Security | Fitness | Mindfulness
24 October 2021
In this short post, I’ll share why I think fear is generally good and self-doubt is not. This post is inspired by one of the chapters in the book Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness by Tim Grover where Tim makes some very convincing arguments in favor of Fear and how it is very common in top athletes he’s trained.
"Fear is excitement without breath." - Robert Heller
Fear is of something unknown,...
01 November 2015
Back when I was pursuing my Master’s, I gave a small presentation on how SSL/TLS protocol has been affected by various protocol specific attacks, how these issues have been patched, and, most importantly, what could have prevented SSL/TLS from these attacks. I tried explaining these issues in the form a “story”. Since I’ve not been able to write anything new, I thought it’d be a good idea to share this presentation here. Here is the presentation...
28 June 2015
Same Origin Policy is one of the most important security concepts implemented in all modern browsers. It is a set of mechanisms which control how a script loaded from one origin can interact with a resource from another origin. Mozilla Developer Network provides a good summary of Same Origin Policy. It permits an origin to send information to another origin, but does not permit an origin to receive information from another origin. In short, it...
19 April 2015
Since this is my first security related blog post (ever), I would like to write about one of the most important things that I learnt during my grad school: security is all about context. This is exactly one of those important lessons that we learn, as a student, and don’t realize their importance until we apply them to the real world problems. It has been almost 3 months since I’ve started working as a full-time Security...
07 January 2015
Hola amigos!
This is just a cliché hello world! post. To know about me and why I’ve started this website, please visit the about section. I wanted to start my blog with a technical (security related) post, but I’ve not been able to read anything interesting, as I’m currently enjoying most of my time with my family in India. Anyways, I’ll just give a quick introduction to what you can expect from the website.
This...