Marc Ruef
Member Of The Board, Head Of Research at ASMZ (Allgemeine Schweizerische Militär Zeitschrift)
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMarc Ruef is a veteran cybersecurity researcher, author and entrepreneur who has led offensive security and research at scip AG and serves as lead architect of the widely used VulDB vulnerability database. With a publishing career spanning 16 books, 275+ articles in seven languages and over 200 media appearances, he blends deep technical craft—writing tools, exploits and AI-driven security tooling—with public-facing research and coordinated vulnerability disclosures (including automotive and medical-device issues). He has taught cybersecurity at ETH Zurich and multiple universities for nearly two decades, bringing real-world red-team experience and academic rigor to courses on darknet, malware and firmware/device security. A hands-on leader, he founded one of the first German-language security communities as a teenager and still codes security testing tools and AI experiments. Based in Zurich, he combines board-level strategy with day-to-day threat research, monitoring darknet markets and developing novel risk-analysis models for customers.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
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German, English, French
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Github Skills (88)
penetration-testing10
vulnerability-scanners10
cracking10
security10
lua10
malware10
vulnerability-detection10
cyber-threat-intelligence10
fingerprinting10
vulnerability-research10
brute-force-attacks10
nse10
vulnerability-assessment10
threat-intelligence10
bruteforce10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
marcruef/scau
Aug 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
vuldb/cvelist
Mar 2022 - Jan 2025
CVE handling by VulDB CNA Team (no external commits accepted). This repository is retired as all CVE exchanges happen via CVE CNA API.
Contributions:2 PRs, 694 pushes, 254 branches in 2 years 10 months
cvevulnerabilityvulnerability-managementvulnerability-identificationvulnerability-research
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