Interesting links about my Fulbright
Here are some links that pertain to my recently concluded Fulbright grant:
Here are some links that pertain to my recently concluded Fulbright grant:
A few days before we left Malta, we frantically tried to catch up with Maltese food tasting. We finally realized that we have been missing the best local gastronomy: fried-rabbit. We were very glad to have tried it and to not wonder how it really taste like. Indeed, it was very good!
I gave a lecture on Digital Forensics at the US Embassy to 10 Malta Police officers -
Last Friday, May 25, I delivered two lectures at the Legal Frameworks for Information and Communication Technology Workshop held in the Victoria Hotel at Sliema. The two-week workshop was organized by the Commonwealth Network of
May 24, Thursday was the due date for the APT Project report and implementation demo. I am very satisfied with the quality of work that the students managed to deliver. A few went over and beyond what was required. I started reading some of the reports and noticed, at least the ones that I have read, that the students write concisely and clearly.
Excusez-moi for this posting. I am doing some experimental work on SPAM agents.
I delivered a lecture titled "Digital Forensics" yesterday at MCAST. I had the largest number of attendees from both MCAST and UoM. The conference facility at the Commerce and Business Department in Paola is really nice. It is equipped with a state-of-the-art audio visual system and a wireless microphone. I felt very comfortable moving around during the lecture.
After doing business with those three merchants, they came to know me by face. Last week I finally managed to know them personally. The butcher (Joseph) visited the Florida during his honeymoon and was not pleased with the coldness of the people that he encountered. I tried to explain to him that that attitude in prevalent in any big city in the USA. The grocer barely talks. Most of the answers I got are yes, no, and goodbye :(. The veggie man drives around the neighborhood with his truck full of fresh produce, bottled water, and eggs (they don't refrigerate eggs so we make sure that we cook them thoroughly). We buy bottled water (6-pack of 1.5L bottle) every week because tap water is not drinkable. It cost me LM1 and a lot of muscle strain hauling the water to our 3rd floor flat. During our first three weeks, we were boiling water for our coffee and tasted some hint of saltiness. I didn't realize that the water is not fit for drinking nor cooking until a student started describing their water filtration system. It really didn't hurt us except for a slight elevation in blood pressure ;). I guess the rule is "When in doubt...ask a native"
My APT students are progressing very well. I had several one-on-one sessions this week for clarification, technical advisement, and progress report. At UoM, I noticed that most students are very proficient in programming and problem solving. This type of student preparation makes it much easier to offer a number of APT courses in a semester's time. CS students at JSU should take notice :)
We finally made to the sister island of Malta--Gozo. It is quite an amazing place to visit. The churches and museum are magnificent! We didn't get to the Prehistoric temples of Ggantija which are documented to be the oldest free-standing structure in the world (about 3600 BC). It is older than the Pyramids of Egypt (2500BC), the Acropolis (600BC), and the Hanging gardens of Babylon (605BC). We'll make sure that we get there next time.
This week, I have completed the description and testing of four Computer Security projects for MCAST. These are hands-on laboratory projects that cover system reconnaissance, packet capture and analysis, Log monitoring, penetration testing, vulnerability analysis, and web and system hacking. The instructors are scheduled to be trained on these projects in May. A digital forensics laboratory exercise is currently under development.