Alfredo Adrian Ortega

Current

• Exploit Writer Senior at Core Security
• Security Researcher at Core Security Technologies

Past

• Speaker at Security Conferences
• Programmer at Sierra S.R.L
• Sysadmin at REPAC, Red Patagónica Universitaria

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Education

• Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
• Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco
• Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco

• E.N.E.T. Nº1
• E.N.E.T. N°1

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Industry

Computer & Network Security

Alfredo Adrian Ortega’s Summary

Argentine born, I like computers.

Alfredo Adrian Ortega’s Specialties:

Programming: c, c++, assembler, Unix, Linux, Java, J2ME, Embedded devices.
Security, reversing, cryptography, computer science.

Alfredo Adrian Ortega’s Experience

• Exploit Writer Senior

  Core Security

  (Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)

  September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux platform manager

• Security Researcher

  Core Security Technologies

  (Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)

  September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  Non-exhaustive list of published advisories:
  
  * ProFTPD "mod_ctrld" privilege scalation
  * Synce Remote command Injection
  * Firebird Multiple Vulnerabilites (Togheter with Damian Frizza)
  * MPlayer 1.0rc2 buffer overflow vulnerability (Together with Damian Frizza)
  * GNU ED heap buffer overflow
  * Vinagre "vinagre_utils_show_error()" Format String Vulnerability
  * Qemu and KVM VNC server remote DoS
  * OpenBSD's IPv6 mbufs remote kernel buffer overflow
  * Multiple vulnerabilities in Google's Android SDK
  * NASA CDF stack overflow
  * NASA BigView stack overflow

• Speaker

  Security Conferences

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  August 2007 — July 2009 (2 years )

  I was selected as a speaker at the Following Security conferences:
  * BlackHat 2007, Defcon 15 conferences at Las Vegas, Ekoparty 2007, Buenos Aires, "Remote Exploit on OpenBSD".
  * Ekoparty 2008, "Smartphones (in) Security"
  * CanSecWest 2009 Vancouver, Syscan 2009 Singapore, "Persistent BIOS Infection"
  * BlackHat 2009, "Deactivate the Rootkit"

• Programmer

  Sierra S.R.L

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  August 2003 — September 2006 (3 years 2 months)

  Delphi senior programmer, OpenGL, ActiveX, etc.

• Sysadmin

  REPAC, Red Patagónica Universitaria

  (Computer Networking industry)

  January 1998 — April 1999 (1 year 4 months)

  Part-time Webmaster and Network administrator for Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco

Alfredo Adrian Ortega’s Education

• Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires

  PhD , Computer Science, Security , 2007 — 2011 (expected)

  Current research field: Spread Spectrum over optical fiber

  Activities and Societies:

  EAMTA, Escuela Argentina de Micro y Nano Electronica, 2008

• Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco

  Major , Computer Science , 2001 — 2003

  Final work: PICix, a hybrid microkernel for PIC-18 Devices:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/picix/

  Activities and Societies:

  Member of the Computer Science Departament research team.

• Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco

  Analyst , Computer Science , 1997 — 2001

  This is not a middle title of my "Major on Computer Science" (Or "Licenciado" as it's called here in Argentina), but in fact a different career sharing much of the courses but adding a deeper knowledge of algebra and calculus.

• E.N.E.T. Nº1

  Técnico electrónico , Electronics,levanting , 1990 — 1996

  Final work: 3d software spectrometer. Hardware/Soft solution with adaptive ADC.

  Activities and Societies:

  Standard bearer, Honor diploma

• E.N.E.T. N°1

  Electricist , Electricity, installations , 1990 — 1993

  As part of my electronic technician courses, i have a permit as electrician in my country.

Additional Information

Alfredo Adrian Ortega’s Interests:

My main interest are embedded programming, reverse engineering and security research. I have found (and most of the time, also exploited) several security bugs. A complete list and description is on my web page. Also I like fun stuff like hardware synthesis and error correction codes.

Alfredo Adrian Ortega’s Groups:

Security Industry

•    Black Hat
•    ekoparty security conference
•    Professional Reverse Engineers
•    DEFCON
•    Argentina Information Security Community
•    BSD
•    Vulnerability Researchers
•    H2HC
•    EAMTA

Alfredo Adrian Ortega’s Honors:

In addition to the BlackHat and Defcon papers, I have presented alone and in a research groups up to 9 reviewed full papers in Computer Science academic conferences:
http://catalogo.info.unlp.edu.ar/cgi-bin/koha/opac-searchresults.pl?criteria=keyword&searchinc=alfredo+ortega&se.x=0&se.y=0&se=Buscar

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