Wesley McGrew

Dr. Wesley McGrew is a house music DJ that also directs research, development, and offensive cyber operations as Senior Cybersecurity Fellow for MartinFederal. He has presented on topics of penetration testing and malware analysis at DEF CON and Black Hat USA and teaches self-designed courses on software reverse engineering and assembly language programming. Wesley has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Mississippi State University for his research in vulnerability analysis of SCADA HMI systems.

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Presentations:

• 2025-08-09 17:00 - DEF CON 33 (2025) - Amber64: Mining Hacker History from Over Half a Million Commodore 64 Disks
• 2025-08-08 14:00 - DEF CON 33 (2025) - 64-bit Intel Assembly Language Programming for Hackers Workshop
• 2024-08-10 10:00 - DEF CON 32 (2024) - Reverse Engineering MicroPython Frozen Modules: Data Structures, Reconstruction, and Reading Bytecode
• 2024-08-08 14:00 - DEF CON 32 (2024) - 64-bit Intel Assembly Language Programming for Hackers Workshop
• 2023-08-13 12:00 - DEF CON 31 (2023) - Retro Exploitation: Using Vintage Computing Platforms as a Vulnerability Research Playground and Learning Environment
• 2023-08-12 14:00 - DEF CON 31 (2023) - The Joy of Reverse Engineering: Learning With Ghidra and WinDbg Workshop
• 2019-10-10 13:00 - Texas Cyber Summit 2019 - RE-1012 Ghidra for the begineer reverse enginering
• 2018-08-10 11:00 - DEF CON 26 (2018) - An Attacker Looks at Docker: Approaching Multi-Container Applications
• 2018-08-08 14:40 - Black Hat USA 2018 - An Attacker Looks at Docker: Approaching Multi-Container Applications
• 2017-07-26 17:05 - Black Hat USA 2017 - Protecting Pentests: Recommendations for Performing More Secure Tests
• 2016-08-06 11:00 - DEF CON 24 (2016) - Secure Penetration Testing Operations: Demonstrated Weaknesses in Learning Material and Tools
• 2016-08-03 13:50 - Black Hat USA 2016 - Secure Penetration Testing Operations: Demonstrated Weaknesses in Learning Material and Tools
• 2015-08-08 12:00 - DEF CON 23 (2015) - I Hunt Penetration Testers: More Weaknesses in Tools and Procedures
• 2014-08-09 13:00 - DEF CON 22 (2014) - Instrumenting Point-of-Sale Malware: A Case Study in Communicating Malware Analysis More Effectively
• 2013-08-03 14:00 - DEF CON 21 (2013) - Pwn The Pwn Plug: Analyzing and Counter-Attacking Attacker-Implanted Devices
• 2012-07-29 11:00 - DEF CON 20 (2012) - SCADA HMI and Microsoft Bob: Modern Authentication Flaws With a 90's Flavor
• 2011-08-05 15:00 - DEF CON 19 (2011) - Covert Post-Exploitation Forensics With Metasploit