memory of nobody

Am I really fit to that_great_school Response from one prof that I emailed: Hello, I am no longer taking PhD students in the area of security. My suggestion is that you apply to Purdue , Dartmouth, George Mason, Johns Hopkins . Best wishes on your education. --prof Oh boy!

Coming soon Thank you very much for interest in our program. congratulation , your paper entitled: 1. Effective Malware Analysis with Nepenthes has been accepted and approved by our committee to present for our conference. as for the presentations , shall you have any notes/handouts(ie:power point slides) to be distributed, please submit to us at least a day before the actual presentation day for preparation. to remind you, the fee for each paper is RM650.00 payable on the registration day. thank you very much and congratulation again ------------------------------ MyEduSec 2008 Striving Towards Secured Information http://www.udm.edu.my/ myedusec/2008/

KDE revisited I just went through bulks of my previous papers and what not and I found my previous writings on KDE localization, and presentation slides. I edited few old stuffs (such as email, because it was not being used anymore.. and also updated the blog address). The rest just remain, including my English level at that time. If you have time to read, or simply just want to read it then you refer here: KDE to Malay report [pdf] KDE to Malay presentation [converted to pdf]

Libang-libu (the lemma of choices) Don't ask me what it meant, it just words that I think it fun to put as my topic today. I am pretty much snowed under with tremendous workload ... teaching 3 sections with ~120 students, meetings, seminars in the workplace.. and what not. Alas, I'm not forgetting my pursuit for Phd ... despite I'm worrying whether I'm on par with the rest of the CS scientist (wannabe). Thinking about go to States, looking that_many people from Asia going there, and lotsof them even become the faculty members. Not I'm thinking to become like them(though I admit it is kinda pride working as a faculty member in a place where CS was borned). Now that one thing I don't really like about applying to States is that you_have_to_spend_USDs_for_just_applying. Unlike applying for .AU, where you just simply go to IDP, and send your letters, etc and *they will take care most of the stuffs for you for FREE*... If I'm applying for States, means I've t...

Get me out of here Pretty much a joke

API Hooking Ok, I admit it. I stumbled to these words once I read literatures on CWSandbox from Mannheim. Since in Nepenthes we can simply send the newly fetched binaries to the sandboxes, I was like triggered to know what was executed behind them. The method being called as API hooking. The other similar solution being used by Joebox, developed by postgrad student from Switzerland. Anubis from Vienna in the other way around use QEMU ... but if you google around you will see there is one paper written by Symantec researcher refuting on the usage of virtual machines.

Musing Since I got this tiny meenie D430 Lattitude now I always "read" downloaded PDF files while I rest on the sofa, or simply on the floor back home. Usually I checked for Mannheim PDF reports... seems they actively put their research works for e.g in the recent DIMVA 2008 . Apart from that UC Davis, or some other institution which have works on botnet/malware countermeasure, honeypot/net, security visualization (just recently since Bro Adli point it out) .. etc. I'm hardly to understand cryptographic stuffs due to several reasons..though I already took it once. It seems very theoretical which some other geeks might find that interesting, but not me. Usually I'll focus on the application part... but of course who knows I'll find the love on cryptography soon.