A blog about Computer Science and IT-Security
Fake accounts on Twitter are very common these days. Twitter recently claimed they deleted millions of them and even the stock price fell more than 15%, when they released their user rates [1]. I personally believe, deleting fake accounts from the platform is actually very good in the long term of any social media platform. However,…
On the Google Play Store the application “Photo,Video Locker-Calculator” promises to hide your videos and photos from unauthorized access. To quote the app description “Your files will be secretly stored in vault and can only be viewed after a Numeric PIN is entered on calculator panel of this app.” Unfortunately, this is not true because…
As a part of a study project we did a performance comparison between Wireshark Plugins written in C and written in Lua. According to the Wireshark Development guide the Lua plugins are only used for proof of concept code because the C plugins are faster. This post aims to clarify how big this performance gap…
Update your UEFI Firmware under Linux can be a little challenge. This article provides information regarding the Thinkpad T450s and the recent UEFI version 1.21. Important: I am not responsible for any hardware defects – using this information is your own risk. What you need for this guide: Arch Linux USB-Stick (I am using this…