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I am 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:
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Operating Systems, Virtualization and Trusted Platforms.
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Smartcards, financial security and EMV.
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Reverse Engineering, malware, Exploit Development and Honeynets.
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Mobile Security, NFC and RFID.
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Privacy, anonymity and traffic analysis.
In my free time I am either playing soccer or doing some photography.
Selected Publications:
· 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.
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)
By: Wes Miller on November 4, 2008
at 4:24 pm
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
By: Paul on November 12, 2008
at 6:30 pm
sir,
how to become a good security expert
By: MOHD. ARSALAN on March 17, 2009
at 4:56 am
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
By: MOHD. ARSALAN on March 17, 2009
at 5:03 am
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.
By: Ananthakrishnan on May 22, 2009
at 12:21 pm
Hi,
thanks for verry much for the eclipse-jcde plugin.
Is there any way to make it work with Java Card 2.2.1?
By: Hanane on June 22, 2009
at 10:03 am
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
By: Markus on June 23, 2009
at 12:39 am
Salam Walimum Bhaijaan. Thanks for the support , from your help now I can use the Vmware to make portable appz
allah hafiz
By: Barij Ahmed on October 10, 2009
at 11:44 pm
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.
By: Kemal on November 8, 2009
at 10:32 am