Winter 2023/24

Mobile Security (Lecture, 6 ECTS, MSc)

This lecture covers mobile security on an application and system level, with many hands-on exercises. Students will learn state-of-the-art security concepts for both, iOS and Android, and will be able to perform security testing of mobile apps, mobile malware analysis, as well as testing security-critical components within mobile operating systems. Grading is based on exercises and the final exam.

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Reverse Engineering for Security Analysis (Project seminar, 6 ECTS, MSc)

In this project, Master students will get a short introduction on reverse engineering. From then on, they can work on individual projects in small groups with the goal to reverse engineer real-world software to uncover and report security vulneabilities. Safe harbour policies of leading vendors allow reverse engineering, enabling students to work on impactful projects.

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Open-Source Fuzzing (Project seminar, 6 ECTS, BSc)

In this project, Bachelor students will get a short introduction to fuzzing. Similar to the reverse engineering project, they will work on individual projects in small groups. They can choose to fuzz a software that is already open-source — or join a reverse-engineering group to fuzz interesting interfaces that they discovered. Discovered vulnerabilities will be disclosed to the vendors, thereby improving security of open-source software projects.

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