Category: System Designs
Secure Systems 2016 – An Overview, Walter Kriha
This is an attempt to provide an overview of the topics in “Secure Systems”, a seminar held during the summer term 2016 at the Stuttgart Media University HdM. Presentations have been given and blog entries into our new MI blog were made. With the chosen topics we have been quite lucky, as some of them…
Botnets – Structural analysis, functional principle and general overview
This paper provides an overview on the most important types of botnets in terms of network topology, functional principle as well as a short definition on the subject matter. By exploring the motivation of botnet operators, the reader will gain more insight into business models and course of actions of key players in the field.…
Exploring Docker Security – Part 2: Container flaws
Now that we’ve understood the basics, this second part will cover the most relevant container threats, their possible impact as well as existent countermeasures. Beyond that, a short overview of the most important sources for container threats will be provided. I’m pretty sure you’re not counting on most of them. Want to know more?
MirageOS
Introduction MirageOS is a new and rising trend when it comes to talking about cloud computing. More and more services are being relocated into modern cloud infrastructures, due to a lot of advantages like i.e. reduced costs, maximum flexibility and high performance. Todays services normally depend on big virtual machines (like i.e. Ubuntu Xenial with…
Exploring Docker Security – Part 1: The whale’s anatomy
When it comes to Docker, most of us immediately start thinking of current trends like Microservices, DevOps, fast deployment, or scalability. Without a doubt, Docker seems to hit the road towards establishing itself as the de-facto standard for lightweight application containers, shipping not only with lots of features and tools, but also great usability. However, another important topic is neglected very…
Stupid by nature? – How psychology influences our security decisions
An overview on how psychology influences our decision making process, cognitive biases and why good security trade-offs are so important.
Test Driven Development Part IV
[written by Roman Kollatschny and Matthias Schmidt] Welcome back to our fourth and final post in our series. This time we want to deal with code style and code quality to optimize coding on additional ways.
- Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System Engineering
SocialCloud – Lessons Learned – Part 8
Looking back at 4 months of intensive work on our project “SocialCloud” we gathered a lot of experiences and learned many things regarding teamwork, cloud infrastructure and about the difficulties of creating and designing a web application from scratch. Read this blogpost to be prepared for your next big project!
- Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System Engineering
SocialCloud – HumHub and the humming begins – Part 7
The background Locally organized voluntary groups, helping refugees manage their first steps in Germany, are often organized by mass-email with up to 50 recipients. So the huge amount of received emails which should be clarified ends up in a “answer all”-flood of every involved mailbox. Another realistic misbehaviour is that images are sent uncompressed as…
Test Driven Development Part III
[written by Roman Kollatschny and Matthias Schmidt] Uhwe, hello and welcome back to the third of our posts in this series. Today we want to show you additional features and tipps on developing a node.js web application test driven. As stated in the last article we use Mocha.js and Chai.js as tools.

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