Updated Apr 18, 2018
Abbas
Abbas
Naderi Afooshteh
@AbiusX
Profile
Professional hacker, information security researcher and scientist, philosopher, entrepreneur, full-time husband.
Contanct
Phone Number
927 Huntwood Ln, Charlottesville, VA 22901
Address
Email
abiusx.com
Website
Skills/Interests
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Computer Science
- Information Security
- Cryptography
- Software Engineering
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Computer Engineering
- Game Development
- Web Development
- Consultation
- DevOps
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Humanities
- Philosophy
- Epistemology
- Game Theory
- Journalism
- History
- Project Management
- Teaching
- Hacking & APT
- Cognitive Sciences
Open Source Projects
The PHP Emulator written in PHP.
Typing library for PHP5 code.
Qt Bindings for PHP
A lightweight PHP web and cli application framework.
Automated attacks against taint-inference protected systems.
Robust and secure PHP framework (since PHP 4.0).
3D L-System for generating 3D trees and bushes from simple rules
Extract sinks and fragments from PHP applications (e.g. Wordpress).
OpenCL (realtime) implementation of patch match image processing algorithm (Python and C)
OpenCL (realtime) implementation of seam carving image resizing algorithm
Secure role based access control libraries.
A deliberately insecure web application developed using PHP to teach web application security
Allows people with lots of friends to filter their lists, something that facebook does not allow.
Single-file dependency-free CAPTCHA library.
Wordpress SQL Injection Lab, for testing and automating sql injection research on Wordpress.
Binary distributions of PyQt for MacOS
A C++/SCM B+ Tree implementation
2D Game Engine on top of Qt Framework
Network and packet sniffing utility.
MicroPiper
A duplex piping utility for Windows 98
APEngine
A Turbo C++ game engine used in several student projects
Automated C++ programming environment for teaching computer programming.
Open Source Participation
The open source cloud computing infrastructure, one
of the most active open source projects I've ever seen.
The open source cloud computing infrastructure, one
of the most active open source projects I've ever seen.
open source encrypted SQLite database, very mature.
High level open source kernel of Mac OS X.
Open source fork of Darwin for x86 IBM-PC.
Open source educational security application.
Enterprise security API framework.
OWASP ASVS
Application security verification standard.
Skills
Programming Languages
C
C++
PHP
Python
Java
C#
ASM
Haskell
JS
SQL
HTML
CSS
Computer Skills
Hacking
Network Security
Web Security
Crypto
Code Audit
Malware Analysis
Kernel Hacking
Operating Systems
MacOS
Debian
Windows
Gentoo
BSD
Database Systems
MySQL
SQLite
SQLServer
Postgres
Oracle
MongoDB
Version Control
SVN
GIT
CVS
IDE
VIM
Sublime
Eclipse
XCode
VS
QTC
Languages
Farsi
English
Arabic
Japanese
Hebrew
French
More
Employment
ZDResearch
Cofounder and CIO
Feb 2013 - PRESENT
ZDResearch is a cyber security research and training firm, specializing in vulnerability detection, assessment, analysis and mitigation as well as advanced cyber security training.
Management, Sales, Marketing, Advertisement, Training Workflow, Digital Rights Management, Web Application Security, Reverse Engineering, Exploit Development, Penetration Testing
Google
Software Engineer
Apr 2017 - August 2017
Developing shared filesystem capability for Chrome OS containers, enabling native apps executed under Chrome OS containers to access user data.
Kernel Development, NFS, Virtualization, DevOps, Security, Jailing, Gentoo Build System, Git, Gerrit
Etebaran Informatics
Founder and CIO
Feb 2011 - Aug 2013
Etebaran informatics is a high-tech IT firm located in Tehran and Karaj, providing IT solutions ranging from web hosting services to enterprise software and security solutions.
OWASP
Iran Chapter Leader
Mar 2007 - Jan 2016
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an online community which creates freely-available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the field of web application security. I have been leading several teams and projects at OWASP, as well as the Iran chapter.
Smart Systems
Software Project Manager
Apr 2011 - Sep 2012
Smart Systems develops enterprise solutions for Iran's critical infrastructure. I lead the one million man-hour enterprise solution that revolutionized Iran's customs and increased its revenue by 800%.
Etebaran
CIO
Apr 2008 - Sep 2011
Etebaran is the parent company of Etebaran Informatics (although the two are separate entities now). Most of Etebaran's activities is focused on urban development.
Iran Railways
Head of Software Security
Jan 2007 - Jan 2009
Leading the software security team of Iran's national railway company, with more than 15000 employees and 11000 endpoints.
Iran Ministry of Culture
Video Game Ratings
Apr 2005 - Oct 2007
The national video game and software rating standard was developed in our team, and implemented throughout the country in this duration.
IRboost.com
Founder
Jun 2011 - Present
IRboost is an anti-filter privacy and performance enhancing technology providing Middle-Eastern countries with faster and less restrictive Internet access.
Hack Dat Kiwi
Founder
July 2015 - Present
Hack Dat Kiwi is a new CTF (Capture the Flag hacking competition) brand focusing on real-world quality competitions with reserved bragging rights.
Education
University of Virginia
Computer Science
PhD
2013 - Present
PhD Proposal (8/28/2015):
Defeating Injection Attacks on Web Applications using Practical Threat Modeling and Hybrid Taint Inference
| Advisor: | Jack Davidson |
| Chair: | John Knight |
| Committee: | David Evans, R Sekar, Barry Horowitz |
Carnegie Mellon University
Information Security
Master of Science
2013 - 2013
Sharif University of Technology
Computer Software Engineering
Master of Science
2012 - 2013
National University of Iran
Computer Software Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering
2006 - 2011
GRE: 1310
167 (Quantitative), 153 (Verbal), 3.0 (Writing) - 10/2010
TOEFL: 117 IBT
Reading 30/30, Listening 30/30, Speaking 28/30, Writing 29/30
- 14 Jan 2012
IELTS: 8.0
Listenning 8, Reading 9, Writing 7, Speaking 7.5
- 19 Nov 2011
Talks & Workshops
- Taintless - Defeating Taint-Powered Protection Techniques Black Hat USA 2014 Conference
- Trusting the PKI Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, October 2013
- Modern Media Security 3rd International Digital Media Fair of Tehran, 2009 (OWASP Certified)
- General Security in Cyberspace 3rd International Digital Media Fair of Tehran, 2009
- General Security in Cyberspace 2nd International Digital Media Fair of Tehran, 2008
- General Security in Cyberspace Iran's National TV, IRIB7, 3 Sessions
- Participating in Open Source Communities 3rd International Digital Media Fair of Tehran, 2009
- Software & Media Protection 3rd International Digital Media Fair of Tehran, 2009
- Media Lock Methods 2nd International Digital Media Fair of Tehran, 2008
- Western Games Pathology 3rd International Digital Media Fair of Tehran, 2009
- Moodle Open Source LMS 3rd International Digital Media Fair of Tehran, 2009
- Game Development Workshop Shahid Beheshti University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Derpartment, Feb 2007
- Game Development Workshop Shahid Beheshti University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Derpartment, Feb 2008
- Game Development Workshop Shahid Beheshti University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Derpartment, Jan 2009
- Analysis of University Ranking Methodologies Shahid Beheshti University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Derpartment, Dec 2007
- Disk I/O In Visual Basic 6 Shahid Beheshti University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Derpartment, Dec 2007
- HTML Workshop Shahid Beheshti University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Derpartment, March 2008
- CSS Workshop Shahid Beheshti University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Derpartment, March 2008
- GUI Programming Concept & Practice Shahid Beheshti University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Derpartment, April 2010
- Version Control Systems Theory & Practice Shahid Beheshti University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Derpartment, Jun 2010
- Secure Application Development Islamic Republic of Iran Railways, IT Branch, Nov 2007
- CLASP Security Model Bandar Abbas, Smart Customs Program, Jul 2011
- Epistemologic Information Security Tarbiat Moalem (Kharazmi) University, April 2012
Teaching Experience
- Graduate Defense Against the Dark Arts University of Virginia, Computer Science Department, Spring 2018
- Defense Against the Dark Arts University of Virginia, Computer Science Department, Fall 2018
- Graduate Defense Against the Dark Arts University of Virginia, Computer Science Department, Spring 2017
- Elementary Cryptography Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Spring 2006, 10 Sessions
- Elementary Cryptography Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Fall 2006, 10 Sessions
- Information Security & Cryptography Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Spring 2008, 10 Sessions
- Web Development Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Spring 2008, 25 Sessions
- 3D Game Development Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Fall 2007, 10 Sessions
- Cryptography & Information Security Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Spring 2010, 7 Sessions
- Web Development & Engineering Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Spring 2010, 8 Sessions
- Modern Web Development Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Fall 2011, 3 Sessions
- Operating System Labs Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Spring 2011, 16 Sessions
- Database System Labs Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Fall 2011, 16 Sessions
- APT Security & Hacking Private Contractor, Fall 2011, 10 Sessions
- CEH Private Contractor, Spring 2011, 20 Sessions
- Operating Systems Labs Sharif University of Technology, Computer Engineering Department, Spring 2013
Publications
- Abbas Naderi-Afooshteh, Anh Nguyen-Tuong, Mandana Bagheri-Marzijarani, Jason D. Hiser, Jack W. Davidson Joza: Hybrid Taint Inference for Defeating Web Application SQL Injection Attacks, The Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2015.
- Javad Zandi, Abbas Naderi-Afooshteh LRBAC: Flexible function-level hierarchical role based access control for Linux, 12th International Iranian Society of Cryptology Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ISCISC), 2015.
- Sajjad Arshad, Abbas Naderi, Comparison of Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks, 3rd World Conference on Information Technology (WCIT), 2012.
- DNS Hijacking via DNS Rebinding Won $2000 innovative article of the year award, took 6 months to develop and demonstrate.
- Secure Web Application Development Framework My BS thesis describing web techonologies from a security perspective and providing a framework to approach and use them in a means of minimizing security risks.
Whitepapers
- Fast & Flexible NIST Level 2 Role Based Access Control jrbac, the de-facto RBAC standard in theory.
- OWASP ASVS Persian Native Persian version of application security verification standard.
- Qt Quick Tutorial
- Iran Rankings in the World
- Untouched Usages of XOR
- Birthday Paradox in Breadth
- Feminism in Western Games
- Turbo C++ 2D Game Development
- Index of Conincidences
- An Introduction to Cryptography (Book)
- University Rankings Criteria (2009)
- Application Security Checklist
- Web Security Checklist
- Linux Practical Tutorial I mostly used this to kick start my students on Linux world, so that they could do their assignments and projects.
- Operating System Labs Manuscript Co-oped with another Operating Systems lab teacher, this manual is a kick-start for operating systems concepts and practice. From boot to most parts of kernel and UI, console capabilities, POSIX and etc. (I also covered most of Prof. Tanenbaums Operating Systems book on the course.)
Honors & Awards
- Ranked 2nd at DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge autonomous hacking competition at DefCon 2016 ($1,000,000 cash prize)
- Ranked 1st at National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition 2018 (taking part as a first-timer team, beating last 5 years' champions altogether)
- Ranked 1stMid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition 2018
- OWASP WASPY Best Inventor 2013 Award ($1000 Gift Card).
- Ranked 1st at Iran's Fifth National Hacking Online Contest (cert.sharif.edu, 2013)
- Ranked 3rd at Iran's Forth National Hacking Contest (cert.sharif.edu, 2013)
- Ranked 1st at Iran's Third National Hacking Online Contest (cert.sharif.edu, 2012-2013)
- Ranked 3rd at Iran's First National Hacking Online Contest (cert.sharif.edu, 2010)
- Ranked Honorary 1st & Official 5th at Iran's Second National Hacking Contest (cert.sharif.edu, 2010) For participating solo on a contest of teams of three, And staying on top of the scoreboard for 90% of contest time.
- Ranked 11th at International Hackademic Contest (2010) Participating solo, In a large-scale, four weeks contest of security teams participation
- Ranked 1st at Stripe CTF hacking contest (2012) among top 100 people who solved all challenges, contest had 6000 hacker participants
- Ranked 17th in the ACM Collegiate Programming Contest, West Asia Region (2007)
- Ranked 31th in the ACM Collegiate Programming Contest, West Asia Region (2008)
- Ranked 36th in Decryption, the international cryptography contest (Feb 2012)
- Ranked 2nd in the National Iran Open Robocup Festival, Innovations Section (2011)
- Honorary Undergraduate Scholarship from Sharif University of Technology (2006)
- Graduate Scholarship from Sharif University of Technology (2012)
- Bronze Medal of Astronomy Student Olympiads (2005)
Notable Work
Mentorship
- Google Summer of Code 2014
- Google Summer of Code 2014
- Google Summer of Code 2014
- Google Summer of Code 2013
Journalism
- COMPASS: Finding Your Message Workshop on Scientifically Communicating Scientific Research
- Certificate of Journalism from Ministry of Science & Higher Education at First Journalism Workshop
- Editor-In-Chief of Kankash Scientific Journal, Allameh Helli High School
- Editor-In-Chief of Bazitab Game Pathology Magazine, Ministry of Culture
- Editor-In-Chief of Millenia Science Electronics & Computer Science Journal, Shahid Beheshti University
- Editor-In-Chief of Ghasedak Newspaper, A Shahid Beheshti Public Newspaper
- Editor-In-Chief of Soozan Electronic Magazine, A Shahid Beheshti Popular e-Magazine
- Editor-In-Chief of Noghte Sare Khat Special Edition, And member of editors board
Student Activity
- University of Virginia Computer Science Graduate Student Group Co-Lead
- Director of Allameh Helli High School Yearly Seminar (6 months of 20 people teamwork)
- Member of Science Society Board of Directors at Shahid Beheshti University,
- Director of Electronics & Computer Engineering Science Society Board (1 year)
- Scientific, Cultural, Political Head of Student Council at Shahid Beheshti University
- Director of Shahid Beheshti University Robocup Team SBCESaviour (Summer 2007)
- Director of Workshops & Posters section at Iran's 12th International Computer Society Conference
- Director of Official Welcome Party for Freshmen at Shahid Beheshti University
- Director of Tours & Trips around the country for Freshmen at Shahid Beheshti University
Scientific Activity
- ISMS Auditor / Consultant Certificate
- Active Member of ISSECO® International Secure Software Engineering Council
- Executive Chief of Iran's First Web Application Security Conference (2010)
- Executive Chief of Posters & Workshops at 12th Iran's Computer Society Conference (2006)
- Participant of 2nd, 3rd & 4th Iran's Society of Cryptology Conference
- Active Member of Iran's Society of Cryptology
- Member of ACM ([email protected]) since 2006
- Member of IEEE since 2008
- Participant of Adhoc & Sensor Network Security Workshop at KNTU University
- Participant of e-Voting Workshop, Sharif University of Technology
- Head of Shahid Beheshti University Robocup team, SBCE Saviour (Summer 2007)
Teaching Assistants
- Defense Against The Dark Arts University of Virginia, Computer Science, Spring 2014, Prof. Jack Davidson
- Computational Complexity University of Virginia, Computer Science, Spring 2014, Prof. Mohammad Mahmoudy
- Software Development Methods University of Virginia, Computer Science, Fall 2013, Prof. Luther Tychonievic
- Computer Architecture University of Virginia, Computer Science, Fall 2013, Prof. Jack Stankovic
- Computer Basics & Programming Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Fall 2007, Prof. Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam
- Advanced Programming Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Spring 2008, MS. Ali Vahed
- Computer Basics & Programming Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Fall 2008, Prof. Alireza Ahmadi Far
- Machine Language & Assembly Programming Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Fall 2008, Prof. Malihe Bahadori
- Advanced Programming Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Spring 2009, MS. Ali Vahed
- Computer Basics & Programming Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Spring 2009, Prof. Alireza Ahmadi Far
- Computer Basics & Programming Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Fall 2009, Prof. Alireza Ahmadi Far
- Operating Systems Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Fall 2009, Prof. Malihe Bahadori
- Machine Language & Assembly Programming Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Fall 2009, Prof. Malihe Bahadori
- Computer Architecture Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Fall 2009, Prof. Farshad Safaei
- Computer Basics & Programming Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Spring 2010, Prof. Alireza Ahmadi Far
- Advanced Programming Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Spring 2011, Prof. Azadeh Mansouri
- Internet Engineering Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Spring 2011, Prof. Hasan Haghighi
- Machine Language & Assembly Programming Shahid Beheshti University, Electronics & Computer Engineering Department, Fall 2011, Prof. Ahmad Mahmoudi
- Computer Networks Shahid Beheshti University, Computer Science Department, Fall 2011, Prof. Ehsan Malekian