Needles in a haystack: Picking unwanted UEFI components out of millions of samples
ESET experts describe how they trained a machine-learning model to recognize a handful of unwanted UEFI components within a flood of millions of harmless samples
Education : Degree in Computer Science
Highlights of your career : Being recruited at ESET as a Malware Researcher
Position and history at ESET : Malware Researcher since January 2017
What malware do you hate the most : Those I can't get a sample of
Favorite activities : Guitar, snowboarding, hiking
What is your golden rule for cyberspace : Don't forget you share it with a lot of scammers
When did you get your first computer and what kind was it? I had a 486/33 MHz in the early 90s
ESET experts describe how they trained a machine-learning model to recognize a handful of unwanted UEFI components within a flood of millions of harmless samples
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