Jakob Löw

• IT-Security Researcher at THI
• CTO at Löw & Sailer Software
• Tiny House Resident
• Living in Pfaffenhofen / Germany
• Twizy Driver
• CTF Hacking Competition Participant

• CV
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• Github
• Contact

Paper

• DrainDead: Emptying Batteries of Parked Electric Vehicles
• Charging Communication Sniffing and Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
• Fast Charging Communication and Cybersecurity: A Technology Review
• Master Thesis: Bus Protocol Learning
• Implementation of a Software Based Glitching Detection Mechanism
• Software Based Glitching Detection
• Validating Program Correctness Using Quantum Computing
• Component Identification in Firmware Images
• Finding Common Compiler Options Altering Compilation Output
• Bachelor Thesis: Side Channel Attacks on Disk Encryption
• Register allocation in JIT compilers

Achievements

• 11.2023 - 1. Place Cyberevolution 2023: Hacking contest organized by Kuppingercole Analsysts in Kap Europa in Frankfurt am Main
• 04.2023 - 1. Place DamCTF 2023: Global Hacking contest organized by Wayne State University
• 05.2022 - 1. Place DawgCTF 2022: Global Hacking contest organized by University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 11.2021 - 2. Place CyberSecurityDays CTF: Global Hacking contest organized by Ostschweizer Fachhochschule
• 04.2021 - 3. Place HackPack CTF 2021: Global Hacking contest organized by North Carolina State University
• 09.2020 - 1. Place Hackathon Pfaffenhofen: Hackathon organized by the KUS Pfaffenhofen
• 10.2019 - 2. Place Climathon: Clima themed Hackathon organized by E.ON & Bayernwerk
• 05.2019 - 1. Place RoboCar Challenge: Fiction2Science Hackathon organized by Continental AG
• 12.2018 - 2. Place THI CTF: Hacking contest at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
• 09.2018 - 1. Place Cyber Security Challenge: Fiction2Science Hackathon organized by Continental AG
• 12.2017 - 1. Place THI CTF: Hacking contest at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt

Pictures of me, of projects I work on and of things I am passionate for.

Open Source Projects

Some of the open source work I usually publish on my Github profile.

E-Scooter Dashboard

EggBot

DJI Tello in Python

Optimizing Brainf*ck

Nature & Cities

Some of the places I visited in the more or less recent past.

Eichstätt, Germany

Seoul Tower, South Korea

Seoul City Center, South Korea

Prague, Czech Republic

1000'th McDonalds, Sao Paulo

Reutte, Austria

Strasbourg, France

Blåvands Huk, Denmark

Dancing Houses, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Bandama Crater, Gran Canaria, Spain

KODA Tiny House

Since early 2023 I am living in a KODA Loft by Kodasema. The house has a total size of 29m². Living area of 24m². After preparing the property, the house was delivered turnkey and simply set up using a crane.

Twizy

Small electric vehicle sold by Renault. You might find some Twizy related modding and interfacing projects on my Github as well as in my master thesis.