David Luber
Founder at Core4ce
Fort Meade, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Luber is a cybersecurity and national security executive with nearly four decades of federal service and a proven track record leading large, high-stakes cyber organizations, including senior leadership roles at NSA and USCYBERCOM. He founded Luber Cyber LLC and now advises government, industry, and commercial space firms on the intersection of space and cyber, post-quantum communications, and resilient defensive operations. Known for building high-performance teams and executing complex campaigns against nation-state adversaries, he also helped set national standards for encryption and shaped executive-level cyber policy. An active practitioner in defensive tooling, his open-source contributions include YARA rules and analysis scripts to detect and mitigate web shells—practical work that complements his strategic roles. Based in Fort Meade, he blends operational experience, academic engagement, and advisory positions across emerging tech and critical infrastructure.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Network Security / Cybersecurity, Master's degree Network Security / Cybersecurity at Capitol Technology UniversityBachelors of Science Computer and Information Science, Bachelors of Science Computer and Information Science at University of Maryland Global Campus
Github Skills (11)
it-security10
php10
yara10
security10
python9
powershell9
analyse8
data-analysis8
text-analysis8
file-parsing8
log-analysis8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
nsacyber/Mitigating-Web-Shells
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Guidance for mitigation web shells. #nsacyber
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:35 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:David's contributions primarily involve creating and updating YARA rules for web shell detection. They authored rules to detect common web shell artifacts, suspicious and obfuscated functionalities, and hidden functionalities. The user also updated existing rules to improve detection capabilities and incorporated checks for dangerous or dodgy PHP code patterns. Furthermore, the user contributed to the creation of supporting scripts for security analysis, including PowerShell and Python scripts to aid in analyzing log files and file comparisons.
pythonwebshellsshellsguidancemitigation
nsacyber/Blocking-Outdated-Web-Technologies
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 6 pushes in 7 months
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