User:Pasquale Stirparo

Pasquale Stirparo is a Ph.D. student at the KTH - Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, currently working as Digital Forensics and Mobile Security Researcher at the Joint Research Centre of European Commission. His main interests are penetration testing, vulnerability analysis, reverse engineering, malware research and analysis, all of them mainly related to the mobile wolrd.
He is also involved in, other than very interested to, the Digital Forensics field from technical, research and "standardization" point of view.
Currently research interests revolve around the security and privacy issues related to mobile devices communication protocols, mobile devices applications and mobile operative systems such as:
- Security and privacy issues of wireless communication protocols (e.g. wi-fi, bluetooth, nfc, etc) in mobile environments
- Mobile payment systems
- Mobile malware
Prior to join JRC, Pasquale was working as Security Consultant and Digital Forensics Analyst for an Italian based private company, @Mediaserivce.net. He has also been invited as speaker to several Italians conferences and seminars on Digital Forensics and lecturer on the same subject for Politecnico di Milano and United Nations (UNICRI).
Pasquale holds a MSc in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Torino and he's certified GCFA, OPST, OWSE, ECCE.