whois ithilgore:
Fotis Chantzis, aka ithilgore, is a computer security engineer with a
strong background in software development and a research focus on
network protocol vulnerabilities, advanced network exploitation
techniques and IoT. His research interests have also revolved around high-performance network
programming, network stack implementations and kernel internals. Lately, he switched his focus on securing cloud infrastructure
- CI/CD pipelines, containers and orchestrators.
His work includes exploiting the TCP Persist Timer to magnify the
effect of a classic network attack (paper published on Phrack #66), the
development of Ncrack, a high-speed network authentication tool with a dynamic
and optimized timing engine under the Nmap toolset and inventing a new
stealthy port scanning attack by abusing the popular XMPP.
Beyond these, he has a passion for gathering knowledge on literally everything
on the multiverse, studying books from a wide variety of topics and exploring
new fields and ideas on a daily basis.
Always eager to hear about new ideas, suggestions, comments and intelligent
feedback on the field of network security or on ways to get more out of life by
hacking every tiny bit of it, you can contact ithilgore at:
chantzis.fotios () gmail.com || ithilgore () sock-raw.org || ithilgore.ryu.L () gmail.com
Encrypted communication is preferred: GPG key
You can also take a look at my CV if you have an interesting proposition.
sock_raw is ithilgore's personal web site and projects'
main connect(2)ion to the outer world. If you are already
wondering where the name actually stems from, you can always rtm of
socket(2). Here is a a quick definition however: SOCK_RAW is one
of the ultimate powers the OS can give you over doing some serious
stuff on low level network programming. It is the ability to create and
send your own hand-crafted network packets, filling manually all header
fields with whatever values you want. Most serious network security
tools are based on or certainly use this powerful sockets API capability.
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