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

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

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.

14-15th December, 2009
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa

*see the Academy brochure*

The Carnegie Mellon|Portugal Security and Dependability Academy is an opportunity for professionals of computer science and engineering or related areas, interested in improving their skills, to get in touch with the experts involved in the Dual Carnegie Mellon University – University of Lisboa Master of Science in Information Technology–Information Security (MSIT-IS).

The Academy will provide a sample of the topics taught during the MSIT-IS program through a set of exciting technical lectures and hands-on experiments in the program’s lab, where the attendees will get the chance to try live cyber-attack and defense technologies.

Although inspired by the MSIT-IS, the academy will be interesting on its own as a forum for discussion of the latest concepts in Security and Dependability.

After the lectures and laboratory experiments, the academy will close with the Pen Testing Trophy, where a victim machine will be subject to penetration testing by willing participants competing for a mysterious trophy.

Check the Program, Lectures details, Instructors, etc.

Miguel Garcia, Regeneração de Sistemas Informáticos Replicados, BSc internship (Co-advised with Alysson Neves Bessani), September 2008 – July 2009.

INForum 2009 – Computer and Communications Security Track, Sep 10-11, 2009.

Summary (in portuguese):

O INForum tem como objectivo ser um evento privilegiado de reunião da comunidade nacional nas diversas vertentes da informática e ambiciona ser o fórum de eleição para a divulgação, discussão e reconhecimento de trabalhos científicos. O INForum surge com particular oportunidade como palco para a estreia de jovens investigadores que buscam a divulgação, a crítica construtiva e o encorajamento ao seu trabalho.

O 1º INForum pretende ser abrangente e dinâmico no conjunto de tópicos abordados. Apresentará um conjunto de tópicos propostos e seleccionados anualmente, com sessões organizadas e realizadas de forma independente. Promove-se assim a massa crítica para o fortalecimento e evolução da informática no país criando-se, simultaneamente, espaço à evolução do contexto da conferência e fomentando a reunião de investigadores em áreas emergentes.

O 1º INForum decorrerá nos dias 10 e 11 de Setembro de 2009 na Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa.

WEST: Wormhole-Enhanced State Transfer
Rogério Correia, Paulo Sousa
In Proceedings of the DSN 2009 Workshop on Proactive Failure Avoidance, Recovery and Maintenance (PFARM), Estoril, Portugal, June 2009.

Enhancing Fault / Intrusion Tolerance through Design and Configuration Diversity
Alysson N. Bessani, Alessandro Daidone, Ilir Gashi, Rafael R. Obelheiro, Paulo Sousa, Vladimir Stankovic
In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Recent Advances on Intrusion-Tolerant Systems (WRAITS 2009), Estoril, Portugal, June 2009.