Mike Andrews was one of the coolest and most knowledgeable professors I had the opportunity of learning from, while at school @ Florida Tech. Currently, Mike is currently working as the Principle consultant at Foundstone/McAfee, taking a break from teaching. At school, we did not have video tape lectures, but I did find this video […]
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Ajit Gaddam is an accomplished technology executive and is currently the Head of Security Engineering at Visa, where he is responsible for building large scale AI driven cybersecurity products, leading engineering programs, and providing expert guidance on cybersecurity matters. He has presented at conferences worldwide, including USENIX Enigma, RSA, Black Hat, Strata Data Hadoop, COSO Dublin, and GCS Ukraine. Ajit has been quoted by major media organizations and his work has been showcased in academic journals, security publications, and in two published books. He is an active participant in various open source and standards bodies, is a prolific inventor of disruptive technologies (over 100+ global patents), and moonlights as an instructor (SANS, community colleges).
The Great Zero Challenge
The Great Zero Challenge: A challenge to confirm whether or not a professional data recovery firm or any individual(s) or organization(s) can recover data from a hard drive that has been overwritten with zeros once. All they used is the Unix dd command using /dev/zero as input to overwrite the drive. They are doing this […]
Continue ReadingHow to crash Google Chrome
Google claims that its browser Google Chrome is able to isolate events that may crash a browser, isolated within those individual tabs. However, an issue exists with how Google Chrome handles undefined handlers in chrome.dll version 0.2.149.27 which is the latest version of the browser. A crash can result without any user interaction. When a […]
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Comparison of the different Internet Browsers and their users. Click here for a bigger picture : http://www.flickr.com/photos/21904710@N00/2754981251/sizes/o/
Continue ReadingWhat is Defense in Depth
Defense-in-depth is fundamental to the design of a secure system. It stems from the idea that software can have flaws; people can make configuration mistakes; and hardware devices can fail. To compensate for events like these, we do not want to rely on a single mechanism to defend our resources. Instead, we deploy multiple layers […]
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