Sobre Hernán Ochoa

Hernan Ochoa is a security consultant and researcher with over 14 years of professional experience. Hernan began his professional career in 1996 with the creation of Virus Sentinel, a signature-based file/memory/mbr/boot sector detection/removal antivirus application with heuristics to detect polymorphic viruses. Hernan also developed a detailed technical virus information database and companion newsletter. He joined Core Security Technologies in 1999 and worked there for 10 years in various roles, including security consultant and exploit writer who performed diverse types of security assessments, developed methodologies, shellcode, security tools and contributed new attack vectors; design and development of several low-level/kernel components of a multi-OS security system ultimately deployed at a financial institution; and "technical lead" for ongoing development and support of the multi-OS system. Hernan has published a number of security tools, including Universal Hooker (runtime instrumentation using dynamic handling routines using Python), Pass-The-Hash Toolkit for Windows, and WifiZoo. He is currently working as a security consultant / researcher at Amplia Security performing network, wireless and web applications penetration tests, standalone/client-server application black-box assessments, source code audits, reverse engineering, vulnerability analysis, and other information security-related services.