Cyber Security

Nikita Tarakanov

Independent Security Researcher

Faculty Profile

Nikita Tarakanov is an independent information security researcher. He has worked as an information security researcher in Positive Technologies, Vupen Security, CISS, Intel corporation.

He likes writing exploits, especially for Windows NT Kernel. He won the PHDays Hack2Own contest in 2011 and 2012. He has published several papers about kernel mode drivers and their exploitation. He is currently engaged in reverse engineering research and vulnerability search automation.

Research Interests:

Vulnerability discovery Automation of vulnerability discovery, Vulnerability exploitation

Experience

Jul 2015 – Present
Independent Security Researcher
Mar 2014 – Jul 2015
Security Researcher
Intel
Jan 2012 – Nov 2013
Independent Security Researcher
May 2010 – Dec 2011
Researcher/Reverse Engineering
CISS (Center of Innovative Security Solutions)
Jul 2009 – Nov 2009
Security Researcher
Vupen
Jun 2008 – Jun 2009
Security Engineer
Positive Technologies
Aug 2006 – May 2008
Senior Developer
Riskdata
Jul 2005 – Jul 2006
Senior Developer
Disco

Education

2003 – 2007
BS in Computer Science and Systems
Moscow Mathematic College

Honors & Awards

Positive Hack Days (2011) Won the competition Hack2Own, coworker and I demonstrated 0day vulnerability (CVE-2011-0222) in the latest version of Safari for Windows and took the first prize 2011
Positive Hack Days (2012) Won the competition Hack2Own, I demonstrated 0day kernel vulnerability (CVE-2013-1334) in the fully patched Windows XP SP3 2012

Courses by Nikita

Cyber Security

Fundamentals of Operating Systems

15 Oct - 02 Nov 2018

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