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Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Dr. Brendan Saltaformaggio is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, with a courtesy appointment in the School of Computer Science. His research interests lie in computer systems security, cyber forensics, and the vetting of untrusted software.

Dr. Saltaformaggio serves as the Director of the Cyber Forensics Innovation (CyFI) Laboratory. The CyFI Lab's mission is to further the investigation of advanced cyber crimes and the analysis and prevention of next-generation malware attacks, particularly in mobile and IoT Internet of Things environments. This research has led to numerous publications at top cyber security venues, including a Best Paper Award from the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'15) in 2015 and a Best Student Paper Award from the 2014 USENIX Security Symposium.

Originally from New Orleans, Dr. Saltaformaggio earned his B.S. with Honors in Computer Science from the University of New Orleans in 2012. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Purdue University in 2014 and 2016, respectively, during which Dr. Saltaformaggio was honored with the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award as well as two fellowships: the 2016 Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship and the inaugural Emil Stefanov Memorial Fellowship in Computer Science.
Articles by Brendan Saltaformaggio
Veterans Find New Roles in Enterprise Cybersecurity
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading,  11/12/2018
Understanding Evil Twin AP Attacks and How to Prevent Them
Ryan Orsi, Director of Product Management for Wi-Fi at WatchGuard Technologies,  11/14/2018
7 Free (or Cheap) Ways to Increase Your Cybersecurity Knowledge
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark Reading,  11/15/2018
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CVE-2018-19333
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-17
pkg/sentry/kernel/shm/shm.go in Google gVisor before 2018-11-01 allows attackers to overwrite memory locations in processes running as root (but not escape the sandbox) via vectors involving IPC_RMID shmctl calls, because reference counting is mishandled.
CVE-2018-19340
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-17
Guriddo Form PHP 5.3 has XSS via the demos/jqform/defaultnodb/default.php OrderID, ShipName, ShipAddress, ShipCity, ShipPostalCode, ShipCountry, Freight, or details parameter.
CVE-2018-19327
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-17
An issue was discovered in JTBC(PHP) 3.0.1.7. aboutus/manage.php?type=action&action=add allows CSRF.
CVE-2018-19328
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-17
LAOBANCMS 2.0 allows install/mysql_hy.php?riqi=../ Directory Traversal.
CVE-2018-19329
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-17
GreenCMS v2.3.0603 allows remote authenticated administrators to delete arbitrary files by modifying a base64-encoded pathname in an m=admin&c=media&a=delfilehandle&id= call, related to the m=admin&c=media&a=restorefile delete button.