Gala Cado

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A Bit About Me

I'm an MSc student in Security and Network Engineering at the University of Amsterdam, and I'm drawn to offensive and software security: understanding how systems fail in order to help fix them. My experience includes cyber intelligence analysis at CFLW Cyber Strategies, a BSc thesis on operational phishing detection, and applied LLM research for cybersecurity applications. Alongside this, hands-on coursework projects have let me work directly with various sides of security, from reverse engineering and forensic investigation to practical testing of network and device security.

Recent work

CVE-2021-3156 reproduction

Reproduced and analysed a heap-based buffer overflow in sudo, then validated the official patch as mitigation.

offensive technologies

Bluetooth LE MITM proxy

Built a proxy that intercepts and modifies live Bluetooth Low Energy device traffic in real time.

python, bluez, d-bus

Memory & disk forensics

Investigated a system image with Volatility and Scalpel, reconstructing a timeline of user activity.

cybercrime & forensics