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Hello Blog,

please don’t be angry my last post was so long time ago… There has been a lot of change in my life. I finished my work at SES ASTRA TechCom. 3 month I spent there this time. It was an interesting job, even if not linked to security. I learned a lot about Unix, IP over Satellite, Python, and Networking in general.

Despite this good experience, I’m looking forward to continue my studies. In fact, next monday the lectures are starting. My career at the “Université du Luxembourg” ended also for the moment. I got my diploma in Computer Sciences and Engineering and now I will start my Master in IT Security/Networks and Systems at the Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB).

Why Bochum? Well, driving from Luxembourg the “Autobahn” is mostly without speed limit, isn’t that reason enough? The  RUB is the 6th biggest University of Germany (32 700 Students) and has the biggest institut for IT Security of whole Europe. The Horst-Grötz Institut for IT Security.

I haven’t seen that much from Bochum till now, but what I have seen looks good. people seem nice, the city-part I’m living in is really nice and my flat is also cool.

Yesterday, I went to the hackerspace in Bochum: Das Labor. I have a little bit experience in hackerspaces, I have been in the C4 hackerspace, in the space of the CCC-Trier and of course in the fresh space of the hackerspace.lu, syn2cat, but I was really impressed by the labor. The space is just huuuuuuuge, and there were a lot of people present, soldering, hacking stuff, having fun with technology. For my part, I talked to some geeks there, very friendly persons. I met a guy that is  doing the Master I will do, and he explained me a lot of things, and gave me some hints which I appreciated a lot. Another hacker showed me his USA/Canada holiday photos and we talked a lot. The ideal place to meet the kind of persons I like. All in all, I have the impression that in the labor the focus is highly set on micro-controllers, which is something different, and interesting.

A long time has passed without any news on this blog. I was very busy with my studies and work.
The 18. June I defended my bachelor work, called:

Development of an automated process to execute and analyse the network behaviour of malware in a controlled environment.

As there were already a lots of request for it, and a lot of people showed interest in it, I’ll release it here. I hope you enjoy it. This work was done at the “Université du Luxembourg” and with “SES Astra” as an industrial partner.
The report has a creativecommons v3.0 license.

Download: Memoire

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions related to this work.

Already 15 weeks have passed… so, yesterday my official working contract with SES Engineering ended.
The last 15 weeks were just great, I got in touch with the world of working, learned a lot of new things and enjoyed a lot of high skilled persons . I think I would really have liked to work on in this office, nice persons, good mood, skills where ever you look… I have a high admiration for these people and really hope to have their knowledge once.
So how does life goes on now for me? Well, more free time No joking, next come exams and the presentation of my bachlor work. After I will seriously search and apply for an university for next year, I already chose one or two, now I just hope they want me there…
Another thing that I will do is… working Yesterday at SES I got a contract for a 3 month holiday job, not at SES Engineering, but at SES Techcom, which have their offices one floor below the one I worked till now. My task will be a totally different, and certainly with less focus on security, nevertheless I already look forward for this job. If I get in touch with such interesting persons I got at SES Engineering SNT Team, I’ll be very happy there too
So, more on this when I work there, now first I have to focus on finalizing my studies at Luxembourg.

Yesterday (16.02), was a really cool day. I started to work at SES ASTRA. I’ll hack code there for the next 15 weeks. If everything goes on as it is now it will be a great experience. Cool people with plenty of skills work there: sitting next to a very motivated PhD Student and in front of adulau. I got a T60 for my work, same Laptop as I own, great thing, it supports vmx, that’s great if you have to use qemu, you can speed it up a lot with kvm…
Furthermore, it’s just fun to work there, working hours are flexible, I can work from my home if I want… cantine is really cheap, for less than 3 euro you get a whole menu including a drink. Uni.lu would need something like that, too. I look forward to increase my skills a lot during this period, I already learned quite a lot for the first day.
After the work I headed home, ate a piece and went to seppl to prepare everything for the C3L meeting, special guests were Ralf and Krater, from dedected.org I was really surprised about the amount of hackers that found the way to this meeting, people from Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg were present. The Clubroom was quite full, 23-25 hackers were present I think… Ralf and Krater shortly rehashed what they reached in DECT hacking, and answered a lot of questions, and even demonstrated their work.(One hacker meant: “it’s tragic but it works”, I liked it) For me it was a great evening, and if I trust the feedback I got I’m not a isolated case

So, this meeting was just great, but next will be great too!