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Cyrus Peikari

Dr. Cyrus Peikari finished his undergraduate training with honors in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University in 1991. For eight years Dr. Peikari taught advanced mathematics at the SMU Learning Enhancement Center in Dallas, TX. He has also worked as a telecommunications software research and development engineer for Alcatel. Dr. Peikari has several patents pending in the anti-virus and mobile security fields.

In addition, he has published several award winning security software programs, including an Encrypted Instant Messenger, a Personal Firewall, a Content Filter and a suite of Network Connectivity Tools. He has co-authored five technical books on information security, three of them as lead author. He is also a frequent speaker at technical information security conferences. Dr. Peikari is currently the CEO of Airscanner Corporation, which is a hard-core mobile security software research and development team. He can be reached at contact@airscanner.com

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Informit.com's 2007 Guide to Building the Ultimate Gaming Machine on a Budget, Part 3
Jun 8, 2007
2.
Informit.com's 2007 Guide to Building the Ultimate Gaming Machine on a Budget, Part 2
Jun 1, 2007
3.
Informit.com's 2007 Guide to Building the Ultimate Gaming Machine on a Budget, Part 1
May 25, 2007
4.
Informit's 2006 Guide to Building the Ultimate Gaming PC on a Budget: Revenge of the Dual-Core, SLI Machine, Part 1
May 19, 2006
5.
Informit's 2006 Guide to Building the Ultimate Gaming PC on a Budget: Revenge of the Dual-Core, SLI Machine, Part 2
May 19, 2006
6.
Informit's 2006 Guide to Building the Ultimate Gaming PC on a Budget: Revenge of the Dual-Core, SLI Machine, Part 3
May 19, 2006
7.
Analyzing the Crossover Virus: The First PC to Windows Handheld Cross-infector
Mar 8, 2006
8.
How To Build the Ultimate Windows Media Center 2005 Machine on a Budget, Part 3
Nov 4, 2005
9.
How To Build the Ultimate Windows Media Center 2005 Machine on a Budget, Part 2
Oct 28, 2005
10.
How To Build the Ultimate Windows Media Center 2005 Machine on a Budget, Part 1
Oct 21, 2005
11.
Securing Your Wireless PDA Connection
Mar 18, 2005
12.
Fighting Fire with Fire: Designing a "Good" Computer Virus
Oct 15, 2004
13.
Reverse-Engineering the First Pocket PC Trojan, Part 2
Oct 8, 2004
14.
Monster-Mod: Passive Convection CPU Water-Cooling (Part 4 of 4)
Oct 1, 2004
15.
Reverse-Engineering the First Pocket PC Trojan, Part 1
Oct 1, 2004
16.
Monster-Mod: Passive Convection CPU Water-Cooling (Part 3 of 4)
Sep 24, 2004
17.
Details Emerge on the First Windows Mobile Virus (Part 3 of 3)
Sep 17, 2004
18.
Monster-Mod: Passive Convection CPU Water-Cooling (Part 2 of 4)
Sep 17, 2004
19.
Details Emerge on the First Windows Mobile Virus (Part 2 of 3)
Sep 10, 2004
20.
Monster-Mod: Passive Convection CPU Water-Cooling (Part 1 of 4)
Sep 10, 2004
21.
Details Emerge on the First Windows Mobile Virus (Part 1 of 3)
Sep 3, 2004
22.
Monster-Mod: How To Wear Your Computer, Part 3
Aug 20, 2004
23.
Live from Quakecon 2004
Aug 13, 2004
24.
Monster-Mod: How To Wear Your Computer, Part 2
Aug 13, 2004
25.
Monster-Mod: How To Wear Your Computer, Part 1
Aug 6, 2004
26.
Summer Brings Mosquito-Borne Malware (Part 3 of 3)
Aug 6, 2004
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Summer Brings Mosquito-Borne Malware (Part 2 of 3)
Jul 30, 2004
28.
Summer Brings Mosquito-Borne Malware (Part 1 of 3)
Jul 23, 2004
29.
How To Build the Ultimate Gaming System on a Budget, Part 4: Putting It All Together
May 28, 2004
30.
How To Build the Ultimate Gaming System on a Budget, Part 3: Choosing the Graphics Card
May 21, 2004
31.
How To Build the Ultimate Gaming System on a Budget, Part 2: Choosing the Motherboard
May 7, 2004
32.
How To Build the Ultimate Gaming System on a Budget, Step by Step, Part 1
Apr 30, 2004
33.
For Wireless Security, First Understand Wireless Programming
Feb 14, 2003
34.
SQL Server Attacks: Hacking, Cracking, and Protection Techniques
Nov 29, 2002
35.
Buy Microsoft, Go to Jail?
Nov 15, 2002
36.
The Ingredients to ARP Poison
Oct 18, 2002
37.
Going on the Defensive: Intrusion-Detection Systems
Oct 4, 2002
38.
Securing Information Internet Server
Sep 13, 2002

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