Samuel H. Zurowski
Hello all, this website serves as a blog for me to post about my views, opinions, and lessons learned over the years. I really believe that writing about a topic can really help someone truly understand what is going on (and is why I started this). My interests are almost anything related to cybersecurity so hopefully you'll see some helpful materials here!
Experience
University of New Haven
Graduate Cybersecurity Researcher • August 2021 - Present
Worked as a Cybersecurity Graduate Researcher where I worked on various research topics related to critical problems in cybersecurity. Some of the work includes:
- Currently working on research on a subset of Android applications where discovered were several security vulnerabilities that resulted in implications such deanonymization and other privacy issues.
- Employed on a grant funded by the NSA to reverse engineer the V8 JavaScript engine to recover objects in memory forensics to aide in investigations.
- Primary responsibilities include: reverse engineering V8 data structures, testing recovery approach, data analysis (pandas, jupyter-notebook, etc), and memory layout documentation.
The MITRE Corporation
Cybersecurity Engineer • May 2019 - August 2020
Worked as a Cybersecurity Intern in the Summer of 2019 and Remotely in Summer of 2020. Some of the projects & achievements are I worked are on:
- Designed systems for automated exploits, covert mesh networking communications, software loaders, and ICS tampering (specifically MODBUS). Made specifically for custom C2 system.
- Created a reverse engineering tool to allow researchers to rapidly identify open source libraries used in various Android applications which saved researchers thousands of hours.
- Developed tools for complying with the Cyber-investigation Analysis Standard Expression ontology. Learn more: https://caseontology.org/
- Received Spark Award for work ethic and technical challenges solved.
Education
University of New Haven
Master of Science, Cybersecurity & Networks • 2021 - 2022
- Graduate December of 2022
- GPA 4.0
University of New Haven
Bachelor of Sciences, Computer Science • 2017 - 2021
- Concentration in Cybersecurity and Minor in Mathematics
- GPA 3.74
- Magna Cum Laude
Projects
Android Application Vulnerability Analysis
Researcher • 2021 - Present
Researching Android phone applications where multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered.
Exploratory Study of Offensive Security Tools
Researcher • 2020 - 2021
Wrote a research paper that analyzes various used offensive security tools and their current state.
Penetration Testing using Reinforcement Learning
Researcher • 2020 - 2021
Developed a prototype capable of being trained and used to autonomously conduct penetration tests.
Additional Links
Social Links
- Github: https://github.com/samuelzurowski/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/_Zen1x/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelzurowski/
- Website: https://samuelzurowski.com