An article I wrote two years ago (2009) for Atomium Culture was accepted one year ago (2010) and as a consequence it will be published in many European newspapers.

I’ll be adding here the links to the articles as they get published:

• El Pais (Spain)
• http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2011/10/28/actualidad/

• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany)
• http://www.faz.net/artikel/C31277/schutzbeduerftige-it-systeme-einst-sehr-sicher-heute-unsicher-30435904.html

• Der Standard (Austria)
• http://derstandard.at/1304551384181/Avoiding-a-cyber-triggered-catastrophe

Next scheduled publications:

• Irish Times (Ireland)
• Rzcespospolita (Poland)

In 2008, Miguel P. Correia and myself decided to write a book on software security. Two years (of really hard work) after, it is finally available!

The book covers many themes related to software security, namely:

• Vulnerabilities, Attacks and Intrusions
• Buffer overflows, Cross-site scripting, SQL injection
• Protecting against Copy and Modification of Software
• Software Testing and Attack Injection
• Static Code Analysis
• Dynamic Protection Mechanisms
• Virtualization
• Trusted Computing

More details about the book (in portuguese) can be found at its official website, at the publisher (FCA) website, and it can be bought online at FCA | FNAC | Wook

Bruno Quaresma, Serviço de Armazenamento Tolerante a Intrusões, Master/Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (co-advised with Alysson Neves Bessani), September 2010.

João Catarino de Sousa, Typhon: um Serviço de Autenticação e Autorização Tolerante a Intrusões, Master/Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (co-advised with Alysson Neves Bessani), July 2010.

ReD is a two-year research project (Apr 2010-Mar 2012) funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

If you feel that you are up to this challenge, please apply:

http://lasige.di.fc.ul.pt/images/2/2b/BI_Regenesys_Mestre_jan10-1.pdf

Deadline: 26-March-2010

Highly Available Intrusion-Tolerant Services with Proactive-Reactive Recovery
Paulo Sousa, Alysson Neves Bessani, Miguel Correia, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Paulo Veríssimo
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 452-465, Apr. 2010.

REGENESYS is a three-year research project (Jan 2010-Dec 2012) funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

We have scholarships available to Master and PhD students that want to participate in this project. If you are interested in participating in this project, please send me an email.

Carlos Silva, RAVE: Replicated Antivirus Engine, Mestrado em Segurança Informática (University of Lisboa) & Master Of Science in Information Technology – Information Security (Carnegie Mellon University), December 2009.

SMaRt is a high performance Byzantine-fault-tolerant state machine replication protocol developed in Java with simplicity and robustness as primary requirements. Our main objective is to provide a code base that can be used to build dependable services and also extended to create new protocols.

Check the most recent release at http://code.google.com/p/bft-smart/