About this website
invisiblethings.org is a non-profit website dedicated for sharing the thoughts of its author in the area of computer systems and network security. In addition to various papers and conference presentations, one can also find here some proof-of-concept code demonstrating both new offensive techniques as well as experimental defensive approaches. Due to its high level of technical content, the website is mainly destined for other security researchers and computer security enthusiasts, rather then end-users. The author believes that sharing information about new attacks and defensive techniques may help others with designing more secure systems in the future.
About the author
Joanna Rutkowska has been involved in computer security research for several years. She has been fascinated by the internals of operating systems since she was in primary school and started learning x86 assembler on MS-DOS. Soon after she switched to Linux world, got involved with some system and kernel programming, focusing on exploit development for both Linux and Windows x86 systems.
A couple of years ago she has gotten very interested in stealth technology as used by malware and attackers to hide their malicious actions after a successful break-in. This includes various types of rootkits, network backdoors and covert channels. She currently focuses on research and consulting in the areas of Operating Systems and virtualization security.
She has started Invisible Things Lab, a computer security consulting and research company in 2007.
For information about potential speaking engagements, please see this page.