TYPHOONCON 2020 SPEAKERS
18th - 19th of June

Prof. Dr. Seungjoo (Gabriel) Kim

Keynote speaker 2020

Prof. Dr. Seungjoo (Gabriel) Kim

Keynote speaker 2020

Seungjoo Kim has been a professor of the Department of Cyber Defense in School of Cybersecurity at Korea University since 2011. For the past 7 years he was an associate professor of Sungkyunkwan University and has 5 years of background as team leader of Cryptographic Technology Team and also IT Security Evaluation Team of KISA (Korea Internet & Security Agency).

In addition to being a professor, Seungjoo Kim is director of CHAOS (Center for High-Assurance Operating Systems), head of SANE (Security Analysis aNd Evaluation) Lab, an adviser of hacking club 'CyKor (DEFCON CTF 2015 & 2018 winner)' of Department of Cyber Defense in Korea University and founder/advisory director of an international security & hacking conference 'SECUINSIDE'.

His current professional focus is being a presidential committee member on the 4th industrial revolution in Korea and an advisory committee member of several public and private organizations such as NIS (National Intelligence Service), Ministry of National Defense, Ministry of Justice, Supreme Prosecutors' Office, Korea National Police Agency, Nuclear Safety and Security Commission, etc.

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Nicolas Waisman

TyphoonCon 2020 Speaker

Nicolas Waisman

TyphoonCon 2020 Speaker

Nicolas Waisman has experience in all areas of offensive-related software security, from vulnerability analysis to exploit and trojan development. Nico is an internationally recognized heap expert and has taught governments and commercial sector students from all over the world in both private and public classroom settings, presenting some of his research at conferences such as Black Hat, Pacsec, Syscan, Ekoparty and many others. Nico is currently the head of the GitHub Security Lab whose mission is to help secure the world open source code.

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Amy Burnett

TyphoonCon 2020 Speaker

Amy Burnett

TyphoonCon 2020 Speaker

Amy Burnett is a senior security researcher and co-founder of RET2 Systems, where she specializes in browser security and mitigation bypass. Amy has spoken about and had lead training on advanced browser exploitation at multiple private events and conferences worldwide. She and her team developed and publicly demonstrated a remote code exploit against Safari for Pwn2Own 2018, which also leveraged a macOS bug to gain root level code execution.

Amy’s research usually consists of looking for bugs in the JavaScript engines of Chrome and Safari with a focus on analyzing their JIT compilers. Beyond finding bugs Amy likes to write exploits for disclosed bugs, with a focus of coming up with mitigation/hardening bypass techniques and designing stage two payloads.

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Seunghun Han

TyphoonCon 2020 Speaker

Seunghun Han

TyphoonCon 2020 Speaker

Seunghun Han is a security researcher at the Affiliated Institute of ETRI. Seunghun focuses on the root of trust, firmware, hypervisor, and kernel security, so he has made his own hypervisor and contributed various patches to the Linux kernel and TPM-based security software.

Seunghun was a speaker and an author at USENIX Security, Black Hat Asia/Europe, HITBSecConf, BlueHat Shanghai, TyphoonCon, beVX, Becks Japan, and KimchiCon. He also authored two books about building 64bit OS from scratch, "64-bit multi-core OS principles and structure, volume 1 (ISBN-13: 978-8979148367) and volume 2 (ISBN-13: 978-8979148374)".

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Ben Sparks

TyphoonCon 2020 Speaker

Ben Sparks

TyphoonCon 2020 Speaker

Ben Sparkes (@iBSparkes) is an independent security researcher studying iOS/macOS and XNU

He has been active in the jailbreaking scene, writing jailbreaks such as Meridian and Totally Not Spyware, and is now primarily focused on iOS kernel vulnerability anaylsis and exploitation.