I am a Systems / Security Administrator and Software Developer for ODU;
as well as an independant security researcher.
News!! (newest first)
Jun. 02, 2008
A vulnerability in crontab [Sun Alert (#237864)] may allow hijacking of other user's crontabs.
Also, it's a little late but I am now under the employ of OCCS as a Security Administrator. I have updated my contact
information above to reflect this.
Jul. 25, 2007
Two pieces of news today. First, A Sun Alert (#102948) has been published in the Low Bandwidth X Proxy,
(see "Securiy Research" section). Secondly, I am announcing the release of a piece of the upcoming Toolkit/Tutoral "Modding Windows XP Pro"; this peice being a URI-Handler for SSH:// URLs. Does your system handle this already? It could..
May. 13, 2007
I am developing a new project based on what I call "Credential Transference". This is the concept of remote users granting authentication credentials to a local user in a secure manner (Where the local user might not even know the credentials once granted). Please see here for more information about project Phantom.
During the summer semester I will be devoting much time to the projects that you might see somewhere on this site (This one, "hashtable", NTuples, DashFTP, etc). Look for news bulletins for more information and release announcements!
Feb. 28, 2007
The web site you are viewing is Valid HTML 4.01 Strict.
The CSS used is also Valid CSS. Most sites (Microsoft, even Sun, and the search-gods themselves; Google) are not.
You can read all the results of popular websites, both pass and fails, here. A very exciting read!
Feb. 14, 2007
I have spent some time optimizing the association engine in my database (Now dubbed NTuples).
It is now 31.33813x faster. NTuples now outperforms Oracle in tables up to 26 columns.
Oct. 30, 2006
I have been looking into mobile development, see here for a guide on ringone creation and GCDs. I am also working on a midlet (java) FTP application called DashFTP.
Aug. 23, 2006
SSH Tectia Windows Pathname Parsing Vulnerability. Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in multiple SSH Tectia products
Aug. 03, 2006
As of a few weeks ago, I have moved jobs. I am now an iStart Research Assistant under Dr. Levinstein.
Apr. 12, 2006
I will be doing a lecture on hashing and hash tables today for CS361.
you can find it here.
You may also find my source code of a
hash table template
and
implementation.
Apr. 03, 2006
I started coding my N-dimensional database today.
When it is finished, it will be on CPAN.
numref = cn**d + cn**(d-1) + ... + cn**2 + cn + c
Feb. 28, 2006
I am now doing charity work with the cryptogram club at Granby High School, supplying puzzles and activities.
Find them here.
Nov. 8, 2005
`sudo` patchlevel 12 fixes an exploitable environment sanitizing problem with perl. (look to the side)
Jun. 20, 2005
`sudo` patchlevel 9 fixes an exploitable race condition that I found
in the pathname validation routine. (look to the side)