How to secure your Windows computer from malware

Most of us are actually using Windows computer in their daily tasks. However, some precaution must be made in order not to get mad after being infected by the nasty viruses.

• Always scan your USB drive.

-Sometimes your friend comes to your room and asked for your computer for casual stuffs -  surfing, finishing her work or sort of that. Make sure he scan her USB drive with an antivirus. You can easily find one, which is free, for example "Microsoft Security Essential" or "MSE"

• Do not download a suspicious attachment

-Somehow you might get an email from unknown people. If you happened to download the file, make sure you scan the file first - in order to reassure it is clean and pristine

• Use Linux

-Well, Windows virus is not compatible with Linux. Different architecture for real. This, for the case of normal executable file. Application based attack will not being discussed here. Linux is free, and I have been using it for almost 10 years without any virus infection.

Lastly, stay safe!

Basic Research Skills in CS

I found these two links, which really helps in directing your PhD research:

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson/teaching/research_skills/basics.html
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson/teaching/research_skills/research.html

Security talks at CERIAS, Purdue

I stumbled to this page and perhaps you guys interested to listen to these talks as well:

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Chrome and Blackhole Exploit

A friend who just move to Blue Coat Inc had his article published in Threatpost. Seems changing an employer opened him to new opportunities too!