Latest Chapter2024-08-07

I'm excited to share a significant milestone in my decade-long journey with InQuest. We're joining forces with OPSWAT to accelerate our mission across critical infrastructure and enterprises globally:

In my new role as Chief Scientist, I will focus on machine learning, threat intelligence, and driving innovation in the R&D behind a variety of security solutions. Our team is expanding, so if you're passionate about cybersecurity and interested in joining us, please reach out. A massive thank you to all my InQuest colleagues, past and present, who were instrumental in our journey.

Mozilla 0Din.ai GenAI Bug Bounty2024-06-05

Very proud to be advising Mozilla on the launch of their GenAI bug bounty initiative:

I've had the pleasure of knowing and working with Saoud Khalifah (Fakespot.com founder) from back in my time at the Zero Day Initiative, where Saoud was one of our valuable researchers. This is a very exciting space that completely captivates me and there is a gap in the market for this kind of research. No one is monetizing research that affects the models directly. Our hope for this program is to help independent researchers with an opportunity to contribute to the development of new security frameworks and best practices tailored for large language models, attention-based systems and generative models.

Cowsay, Sticky Note Edition2023-06-20

It's been quite some time since I've produced (what my friends lovingly call) a useless Pedram project. That dry spell is over, I present to you: "Cowsay Sticky Note Edition":

I purchased this since discontinued Amazon "Day 1 Edition" Sticky Note Printer and was immediately disappointed by the fact that the only interface to printing to it was via voice. The printer sat collecting dust for two years until I found myself interested in a Raspberry Pi project. A port scan revealed that the IPP printer port was open, but I couldn't get anything to print. Through some research and brute-force, I devised a Python script to accomplish the task. The key was figuring out that the pixel values had to be exactly 576. From there, we could brute force an appropriate column count based on our chosen font and size. Video demo. The next thing I did, was open it up the the Internet via Twitter. After a few days, I had collected enough sticky notes and ASCII art to frame the work as art:

This was a fun project that reconnected me with some old friends, by way of sticky note and garnered a great collection of fun quips from all around the world. More media from the project.

Hack the planet.