Hash Visualization-a New Technique to improve RealWorld Security
Current security systems suffer from the fact that they fail to account for human factors. This paper considers two human limitations: First, people are slow and unreliable when comparing meaningless strings; and second, people have diculties in remembering strong passwords or PINs. We identify two applications where these human factors negatively a ect security: Validation […]
Real Time Environmental Monitoring and Notification for Public Safety
Threats to public safety and health from environmental hazards such as polluted air and excessive heat, cold, and flooding emerge regularly, as shown by the 2005 Katrina disaster in New Orleans, the 2008 coal ash spill in Tennessee in the US, and other national and international environmental events. The magnitude of the Tennessee coal ash […]
Survey on Virtual Machine Security
Virtualization plays a major role in helping the organizations to reduce the operational cost, and still ensuring improved efficiency, better utilization and flexibility of existing hardware. “Virtualization is both an opportunity and a threat – says Patrick Lin, Senior director of Product Management for VMware” [4]. This paper presents a literature study on various security […]