Cyber Security: Sparse coding and anomaly detection

Posted on by David Vassallo

I've recently published the thesis I wrote in fulfillment of my Masters in Computer Security, entitled BioRFID: A Patient Identification System using Biometrics and RFID Anyone interested can download and read the whole thesis here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317646400_BioRFID_A_Patient_Identification_System_using_Biometrics_and_RFID In this article I'll give an extremely compressed version of the thesis and how the work therein can be … Continue reading Cyber Security: Sparse coding and anomaly detection

Bleeding edge: The intersection of Bitcoin and cyber-security

Posted on by David Vassallo

The good, the bad, & the ugly... There are some very obvious connections between bitcoin and cybersecurity; almost every hacker who blackmails their victims via ransomware or whatever other hack demand payment in bitcoin. This is the ugly side of bitcoin and cybersec; by it's very nature bitcoin is pseudo-anonymous (read: difficult to trace), decentralized (read: difficult … Continue reading Bleeding edge: The intersection of Bitcoin and cyber-security