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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Pier 66 – Seattle – Panorama
Posted: June 29, 2010 in SecurityTags: HDR, ICE, Long Exposure, Panorama, Photography, Photoshop, Talha, Tariq
Pier 66 – Seattle – Panorama
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) [...]
Portable applications are useful. You do not need to install them, carry them along with all the settings, forget about platforms, configurations, settings and most important liscencing. There are a number of techniques to make portable apps. Thinstall uses an Application Virtualization Technique to achive that purpose. VMWare recently acquired it and the application is [...]
Usenix, the advanced computing systems association, has today announced open public access to all of its conference proceedings. This is quite relevant to us (both students and professionals) working in Information Security, as Usenix Security Symposiums have been among the best technical conferences on the topic anywhere in the world. Unfortunately, most of the published [...]
Trying to search for a decent smart card reader seemed to be a much difficult task than i originally anticipated. Online shops from Hongkong and China are full of a range of both contact and contactless (rfid) card readers. Most of them however do not support the wide range of ISO standards (14443 A / [...]
Release Candidate has been released for the public and can be downloaded from here.
Since I moved to UK, the number of phishing emails cluttering my inbox have dramatically increased. Some of them are pretty obvious to look and laugh upon, but this one was pretty interesting. The email looked like below. The interesting thing is that i WAS having problems signing in to my account since a couple [...]
