Joshua Morin

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Joshua Morin (born 1984) is a Security Engineer for Codenomicon., a provider of preemptive security and robustness test solutions. He is responsible for security analysis and research in products and service which reveal public, new and undisclosed threats in the realm of Internet, VoIP, and IPTV. His work spans field-oriented Proof of Concept (PoC), robustness testing implementation, security architecture design and information security research.

Prior to joining Codenomicon, Joshua worked for Spirent Communications on the (Imperfect Networks) ThreatEx product as a Threat Developer with a primary focus on Fuzzing attacks and vulnerability research. He has also discovered new (zero-day) vulnerabilities through a variety of techniques such as auditing, reverse engineering, and fuzzing.

Joshua is also a beta-tester for Hakin9 Magazine.

[edit] Apple iPhone Denial of Service Vulnerability

On Feb 5th 2008, Joshua released an advisory that the Apple iPhone was susceptible to Denial of Service (DoS) in firmware 1.1.3 by using JavaScript code in Safari that constructs a long string and an array containing long string elements.