Hernan Ochoa has been an Independent Security Consultant / Researcher with 14 years of experience.

Began professionally in 1996 with the creation of the Virus Sentinel antivirus software (file/memory/mbr/boot sector detection/removal, signature based with heuristics to detect polyformic viruses), virus database with detailed technical description and SWAN newsletter.

Joined Core Security Technologies in 1999 and worked there for 10 years; began as a security consultant and exploit writer, then moved to the design and development of several low-level/kernel components of a multi OS security system (win3.1/win95/winnt/novell/DOS) to be installed in a financial institution (later simplified and released publicly as CORE FORCE) also acting as the "technical lead" for anything related to the aforementioned OSes. Finally moved back to the consulting department as the Expert Security Consultant performing security assessments, developing methodologies, security tools and contributing to CORE IMPACT with new attack vectors,developing modules and shellcode.

Tools published include Universal Hooker (runtime instrumentation using dynamic handling routines using python) Pass-The-Hash Toolkit for Windows and WifiZoo among others.

Currently he works as an independent security consultant / researcher.