Network, Security and System Lab Rats Reading Group Google Group

Fwd: Electrical Shutdown Tuesday Night

t...@students.poly.edu (Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy) — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:38:26 UT

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Dear Faculty, Staff and Students:

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Dear Faculty, Staff and Students:

As some of you are aware, last Friday scattered power failures occurred

Scalable Byzantine Fault Tolerance

t...@students.poly.edu (Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy) — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:13:54 UT

Today, Siddhartha Sen came to talk to the Poly theory seminar about his
work on scalable BFT. I thought they might be of some interest to our group.

They are three works which discuss simple heuristics, backed with theory
(like Tarjan's union-find disjoint set data structure), to solve some

A back-to-basic paper list from Werner Vogels, might be interesting to you.

litao.a...@gmail.com (Tao Li) — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:58:37 UT

[link]

Werner Vogels: CTO of Amazon.

privacy-related survey

egkes...@students.poly.edu (Eleni Gessiou) — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 05:29:46 UT

Hello all!!

we're doing a survey which goal is to draw correlations between people's personality, risk perception and their privacy attitude.

It should take less than 20' minutes and consists of 4 main parts:
1. demographic questions
2. personality test
3. questions related to your facebook's privacy settings

Re: [Sysrats] Guest Presentation at Tomorrow's Reading Group

mon...@gmail.com (Monzur Muhammad) — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:57:28 UT

Reminder, we have a reading group today at 2PM and we are going to have a
guest give presentation on their research work. Please try to attend if you
are around.

Thanks,
Monzur M.

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy <

Re: [Sysrats] Guest Presentation at Tomorrow's Reading Group

t...@students.poly.edu (Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy) — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:47:41 UT

Sorry, I don't think I can be there today, I'm a bit unwell.

Re: [Sysrats] Internet Explorer Data Leakage

hockeyinj...@isis.poly.edu (Julian Cohen) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:08:14 UT

You guys should read [link]

Julian

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy

Internet Explorer Data Leakage

t...@students.poly.edu (Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:01:26 UT

Interesting discovery:

"""
As a user of Internet Explorer, your mouse movements can be recorded by
an attacker even if you are security conscious and you never install any
untoward software. An attacker can get access to your mouse movements
simply by buying a display ad slot on any webpage you visit. This is not

Guest Presentation at Tomorrow's Reading Group

mon...@gmail.com (Monzur Muhammad) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:33:19 UT

Hello everyone,

Tomorrow we will have Aman Singh and Professor Gaston Ormazabal come visit
us from Columbia to give a talk about their research tomorrow during our
usual Sysrats meeting at 2PM. Please try to come by to show your support!

Thanks,
Monzur M.

Re: [Sysrats] Google App Verification Service Detects Only 15% of Infected Apps

litao.a...@gmail.com (Tao Li) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:48:43 UT

found an answer by t...@chromium.org<[link]>
from the thread above:

[link]
"*The crash is due to faulty logic responsible for handling "throttled"
data types on the client when the data types are unrecognized.*"

Re: [Sysrats] Google App Verification Service Detects Only 15% of Infected Apps

t...@students.poly.edu (Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:35:12 UT

Final comment; nope, it did crash the browser.

"""
Chrome prides itself on “sandboxing” itself, so that a problem with a
single webpage can only crash a tab in the browser, and not bring down
the entire program. But that’s just what happened with Monday’s bug. It
clobbered the entire browser.

Re: [Sysrats] Google App Verification Service Detects Only 15% of Infected Apps

t...@students.poly.edu (Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:29:42 UT

Interesting: [link]

However, it only seems like a crashed thread, not a crashed browser.

Re: [Sysrats] Google App Verification Service Detects Only 15% of Infected Apps

egkes...@students.poly.edu (Eleni Gessiou) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:32:26 UT

FYI:
[link]

Re: [Sysrats] Google App Verification Service Detects Only 15% of Infected Apps

litao.a...@gmail.com (Tao Li) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:40:58 UT

gmail was down for a while.

Best Wishes,
Tao

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy <

Re: [Sysrats] Google App Verification Service Detects Only 15% of Infected Apps

t...@students.poly.edu (Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:39:46 UT

Looks like this is a self-published experiment.

By the way, did anyone whose Chrome is synced with their Google account
experience crashes around noon today?

[link]