Joshua Drake

Joshua J. Drake is the VP of Platform Research and Exploitation at Zimperium Enterprise Mobile Security and lead author of the Android Hacker's Handbook. Joshua focuses on original research such as reverse engineering and the analysis, discovery, and exploitation of security vulnerabilities. He has over 10 years of experience researching and exploiting a wide range of application and operating system software with a focus on Android since early 2012. In prior roles, he served at Accuvant Labs, Rapid7's Metasploit, and VeriSign's iDefense Labs. Joshua previously spoke at Black Hat, DEF CON , RSA, CanSecWest, REcon, Ruxcon/Breakpoint, Toorcon, and DerbyCon. Other notable accomplishments include; helping spur mobile ecosystem change in 2015, exploiting Oracle's JVM at Pwn2Own 2013, exploiting the Android browser via NFC with Georg Wicherski at Black Hat USA 2012, and winning DEF CON 18 CTF with ACME Pharm in 2010.

Twitter: @jduck

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Vulnerabilities 101: How to Launch or Improve Your Vulnerability Research Game