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Giovanni Vigna

Professor of Computer Science, UCSB. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Dr. Vigna is a cybersecurity scholar known for malware analysis, vulnerability detection, founding the Shellphish hacking group, and organizing the International Capture The Flag competition. He co-founded the antimalware company Lastline, serving as CTO until its acquisition by VMware, and has authored books on intrusion correlation and mobile agent security.

What they said4 What others said1 Shows1

Everything Giovanni Vigna said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated

Giovanni Vigna's study found no antivirus consistently detects day-one malware

“Actually, there was, in a year that we did the study, there was never one single antivirus that was able always to get the sample the first day.”

Giovanni Vigna Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 13:34 Giovanni Vigna

a16z Assertion Supported

Giovanni Vigna's research team hijacked a Russian botnet to write a paper

“We even captured once an entire botnet. We stole it from the Russian cybercrime gang, and we ran it for a while to understand what information we would collect, and then we wrote a paper on it, because that's what we do.”

Giovanni Vigna Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 3:47 Giovanni Vigna

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Lastline processes 750,000 malware samples per day, requiring accelerated analysis

“You cannot execute a thousand, a hundred, or in our case, 750,000 samples a day, ah, for an hour, because the computing power would be enormous and incredibly expensive, so you have to speed it up.”

Giovanni Vigna Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 10:08 Giovanni Vigna

a16z Assertion Supported

Giovanni Vigna says perfect malware detection is mathematically impossible

“So it's impossible really to understand what a program does. So we will always only have heuristics and never the final algorithm that is able to tell this is a good program and this is a bad program.”

Giovanni Vigna Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 16:45 Giovanni Vigna

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a16zLEDGER	Professor of Computer Science, UCSB	1	4	100% 2/2	full record on the a16z Podcast →