Monday, August 31, 2015

Learn about Firefox Security - CSP

Topic: Learn about Firefox Security - CSP
Venue: VIIT 
Time: 12 pm to 6:00pm
Date: 29 August 2015
Hashtag: #FirefoxSecVIIT

Flickr Link:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/55210866@N05/20865639238/in/dateposted-public/


This event aims to cover Content Security Policies (CSP). What is CSP, How to use CSP while developing a websites. UserCSP add-on introduction on AMO given to the audience. 
We also given introduction of security features available in the Firefox web browser to the participants.  In addition, we have introduce them and tested security add-ons available on the AMO.  Total 34 participants attended the event. 


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= Was it worth it? =-
According to my knowledge, Yes. The audience was satisfied with the content of the event.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Research Publications

Research Publications:

A Measurement Study of the Content Security  Policy on Real-World Applications  [PDF]
Kailas Patil and Braun Frederik
International Journal of Network Security (IJNS),
Vol.18, No.2, PP.383-392, Mar. 2016


Towards Fine-Grained Access Control in JavaScript Contexts  [PDF]
Kailas Patil, Xinshu Dong, Xiaolei Li, Zhenkai Liang, and Xuxian Jiang.
In the 31st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS),
ISSN : 1063-6927
E-ISBN : 978-0-7695-4364-2
Print ISBN: 978-1-61284-384-1
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS.2011.87


Survey on Access Control Mechanism in Android  [PDF]
Shekhar K. Shende, Kailas R. Patil
International Journal of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Systems (IJEECS),
ISSN (Online): 2347-2820, Volume -3, Issue-4 2015


Survey on Privacy Preserving Mobile Health Monitoring System using  Cloud Computing [PDF]
Abhijeet S. Kurle,  Kailas R. Patil
International Journal of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Systems (IJEECS)
ISSN (Online): 2347-2820, Volume -3, Issue-4 2015


Poster: UserCSP-User Specified Content Security Policies [PDF]
Kailas Patil, T Vyas, F Braun, M Goodwin, Z Liang
In the proceedings of the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2013

FxOS APP Contribution Workshop- Test, Review and Develop apps on Tarako Devices

Topic: FxOS APP Contribution Workshop- Test, Reviewhotoand Develop apps on Tarako Devices
Venue: VIIT 
Time: 12 pm to 6:00pm
Date: 22 August 2015
Hashtag: #appreviewviitpune
Flickr Link:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/55210866@N05/tags/appreviewviitpune/


This event focused on to teach audience: how to create an App using Appmaker. In addition, this event also aim to introduced Firefox Marketplace to the audience and taught them how to download and test apps from the Firefox Marketplace. 

Total 55 people participated in the event. During the event participants submitted reviews for total 31 apps available on Firefox Marketplace. After introducing the participant APPMaker, we conducted a competition for APP development. We declared four winners based on useful apps created by the participants. For all four winners we gave Mozilla FirefoxOS T-shirts and Mozilla googles. 

Output of the Event:
1) Total 26 New FSA recruited.
2) All participants became member of VIIT Firefox Club
3) Total 31 apps reviewed on Firefox Marketplace
4) Good apps are created during the event such as roller coaster, NCERT (Xth), minesweeper, Heath advisor, SE engg programing guide, etc. Participants are requested to submit it  on Marketplace after giving it a final touch and testing its functionality. 


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= Was it worth it? =-
According to my knowledge, Yes. The audience was satisfied with the content of the event.

-= Should we go again? =-
Yes. I feel its worth the investment.