Monday, May 16, 2011

Keep your friends close and your passwords closer



With the continued growth of internet usage more and more people face a challenging problem. The more frequent you visit different websites, the greater the change you will have to create some account for that particular website. Gone are the good all days when you had just one account (email) and one password for your Windows/Linux/Mac. There is a mis-attributed quotation from Bill Gates "640K ought to be enough for anybody". I wonder if it refers to 640K of user credentials. Because honestly, while I'm not quite there, I don't have much to go.

Friday, June 25, 2010

At last…my greatest work…COMPLETED!!!!!


Finally, after months of endless work I finished writing my master thesis. It was not easy, but I fought it on the beaches, I fought it on the landing grounds, in the fields, in the streets and in the hills around Hagenberg. And I never surrendered. All that is left now is the defense of the thesis.

So, let me tell you a little bit about the topic of the thesis. My thesis title is “New Threats in Cloud Computing”. In it, we propose new threats that can arise from a SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) using Cloud Computing. The focus was on Client-Side threats especially pertaining to data leakage. I propose 12 threats in this thesis. I also propose some abstract solutions for mitigating these threats.

The thesis is about 130 pages long and contains a chapter about Cloud Computing, a chapter about Security in Cloud Computing, the problem statement and methodology, the suggested threats and a chapter about certain solution methods.

Unfortunately, it appears that I would not be able to post the thesis online because of legal issues with the company that funded my studies in ISI