My paper on trusted computing to secure virtualization is now live at Microsoft website. You can find it here: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=157213 PS: I do not work at Microsoft anymore.
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JavaCard 3 Specifications Released
Posted: April 8, 2008 in Codes & Utilities, Programming, SecurityAfter almost one year after the announcement of the Java Card 3.0, Sun finally releases it! Java Card technology enables smart cards and other devices with very limited memory to run small applications, that employ Java technology. It provides smart card manufacturers with a secure and interoperable execution platform that can store and update multiple [...]
Workstation 6.5 and ACE 2.5 beta are out and available for download. The most interesting feature added for me is the Support for Smart Cards and Smart Card Readers. Also an interesting new feature is the “Unity” that integrates applications on guest to be controlled from the host. Not sure at the moment how will [...]
If you are interested in robotics, wireless sensors, java, or embedded systems programming and you have not heard of SunSPOTs yet, you really live somewhere on Mars. Sun SPOT (stands for Small Programmable Object Technology) are very powerful and sophisticated little devices, perfect for sensor-based applications, and pervasive computing. It is a battery-operated (USB charged) [...]
For all *nix freaks who use windows for some reason or another, KDE has been ported to Windows and can be downloaded from here. Blogged with Flock
A talk on Open Source on Software Freedom Day
Posted: October 15, 2007 in Codes & Utilities, Programming, Random Writings, Reverse Engineering, Security, Security Testing, Virtualisation, Web SecurityThe world celebrated the Software Freedom Day on 15th September 2007. We had some 100+ countries and more than 300 groups covering the free software world in different form of activities, presentations and events. The webmasters of FAST-NU Karachi also organized an event and talk series on the day and I felt really honored and [...]
A pretty common task these days at work is migration and upgrading of older 1.1 framework code to the 2.0 framework. Some of the code is really straight forward to port to for example the System.Management Namespace based classes. However to leverage the new features of 2.0 a few changes must be made. For anyone [...]
My favourite virtualisation product VMWare is now in the sixth generation with its public beta available for testing in the holiday season. The product is continously being transformed for being the preferred tool for software engineers and security reasearchers due to its noticable features for ease of development, debugging and tracing. Integration with Visual Studio [...]
Im pleased to announce that My Remote Command Executor Project RemCom is now officially being used in Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation Project , which is one of the most widely used and successful hardware / software inventory, configuration and patch management open source project on sourceforge. You can see the link on [...]
I was recently requested that the liscencing of RCE (GPL Liscence) is too restrictive. I do not wish to debate over the difference liscences available for the open source community, yet I personally believe any kind of a restrictive clause in a liscence hurts the cause and the spirit of the foundation on which free [...]
