Re: IT Security project

[Rico Secada <coolzone () it dk>]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:27:19 +0200
"Charis" <cycharis () yahoo gr> wrote:

> I am a student who is doing his MSc in IT Security. I would be really
> grateful if someone could pass me some ideas about the project that I
> have to do. I am really thinking of it continuously but I can't think
> of something! I have a good knowledge of networks and programming
> (specially in java) and I am looking for something not so
> theoretical, I prefer to implement something. 

Unless you insist on doing something with Java, you could setup a web
server running Apache, and then run a project of SQL injections.

Website security is a warm and important subject.

You could use PHP.

> I was thinking about a project on smart cards, implementation of
> webserver on a javacard. This seems good for me, but I am looking for
> any other ideas, which may deal with penetration testing,  or
> anything else that I could use programming for it.
> Waiting for your ideas!
> Thanks in advance,
> Charis Florides