Ep. 93 - From Pwn2Own to Pwning AI // Aaron Portnoy
About this episode
Aaron Portnoy discusses his journey in cybersecurity and the challenges of AI security.
In this episode, James and Marc sit down with Aaron Portnoy, Head of Research at MindGuard and founder of Pwn2Own.He shares stories from his early days: learning exploitation from anonymous IRC hackers, getting visits from both the IRS and FBI, a chance meeting with HD Moore at a party, and how his ability to reverse engineer fast led him to become the youngest manager at Zero Day Initiative where he helped create the Pwn2Own competition. But Aaron isn't living in the past. He reveals how he found a persistent RCE in Google's brand-new Anitgravity IDE within its first 24 hours, explains why AI security is fundamentally broken, and demonstrates how AI agents become insider threats that enterprises can't control or understand. From six-hour firewall exploits to decimal IP bypasses, Aaron shows why the attack surface has become "literally endless."
People in this episode
Hosts: James, Marc
Guest: Aaron Portnoy
Topics covered
- AI security
- cybersecurity
- exploitation
- reverse engineering
- Pwn2Own competition
- insider threats
Keywords
- RCE
- firewall exploits
- decimal IP bypasses
- attack surface
- exploitation techniques
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: MindGuard, Pwn2Own, Zero Day Initiative, Google, IRS, FBI
Products: Anitgravity IDE
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