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OWASP AppSec Conf Delhi - Day 2; and more

The pictures of Day 2 are here.
The second day consisted of 6 workshops - 3 before lunch and 3 after. I was confused on choosing between Sheeraj Shah and Mano Paul’s workshops during the first half; and Jason Li’s talk on “Web 2.0  Security” and “Secure Code Review” workshop (originally by Dinis Cruz, but conducted [...]

OWASP AppSec Conf Delhi - Day 1

Special Note: I don’t have my Canon EOS 350D with me nowadays, so I had to borrow my roomates Canon Powershot. The quality sucks, but still, the pictures are here.
I’ll be honest, going by the conf prices and some of the talk titles; I was expecting OWASP AppSec Delhi to be targeted mainly for [...]

No more lectures now…

Randy Pausch, fondly known as the Last Lecture Guy, is no more.
If you have not heard of him, I suggest you watch his “last lecture”. A summary of the lecture and Randy Pausch’s life can be read here.

p.s.:
@Johnny: Thanks for updating me.
@Slashdot-ters: Thanks for not making stupid and mean remarks this time.
@Randy Pausch: Rest In [...]

SecurCamp and back.

I spent the first half of the day at SecurCamp -1 (or Security Barcamp). It always great to get together with the community and today was no different. It came a sweet surprise to me that I have quite a few acquaintances in the community. The best part of the whole day, however, was getting [...]

Reviving OWASP Bangalore Chapter

The OWASP Bangalore Chapter met after almost an year today, and I was priviledged to be a part of it. As happens often with technical groups, including LUGs (Linux User Groups), they tend to loose participation and go to indefinite hibernation mode. OWASP-Bangalore’s fate was no different.

Anyhoo! The important point is that we finally met [...]

Bittu’s back :)

Bittu, my wife, got revamped. For unemotional people, it simply means I bought a new laptop
She is red, and she’s hot!

She’s a Dell XPS M1330. Other features include:
1. Intel Core-2 Duo, 2.1 GHz (My first intel. I used to be with AMD)
2. 200GB HD , 7200rpm
3. 128 MB Nvidia graphics card (the games [...]

iHacker

I have a special likeness for T-Shirt with quotes. More Geeky the quote, more geekier… I mean better.
I got this T-Shirt made for myself a couple of days ago.
I case you didn’t get, it’s a mockery of the crippled iPhone.

Oh by the way, this is my first post on the new blog, and this pic [...]

How about a Better & Cheaper MacBook Air!

Those were the days when I used to be a Apple fan.
aah.. the harsh reality that they produce nothing more than crippled products at sky-high prices.

Moreover, Apple isn’t just about cut-throat business. It’s also about making people feel bad about themselves.
Don’t trust me?
See here yourself.

A Phish floating in Google Survey!

Demo
1. Phizy-Phizy-Phizy
I have always loved making this phizy-phizy-phizy sound purposelessly, which I once heard in a Rob Schneider movie (which, if I remember correctly, was a pathetic movie). Anyhoo! I, now, have a set of very strong reasons to move around repeating the same lines.
First, we received a request to be involved in a [...]

Yahoo!’s javascript based media player!

Yahoo! launched it browser based media player written in javascript. All you have to do is link the javascript code (located at http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js) in a web page having links to audio file(s) .
Although it takes a while for the “player” to load completely, yet I am pretty okay with it (for now). Moreover, it’s in [...]