System Overlord

A blog about security engineering, research, and general hacking.

About David

David is a security engineer at Google, working on information security assessments and Red Team exercises. He holds the OSCP and OSCE certifications and does penetration testing, application assessment, and offensive security exercises. David also does information security research (especially into IoT Security) and plays the occasional CTF.

The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my employers – present, past, or future.


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