Nation.State.Actor

Welcome to Nation.State.Actor, an infrequently updated security blog run by Dr Andrew Fasano.

Latest Posts

  • A Reverse Engineer's Guide to Mechanistic Interpretability

  • 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.