In the past decade, Tal Skverer turned his hacking hobby into a career. His experience covers reverse engineering, malware analysis, embedded security, web hacking, cryptography, and computational complexity. He also teaches a biannual workshop on assembly, reverse engineering x86/x64, and blackbox research.
Tal holds an M.Sc. in Theoretical Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute.
Currently, Tal is the Head of Research at Astrix Security, where, among other things, he discovers vulnerabilities in how cloud providers implement connectivity between (and by) non-human identities.
In his past job, Tal hacked vehicle infotainment systems, and was also a part of the “Unknown6” research group that broke PokemonGo’s anti-cheating system in 2016.
Tal had presented his research in the past at several conferences including DEF CON 31, RSAC, BSides, OWASP (LASCON and SnowFROC) and most recently in DEF CON 33.
