Team
Felix 'FX' Lindner, Head of Recurity Labs.
(PGP Key)FX is the technical and research lead of Recurity Labs with 18 years computer technology experience, over ten years experience in the computer industry, almost all of them in consulting for large enterprise and telecommunication customers. He possesses a vast knowledge of computer sciences, telecommunications and software development. His background includes managing and participating in a variety of projects with a special emphasis on security planning, implementation, operation and testing using advanced methods in diverse technical environments.
FX is well known in the computer security community and has presented his and Phenoelit's security research on Black Hat Briefings, CanSecWest, PacSec, DEFCON, Chaos Communication Congress, MEITSEC and numerous other events. His research topics included Cisco IOS, HP printers, SAP and RIM BlackBerry. Felix holds a title as State-Certified Technical Assistant for Informatics and Information Technology as well as Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
Dirk Breiden, Director Operations
(PGP Key)Dirk is responsible for all business activities at Recurity Labs. Dirk also draws from more than a decade of experience as a network and security consultant in the computer industry, primarily for large enterprise and telecommunications customers. Prior to joining Recurity Labs, Dirk worked as Security Consultant for n.runs AG in Oberursel, where he performed professional services for a wide viariety of clients. Before that, Dirk led the Security Division of Pironet-NDH AG as the responsible Director.
Sergio 'shadown' Alvarez, Security Consultant
(PGP Key)Sergio Alvarez joined Recurity Labs in November 2008, bringing to the team his knowledge in vulnerability research, exploit development and both blackbox and whitebox application pentesting. Sergio has found numerous critical security vulnerabilities in widely deployed software like Apple Quicktime, Apple MacOSX, and pretty much all antivirus software out there. He has delivered presentations at well known computer security conferences like CanSecWest, Chaos Communication Congress, among others. Sergio has developed tools to automate the process of vulnerability development, runtime analysis and exploitation. Prior to Recurity Labs, Sergio worked as IT Security Consultant and as head of Security Research at n.runs AG.
Fabian 'fabs' Yamaguchi, Reverse Engineer
(PGP Key)Fabian has his roots strongly tangled with the open source and free software foundation. However, at Recurity Labs, fabs primarily works in the field of reverse engineering, mainly on Win32, and accordingly possesses intimate knowledge of some of the internals. Fabs started as Recurity Labs' resident IDA ninja and migrated afterwards into research, driving the PortBunny research project (as well as giving it it's name).
Simon Willnauer, Software Architect
(PGP Key)Simon is Recurity Labs' resident software architecture and OOP guru, drawing from many years of experience in software development for large systems. He is committer of the Apache Lucene Project and participated in the Google Summer of Code 2006. He fits well with Recurity Labs due to a notable taste for excellence.
Joern Bratzke, Vulnerability Researcher
(PGP Key)Joern comes from the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum where he studied IT Security. At Recurity Labs, he further develops his skills in the areas of binary and source code analysis as well as system security analysis.
Gregor Kopf, Security Consultant
(PGP Key)Gregor Kopf joined the Recurity Labs team early 2008. Prior to Recurity Labs, Gregor worked as a freelancer for a number of large customers. Gregor is experienced in source code audits, black box analysis and penetration testing. Furthermore, besides code audits and penetration tests, Gregor also performs software/system design work at Recurity Labs. Besides customer engagements, Gregor works on an internal research project in the area of automated code verification.
Robert Tezli, Internal Support
(PGP Key)Robert started as an intern with Recurity Labs and now works on various topics ranging from customer project support, internal research support to office automation. He studies real Informatics at Freie Universitaet Berlin.
Contracting Consultants
Recurity Labs works, additionally to our internal team, with a body of contracting consultants. This group consists of hand-picked personal with exceptional skills in specific areas. Close cooperation with contracting consultants is one of the core operating concepts in Recurity Labs. Specialists often don't fit into permanent employment, since it steals the self-development time they need and want. On the other hand, permanent positions cannot constantly provide challenging missions. Recurity Labs tries to balance the two, achieving a high acceptance by the contracting consultants and full satisfaction of the customer, who gets extra specialist knowledge with the quality of Recurity Labs work.