Hi! I’m Alpha.

I am completing my M.Sc. in computer engineering whilst working in security research.

I like binary exploitation, program analysis, logic, compilers, emulation and reverse engineering. Even to my surprise, I managed to get interested enough in various forms of physical exerices to make them a part of my daily life. I do a lot of other stuff in the little free time I have.

I occasionally write about things I’m learning on my blog.
If you’d like to buy me tea (sorry, I don’t drink coffe) you can drop a donation.

I’m phasing out my usage of Twitter so feel free to reach me out at @imshxdow:matrix.org or @shxdow@treehouse.systems.

Projects

These are things I’ve done at some point:

• CVE-2020-9802, Safari n-day RCE ~ 2022
• CVE-2018-1160, Netatalk n-day RCE ~ 2022
• Brief analysis of a Chrome 0-day (Security Eng. grad. course) ~ 2021
• Dynamic Binary Instrumentation for security research (B.Sc. thesis) ~ 2020
• Matasano Cryptopals challenges (set 3) ~ 2019
• Wirenet Analysis (high school thesis on malware analysis) ~ 2017
• Windows kernel reverse engineering exercises ~ 2016

Past jobs/positions:

For more details, see my CV (available on request).