Archive for the 'personal' Category



Reactivation of the blog

Quiet a lot of people asked me to write again blog postings and even if I failed already a few times because of the time it takes to write these postings, I’ll try it once more and hope to provide all my readers again with valuable information on the topic of security.

Happy New Year

I know, I’m a bit late but I really like to wish all of you out there a happy new year
Myself, I was visiting London with my girlfriend during new year’s eve and we really enjoyed it (everything beside waiting 2.5 hours in the cold to see a 10min firework).

PS: Next time I [...]

The Security-Zone is as far as I know, the most important and biggest security event in Switzerland and like last year I was there to present some stuff. Also like the last time, I wasn’t alone, there where Pascal Mittner from Astalavista IT Engineering and Pascal C. Kocher from Defcon Switzerland (I’ll write something about [...]

As some of you might know, during the last week we had the Global OWASP Week 2008. As I’m the actual leader of the OWASP Switzerland Local Chapter, I organized a meeting during this week. Because we needed some more space, we went to the ETH Zurich where we had a room for 46 people. [...]

Advanced English?

As you might know, I’m actually studying computer science at the Bern University of Applied Sciences Engineering and Information Technology. Yesterday we had English lessons and I’m in the advanced group, which is the highest level we can attend in this semester. So let’s have a look at an exercise we’ve done in this lesson [...]

(According to the following blog posting, be aware of that I’ve never bypassed any authorization mechanism, nor did I break, access or change anything I was not allowed to.)
Last weekend, I went snowboarding in the Swiss mountains and the weather including the snow was just perfect. Because the winter sport season hasn’t started yet, there [...]

Become a Suspect

A few days ago, I’ve got the following Mail (it’s in German):
Hallo,
das warst doch du, der unser Sprachportal (MobiLingua, Uni Passau) über das Forum gehackt hat und mir damit einen gehörigen Schrecken eingejagt hat, oder?
Jedenfalls danke für den Hinweis – das ist halt der Nachteil von CMS: Man kann zwar mit relativ wenig Hintergrundwissen ein [...]

When I started to study computer science, I thought that it would cost me less time than it does now. Because of this I don’t have as much research time as expected. I know, that some people are waiting for my announced papers ans so i decided to release my paper called “Developing Firefox Extensions”, [...]

I’m alive and working

Yes it’s true, that it’s over a whole month ago since I wrote my last blog entry. This has different reasons, so for example I started studying computer science and had to become familiar with this new situation, especially because I’m still work for Dreamlab Technologies at the same time. Also it took me some [...]

What I’m Working On

Below you’ll find some of the actual projects I’m working on:
Developing Firefox Extensions (70%) – Paper
Because even most of the developers I know have no clue on how to build extensions for the Firefox web browser and because I don’t know of any easy and basic level tutorial, I started to write a paper in [...]