nation.state.actor
I recently took the stage at DEF CON 32 to introduce the cutting-edge field of Mechanistic Interpretability to the reverse engineering community. This fascinating area, which focuses on decoding the inner workings of AI systems, bridges the gap between traditional reverse engineering and the latest advancements in artificial intelligence. Below I’ve included the abstract from the talk along with…
Back in my pre-grad school days, I loved competing in security capture the flag (CTF) competitions. I frequently competed with RPISEC and led the Lab RATs team to DEF CON CTF finals before I “retired” to focus on my PhD. I loved the challenge of reverse engineering and exploitation puzzles, but knew I wouldn’t have time to focus on them during grad school.
A system running Intel’s McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Linux can be compromised by remote attackers due to a number of security vulnerabilities. Some of these vulnerabilities can be chained together to allow remote code execution as root.