Current Activities

I am not currently involved in any teaching activities.

Past Activities

Guest Lectures

• University of Guelph (Winter 2017)
• One lecture on buffer overflows, including a live demo of a buffer overflow attack. A discussion of what makes a buffer overflow attack fragile, leading into mitigations and how they attempt to exploit the fragile pieces of an exploit
• One lecture on web vunerabilities, including a live demo of XSS, XSRF, SQL Injection, and command injection
• Two lectures on the proper use of cryptography, including asymetric keys, symmetric keys, hashing, entropy, and (the often overlooked importance of) random number generation
• University of Waterloo (Fall 2013)
• One lecture on BlackBerry research and usable security
• NC State University (Fall 2011)
• One lecture on BlackBerry research problems

Teaching Assistant

• COMP3000 - Operating Systems (Winter 2010)
• COMP4108 - Computer and System Security (Fall 2009)
• COMP4109 - Applied Cryptography (Winter 2009)
• COMP4108 - Computer Systems Security (Fall 2008)
• COMP3000 - Operating Systems (Winter 2008)
• COMP3000 - Operating Systems (Fall 2007)
• COMP3000 - Operating Systems (Winter 2007)
• COMP4108 - Computer Systems Security (Fall 2006)
• COMP3000 - Operating Systems (Winter 2006)
• COMP3000 - Operating Systems (Fall 2005)
• COMP2003 - Computer Organization (Winter 2005)
• COMP3000 - Operating Systems (Fall 2004)
• COMP3000 - Operating Systems (Winter 2004)
• COMP3000 - Operating Systems (Fall 2003)