Dr. Andrei Costin is a PhD graduate from EURECOM where he successfully defended his thesis on "Large Scale Security Analysis of Embedded Devices' Firmware." He is also a Computer Science graduate of the Politehnica University of Bucharest where he did his thesis work in Biometrics and Image Processing. While starting out his IT-career in the Computer Games industry, he has worked in the Telecom field and also was a senior developer at a specialized firm programming various GSM/UMTS/GPS sub-systems.
He is the author of the MiFare Classic Universal toolKit (MFCUK), the first (and still only) publicly available FOSS card-only key cracking tool for the MiFare Classic RFID card family. He is also known as the "mister printer guy" for his "Hacking MFPs" and "Hacking PostScript" series of hacks & talks at various international conferences. Lately, he was spotted security-harassing airplanes with ADS-B hacks (though no planes were harmed during the experiments) and remotely hacking fireworks/demolition/pyrotechnic systems (though no fireworks show was spoiled and no buildings were demolished). He is passionate about security in a holistic fashion. At present, Andrei is mostly busy developing cutting edge security research for embedded systems as part of his FIRMWARE.RE project.All your cluster-grids are belong to us: Monitoring the (in)security of infrastructure monitoring systemsProceedings of the 1st Workshop on Security and Privacy in the Cloud (SPC) of the 2015 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Florence, Italy (acceptance rate: 27.3%)