Giovanni Vigna

I am a faculty member at the Computer Science Department of the University of California in Santa Barbara.

My research focuses on web security, vulnerability analysis, malware countermeasures, and intrusion detection.

I am co-director of the Security Lab. I am also part of the International Security Lab and of the Shellphish and Epic Fail hacker groups.

I am one of the founders of WebWise Security, Inc., a Santa Barbara-based security consulting firm that provides security solutions, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and source code analysis services to clients worldwide.

Every year I organize the International Capture The Flag (iCTF), the world's largest hacking competition.

Contact Information

Address
Giovanni Vigna
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110, USA
Phone
+1 (805) 893-7565
Fax
+1 (805) 893-8553
E-Mail
vigna@cs.ucsb.edu
Web
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~vigna
Office
Engineering I (Harold Frank Hall), Room 2159 (office) or Room 2114 (lab)
Bio
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Public key
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News

  • May 4, 2009: Our report on hijacking and analyzing the Torpig botnet was featured on Slashdot an then covered by the international press.
  • 27 April 2009: The research of a team from the SecLab (Marco Cova, Davide Balzarotti, and me) was featured in the May 2009 edition of Scientific American. The research mentioned is described in the paper "ClearShot: Eavesdropping on Keyboard Input from Video", which was published in the Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Oakland, in 2008.
  • 20 April 2009: Check out Wepawet, a malicious JavaScript/Flash analyzer. You can submit a URL to the system and find out if the associated web site is performing attacks against your browser.

Students

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