Apostolos Giannakidis, Author at TechSpective

Apostolos Giannakidis

Apostolos drives the research and the design of the security features of Waratek’s RASP container. Before starting his journey in Waratek in 2014, Apostolos worked in Oracle for 2 years focusing on Destructive Testing on the whole technology stack of Oracle and on Security Testing of the Solaris operating system. Apostolos has more than 10 years of experience in the software industry and holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham. Apostolos is acknowledged by Oracle for submitting two Java Deserialization vulnerabilities that were fixed in the Oracle January 2018 CPU and is featured on Google’s Vulnerability Reward Program Hall of Fame.

Will Dropping Serialization from Java Remove the Vulnerabilities?

App Development, Security, Security Awareness, Vulnerability Management / By Apostolos Giannakidis

During “Ask The Architect” at the Devoxx UK 2018 conference, Oracle’s chief architect, Mark Reinhold, called Java’s serialization mechanism a “horrible mistake” and a virtually endless source of security vulnerabilities. More importantly, Reinhold announced Oracle’s decision to improve Java’s security […]

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