About Me

Disclaimer: This is my personal blog. Any views expressed on these pages are mine alone and not those of my employer(s).

 I am a Senior Consultant in the Threat and Vulnerability Management Team at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Before joining PwC, I was a  Software Engineer in the eXtreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research, working on High Assurance Trusted Computing, Virtualization Security and Cloud Computing Futures.

Before joining Microsoft, I was a security researcher in the Information Security Group at the Royal Holloway University of London where I did my Masters in Mathematics (Cryptography). My adviser was Professor Chris J. Mitchell.

During my time in the UK I worked at Sun Microsystems as a Technical Consultant working on SunSPOTs, JavaCards and their applications.

Even before, I was working with NCR Corporation as a Software Design Engineer and ebanking Technical Consultant in the Financial Solutions Division working on PCI, ATMs, POS Terminals, Electronic Cheque processing systems.

I did my Bachelors in Computer Science from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NU) Pakistan.

My interests include:

  • Reverse Engineering, malware, Exploit Development and Honeynets.
  • Operating Systems, Virtualization and Trusted Platforms.
  • Smartcards, financial security and EMV.
  • Mobile Security, NFC and RFID.
  • Privacy, anonymity and traffic analysis.

In my free time I am either practicing Jiu-Jitsu or doing some photography.

Selected Publications and patents:

US Patent pending: Key Management using Trusted Platform Modules

· Towards a Programmable TPM; Talha Tariq & Paul England, in Trust 2009 Second International Conference on Trusted Computing, Oxford, UK.

· Extending Secure Execution Environments; Talha Tariq, [RHUL-MA-2009-9] Technical Report, Department of Mathematics, University of London.

Comments
  1. Wes Miller says:

    Talha – I work for a security software company in Austin, Texas, and I ran across your site earlier today (FWIW, I used to work with Mark Russinovich at Winternals).

    My current company is looking at providing some psexec style techniques in a commercial product that we are building, and since Microsoft no longer licenses the Sysinternals tools for redistribution (let alone providing source code access), RemCom would seem a good substitute for us – the current version provides the functionality that we need.

    That said – what license are you providing the source under, and do you have any redistribution requirements for the binary if we wished to just utilize that as-is?

    Thanks,
    Wes Miller (wm@getwired.com)

  2. Paul says:

    Hello…

    Could you please tell me how to capture a screenshot of the login screen. It seems that Windows needs to be launched before I can use either printscreen or the snipping tool. Would appreciate knowing how you captured yours. tn3-2.deviantart.com/fs11/300W/i/2006/206/6/f…
    300 x 225 – 9k.
    thanks, Paul

  3. sir,
    how to become a good security expert

  4. i am working as atraneer in IT security and ethical hacking
    want to get in the coorporate
    in Audit field
    help me
    how i will get a good break

  5. Ananthakrishnan says:

    Hi Talho tariq,

    I chatted with U via Gtalk. I did not know more about u while chatting. Now only i can understand. Really i am so happy about chatting with U. i take u as my role model in my life. i thing that it is not a easy one. i have to work hard to become like u. I send some mails U. i donot expect u that reply mail because u r so busy in your life. Keep in touch me when u find a time.
    Thanks
    Ananth.

  6. Hanane says:

    Hi,

    thanks for verry much for the eclipse-jcde plugin.
    Is there any way to make it work with Java Card 2.2.1?

  7. Markus says:

    Hi,
    i used your JCDE tool and it was quite handy :-).
    But now the JCDK3.0.1 is out it has even a debugger.
    Is there any chance that you adopt this new technology and create an Plugin for eciplse, which includes the debugger??
    ByeBye

  8. Barij Ahmed says:

    Salam Walimum Bhaijaan. Thanks for the support , from your help now I can use the Vmware to make portable appz

    allah hafiz

  9. Kemal says:

    Selam Talha,
    I’m working on smard cards and i would like to benefit by your experiences about smart cards.If you contact with me,i would be so pleased.

  10. G W BUSH says:

    Hi,
    How is Osama?

  11. talha says:

    hi,
    talha i am talha and i want to make friend who has same name.if you accept me plz mail me.on my mail address .

  12. Muhammad Adnan Khan says:

    Current I am working as Sys.Eng in Citi Barcelona Spain.

    Happy and proud to see your profile.

    I am from Rawalpindi , Pakistan.

    Keep it up

  13. Edward Pawley says:

    Hi Talha, i was looking at your profile and you seem to be a very talented guy. I would like to ask you if you can help me, or guide me to troubleshoot NCR XFS problems? I can’t seem to find much help on the net and i am stuck. Would really appreciate if you can contact me. Thanks

  14. Randy says:

    Hi Talha, when i read ur profile….i was impressed…how i wish i could have one of those..unfortunately i havent given a chance to work like that….lack of training and opportunity…..anyways, keep it up man…more success!

  15. Just like the publish, it’s fairly to ruminate anyone as expectant about shot and hustle over I am!

  16. Benjamin says:

    Wow, can you show us some cool security tips?

  17. Neel says:

    Hello Talha.

    Can you please tell which lens you use to make your night time pictures?

    Many thanks!

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