Nation.State.Actor
Welcome to Nation.State.Actor, an infrequently updated security blog run by Dr Andrew Fasano.
Latest Posts
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A Reverse Engineer's Guide to Mechanistic Interpretability
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CTF Writeup: Reverse Engineering an AI Backdoor
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,... -
Overview
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.