Category Archives for tech
Android Security related tools
A lot of work is happening in academia and industry on tools to perform dynamic analysis, static analysis and reverse engineering of android apps. Following is a collection of few tools that I am aware of.
Book Review: The Tangled web
Just completed reading “The Tangled web: A guide to securing modern applications” by Michael Zalewski. The book is surprisingly small given the amount of information it covers about interaction of web browsers, web sites and client-side web technologies. The book … Continue reading
Book Summary: In the Plex by Steven Levy
An amazing book which describes Google’s journey right from its beginning in the Stanford dorm. The author interviewed several top echelons of Google and presented several interesting insider anecdotes and stories of Google. The book provides details of major projects … Continue reading
Towards a broken future of Internet
Internet, which initially started as a DARPA experiment is [still] under the indirect control of USA government through ICANN despite several objections from Europe as well as IBSA. This worked when most users were from the western world with notable exception of … Continue reading
A fundamental problem with Aakash (Indian Government tablet initiative)
This blog post is not about how good/bad the product technically is or how indigenous it is, its about a fundamental problem with tablets. It amazes me to see that even a journalist like T. Friedman missed it. Anyone who had ever … Continue reading
Random thoughts: goals and company types in tech world
Start-up One goal May have multiple products but all products aimed at a single goal. All teams are working towards the same goal. Diversified Multiple similar goals Have several products (or several part of single product) aimed towards different goals. … Continue reading
How do you store my password?
As world moves towards cloud based storage (and computing), the task of storing our data on a PC hard disk is being replaced with cloud based storage providers. This includes our emails, social data, professional data and financial data. Accessing … Continue reading
Preliminary analysis of Facebook clickjacking (aprilfoolsprank)
If you have been already a victim of this, then change your password and unlike the page as soon as possible. A malicious app called “aprilfoolsprank” which likes a page on user’s behalf and tries to phish user into disclosing his/her … Continue reading
EA Sports vs Zynga : the battle for games in smartphone era
Zynga’s market valuation has surpassed EA Sports market evaluation. Even though EA Sports is trying hands in social and acquired Playfish, their main source of revenue is still video games. Though, the current user base of EA Sports (35 million) does not look impressive … Continue reading
FOSS (Free and Open Source Code) Licensing FAQ
There are two choices while writing on this topic, to write a detailed (and accurate) or to write a concise (but avoid all details) post, I preferred latter and have added appropriate links to dig further. To whom is this … Continue reading