Nicky Bloor
Security Consultant Security Engineer at Cognitous Cyber Security
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNicky Bloor is an application security consultant and seasoned exploit developer with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering penetration tests, secure code reviews, IoT assessments, and vulnerability research for clients including Lab126 and enterprise environments. He combines deep reverse-engineering and offensive skills—IDA/Ghidra, Frida, custom Bluetooth/USB tools—with practical defensive delivery, having built open-source tools like BaRMIe and a Burp plugin (Freddy) and been credited with multiple high-profile CVEs (Adobe, HP, Oracle, Drupal). Nicky has a strong software development background across C/C++, Java, PHP, Python and modern web stacks, enabling him to both find complex chains (e.g., HP Device Manager RCE) and implement reliable remediation. He regularly presents technical research at conferences and produces detailed write-ups and tooling that other security teams use, showing a focus on reproducible, high-impact findings. Based in the UK, he pairs consultancy delivery with ongoing tool development and training, making him equally effective as a practitioner, researcher and mentor.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Internet Computing, BSc Internet Computing at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (6)
javas10
data-serialization10
java10
serialization10
command-line-interface8
build-automation7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NickstaDB/SerializationDumper
Aug 2017 - Dec 2021
A tool to dump Java serialization streams in a more human readable form.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 19 commits, 9 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nicky primarily worked on improving the `serializationdumper` tool. They fixed bugs related to proxy class descriptions and externalizable classes, and also addressed an issue with character reading. Furthermore, the user added support for rebuilding modified serialization streams. They also created build scripts and enhanced the tool's command-line interface by adding validation.
readablestreamsserializationhuman-readablejava-serialization
NickstaDB/PoC
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
Repo for proof of concept exploits and tools.
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 1 month
securityproof-of-conceptexploits
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