Archive for October, 2006

Top Engineering Colleges in USA !!

October 29, 2006

 Ranking by graduateshotline.com 2006

S.No     University/College
1     Massachusetts Inst of Technology
2     Stanford University
3     University of California-Berkeley
4     California Institute Technology
5     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
6     Georgia Institute of Technology
7     University of Michigan
8     Cornell University
9     Carnegie Mellon University
10     University of Texas at Austin
11     Purdue University
12     University of California- San Diego
13     University of California- Los Angeles
14     Texas A&M University
15     Princeton University
16     Pennsylvania State University
17     University of Wisconsin-Madison
18     University of Maryland College Park
19     Harvard University
20     University of California-Santa Barbara
21     University of Southern California
22     University of Minnesota
23     Northwestern University
24     Johns Hopkins University
25     Virginia Polytech Inst & State University
26     Ohio State University
27     University of Virginia
28     Columbia University (FU)
29     University of Pennsylvania
30     Duke University
31     Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst
32     North Carolina State University
33     Rice University
34     University of Washington
35     University of Florida
36     University of California-Davis
37     Washington University -St. Louis
38     Yale University
39     University of Massachusetts at Amherst
40     Michigan State University
41     Iowa State University
42     University of Arizona
43     University of California-Irvine
44     University of Colorado-Boulder
45     Case Western Reserve University
46     Rutgers State University-New Brunswick
47     University of Notre Dame
48     Lehigh university
49     Northeastern University
50     University of Rochester
51     University of Delaware
52     University of Iowa
53     Brown University
54     Arizona State University
55     Drexel University

Where has your GRE score placed you !!

October 29, 2006

This is just the usual trend……..

GRE>1600 (or V+Q>1050) TOEFL>213 GPA>3/4
CSUN, FDU, Widener, Bridgeport (GRE not reqd. for Engg.), North Texas, Cal State Chico, NDSU

GRE>1700 (or V+Q>1100) TOEFL>213 GPA>3/4
SJSU, Bradley, Texas A&M Kingsville, Western Michigan, FIT, with Good TOEFL or GPA SJSU, Portland State University….

GRE>1800 (or V+Q>1200) TOEFL>213 GPA>3/4
Wayne S.U., IIT Chicago, Texas Tech University, University of Houston, Dayton, Mississippi State, With Good TOEFL/GPA West Virginia, New Mexico State, Utah State, UT-Arlington, UT Dallas, U-Kentucky, UM-Rolla (above 1850), Auburn (above 1850), NJIT, Toledo…

GRE>1900 (or V+Q>1250) TOEFL>213 GPA>3/4
SUNY SB, LSU, Boston University, U Utah (Competitive), Arizona, ASU, Cincinnati, Clemson, SUNY Buffalo, Tennessee Knoxville, Washington S.U., UMBC, Worcester Poly, Syracuse, Oregon State (EE may be tough)..

GRE>2000 (or V+Q>1300) TOEFL>250 GPA>3/4
North Carolina S.U., Michigan S.U. (V. Low acceptance rate), Iowa State, USC, UM Amherst (V. Low acceptance rate), University of Illinois Chicago, Texas A&M, V Tech., Vanderbilt University( (V. Low acceptance rate).

GRE>2100 (V+Q=1400+) TOEFL>250 GPA>3/4
UCSD, RPI, U-Washington, U Virginia, MIT, Berkley, UT Austin
Courtesty: College Finder 

GRE Prep Book !!

October 29, 2006

Probably if you are wondering about a good book to start for your GRE prep…. May be you could try this one……. its really cool……Nova Gre Book !!.

If you want to download it right click the link and click save target as….. or its equivalent..

Using Google to Find Security Bugs !!

October 20, 2006

Reviewing software for security bugs is a highly recommended best practice. There are various techniques for doing source code reviews, one of them being “static code analysis” which (in most cases) involves the use of a ‘grepping’ (pattern matching) tool along with a database of patterns that indicate potential security flaws. There are disadvantages to static code analysis: high rate of false positives and the inability to detect logic errors that may lead to security bugs. That said, static code analysis tools can be used to perform a quick first pass on the source code to detect bugs that can be easily identified by a grepping technique (“low hanging fruit”). Some of the free static code analyzers (security) are: Flawfinder, RATS, and SWAAT.

The idea is query Google Code Search using techniques previously reserved for local static code analysis. Here are a few interesting queries:

- SQL Injection in Java caused by executing a dynamic SQL query with user supplied input: link0

- SQL Injection in PHP caused by executing a dynamic SQL query with user supplied input: link1

- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Java caused by echoing user supplied input without HTML encoding: link1.2

- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in PHP caused by echoing user supplied input without HTML encoding it: link2

See the resources below for more details and queries:

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Google in my opinion is the most handy & the most powerfull hacking tool.Use it smartly