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!

Chromium Exploited Again in HITB 2012

Siang tadi aku tgk scoreboard ada nama mamat ni.. masa tu belum confirm lagi. ni mcm dah confirm je dia dapat another USD60K. hebatlah

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For the second time this year, an anonymous teenage security researcher has succeeded in producing a full exploit, including a sandbox escape, against Google Chrome. The researcher, who uses the pseudonym PinkiePie, submitted his exploit Wednesday during the Pwnium contest run by Google at the Hack in the Box conference.

tadi ingat nak masuk PirateBay punya talk, tapi talk cancelled.

Pirate Bay founders Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij suddenly and unexpectedly didn't show up for their eagerly-awaited presentation at the HiTB security conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this afternoon.
There is still no official word on the whereabouts or status of Sunde and Neij.
They were set to travel seperately, with Nelj coming to the conference via Thailand

Don't know what happened to them.

Malicious Software Coursera FREE class now online

Coursera previously initiated with few classes and now expands with many classes across different disciplines. Good to know, Dr Lorenzo Cavalero also started his class on Malicious Software which can simply being signed up here

Summary

"Malicious Software and its Underground Economy: Two Sides to Every Story
Lorenzo Cavallaro of Royal Holloway, University of London

Learn about traditional and mobile malware, the security threats they represent, state-of-the-art analysis and detection techniques, and the underground ecosystem that drives such a profitable but illegal business."

The class however will only start next Jun 2013.. that's almost 9 months to go! Enough to get a baby birthed.

Have fun!

From Springerlink, "Automatic Malware Analysis An Emulator Based Approach"

the book can be downloaded here (your organization need a subscription)

Value of Hacked PC - by Krebs

Krebs put this on his website. Thought it'll be useful to share it to you guys.