Robert Stucke

Greater Denver Area United States

Staff Information Security Engineer at LinkedIn

Technology / Software / Internet

My insatiable curiousity drives me to always explore "what if" scenarios and understand hidden influences. I tend to focus on fringe areas and avoid wasting time with heavily trafficked areas surrounded by hype. My latest projects of interest have involved DNS abuse from an offensive and defensive position. A few of the specific streams of research are; - DNS Sinkholing and C&C impersonation for command channel reverse engineering - DNS Bit Squatting and the potential for random memory errors to silently move your trust to an attacker - Common DNS Resolver Misconfigurations, many organizations put little thought into their DNS suffix search paths, resolver tunables, and various clien...