation and congratulate the winners of the event.
For the second year SCHUTZWERK was a sponsor of the hardwear.io conference in Den Haag. This year, we attended the conference with 3 employees focused on hardware and embedded security.
The Training Session One of our hardware specialists, Heiko Ehret, learned how to reverse engineer a microchip in the training IC reverse engineering 101 from Tuesday to Wednesday. In this training the principles of gaining access to the DIE of a chip were presented and in the practical part for example photos, which were taken with a scanning electron microscope (SEM), were analyzed to extract the computational structure as well as reading out the contents of the memories.
This year the it-sa, one of the biggest trade fairs for IT-Security in the German-speaking region, will take place from 10th to 12nd October at the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre. SCHUTZWERK GmbH will be present in hall 9, booth 9-615. This is the joint booth of the Bavarian IT security cluster.
Visitors who want to prove their hacking skills can do so at one of two capture-the-flag contests. Here, participants experience a lack of IT security in practice and can take advantage of one of the rare opportunities for hacking legally.
On March 24, 2017, SCHUTZWERK, in cooperation with the Institute for Distributed Systems, held a "Capture-The-Flag" hacking competition for about 60 students of the University of Ulm.
As part of the all-day workshop at the University of Ulm, students were given various hacking tasks in multiple categories and difficulty levels. A part of the tasks were concerned with a forensic investigation of IT systems, based on provided memory images. Further tasks covered the areas of security of web applications, algorithms and cryptography.
In cooperation with the Universities of Furtwangen and Aalen, SCHUTZWERK organized a hacking event on the 25th resp. 30th of November 2016, which also included a ‘‘Capture the Flag Contest’’. With overall nearly 100 participants and a lot of positive feedback the events were a full success.
We like to say thank you for the professional cooperation to those responsible on the side of the Universities of Furtwangen and Aalen. Also a big thank you to all participating students for the awesome participation!
In cooperation with the University of Aalen, SCHUTZWERK is organizing a Hacking Workshop with “Capture the Flag Contest” on the 30th November 2016. The event enables the participants to achieve IT security know-how in a playful way.
The workshop covers diverse areas, for example the forensic analysis of IT systems, on the basis of a working storage map. Further topics in the area of web application hacking, algorithmics and cryptographiy will be addressed additionally.
