TippingPoint Digital Vaccine Laboratories

Rob King

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Security Researcher


Rob is a senior researcher with TippingPoint's DVLabs organization, where he specializes in Unix and network security, encryption, encoding, and various esoterica.

Rob has over ten years' experience in the security field and has presented at numerous conferences and authored several papers, on topics ranging from computational linguistics to statistical analysis to good Snort deployment strategies. He has been invited in a private capacity to lecture and instruct at a variety of governmental and private organizations.

Outside of work, he holds an unhealthy fascination for ancient and obscure computer science history, complex board games, and other suitably geeky pursuits. He currently lives in Austin with his wife Betsy and several quadrupeds of various species.
Published Advisories:
  • TPTI-09-04: Apple Terminal xterm Resize Escape Sequence Memory Corruption Vulnerability
  • TPTI-09-03: Apple iTunes Multiple Protocol Handler Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
    • Appearances:
  • Upcoming: SCREAM: Static Analysis of Regular Expressions for Analysis and Modifications
    2010-03-25 Erlang Factory
  • SCREAM: Static Analysis of Regular Expressions for Analysis and Modifications
    2010-02-18 IEEE Central Texas Section Conference
  • Effective Techniques in Vulnerability Analysis and Intrusion Prevention
    2009-09-18 SANS Network Security 2009
  • Building a Better Mousetrap: Effective Techniques in Vulnerability Analysis and Intrusion Prevention
    2009-07-25 Black Hat USA 2009 Training
  • Static Analysis and Transformation of Regular Languages for Encoding
    2009-01-28 PENTCIRT Pentagon Security Forums
  • The Art of Developing Effective Intrusion Detection/Prevention Signatures
    2008-08-02 Black Hat USA 2008 Training
  • PISA: Protocol Identification via Statistical Analysis
    2007-08-01 BlackHat US
  • Encrypted Protocol Identification via Statistical Analysis
    2007-03-23 ShmooCon
    • Blog Entries
  • What's Worse Than Finding a Bug in Your Apple?
    created 2009-06-05 (2 comments, 3261 views)
  • Three Letter Acronyms and the Imminent Death of the Net
    created 2008-08-29 (0 comments, 2730 views)
  • Where are the Apples of Yesteryear?
    created 2008-08-21 (3 comments, 3289 views)
  • Building a Better Mousetrap: This Year at Black Hat
    created 2008-07-22 (0 comments, 2832 views)
  • Everything old is new again (again)!
    created 2008-07-21 (0 comments, 7181 views)
  • A Bit of History
    created 2008-03-18 (1 comments, 7295 views)
  • New Leopard Security Features - Part III: Sandboxing
    created 2007-12-14 (1 comments, 5491 views)
  • New Leopard Security Features - Part II: Code Signing
    created 2007-11-21 (1 comments, 4261 views)
  • New Leopard Security Features - Part I: ASLR
    created 2007-11-07 (0 comments, 4597 views)
  • It's not about Spider-Man, sorry...
    created 2007-08-28 (1 comments, 5139 views)
  • The elephant in the room is under a blanket..
    created 2007-07-18 (1 comments, 3634 views)
  • Everything Old is New Again!
    created 2007-06-19 (0 comments, 6380 views)
  • pun topic='safari on windows' level='clever'
    created 2007-06-13 (0 comments, 13474 views)