I am a faculty member of the Computer Science Department at the University of California in Santa Barbara.
My research focuses on web security, vulnerability analysis, malware countermeasures, and intrusion detection.
I am co-director of the Security Lab. I am also part of the International Security Lab and of the Shellphish and Epic Fail hacker groups.
I am one of the founders of WebWise Security, Inc., a Santa Barbara-based security consulting firm that provides security solutions, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and source code analysis services to clients world-wide.
Every year, I organize the International Capture The Flag (iCTF), the world's largest hacking competition.
Contact Information
- Address
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Giovanni Vigna
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110, USA - Skype
- ID: Giovanni.Vigna
- vigna@cs.ucsb.edu
- Web
- http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~vigna
- Office
- Engineering I (Harold Frank Hall), Room 2159 (office) or Room 2114 (lab)
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News
- July 29, 2011: The SecLab was featured on CNN as the "White Knight Cyber Hackers".
- December 7, 2010: Our paper "Detecting Spammers in Social Networks," won the Best Student Paper Award at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference.
- August 8, 2010: Our paper "An Experience in Testing the Security of Real-World Electronic Voting Systems" was selected as the Spotlight Paper for the July/August 2010 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
- April 26, 2010: Prof. Kemmerer, Prof. Kruegel and I received the Business Star Innovator Award from the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce, for our work on botnet analysis. From the announcement: "This award is traditionally presented to an individual who has made a significant innovative contribution to positively impacting our world."
- Oct 2, 2009: Our research on drive-by-download attacks was discussed on MIT's Technology Review.
- Aug 2, 2009: Our team Shellphish participated to the DefCon CTF.