Paulino Calderon
Co-Founder at NoStarch Press
Quintana Roo, Mexico
Summary
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Top SchoolPaulino Calderon is a security-focused entrepreneur and co-founder of Websec, delivering information security consulting across Mexico and Canada with 15+ years of hands-on experience. An active Nmap NSE developer and long-time contributor to OWASP projects, his tooling and scripts are relied upon by millions of infosec professionals and improve web-scanning and default-credential detection at scale. He’s authored practical security books, including Practical IoT Hacking and two Nmap-focused titles, and mentors students through Google Summer of Code and OWASP initiatives. Equally comfortable in boardrooms and at conference workshops, he has presented in over 50 events worldwide and organizes regional OWASP activities like the Riviera Maya chapter and OWASP LATAM Tour. Based in Cozumel, he blends island-life focus with a global consulting practice and continues to publish impactful open-source NSE scripts that enhance automated vulnerability discovery.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of VictoriaCumbres Cozumel
English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
lua10
http10
security-testing10
nmap10
networking9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cldrn/nmap-nse-scripts
May 2011 - Jan 2022
My collection of nmap NSE scripts
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:161 commits, 5 PRs, 52 pushes in 10 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Paulino primarily contributed to the `http-default-accounts-fingerprints.lua` file, adding and modifying fingerprints for various web applications and routers. Their work involved implementing login checks using HTTP requests, supporting multiple login combinations, and integrating with a creds library. These changes enhanced the functionality of the nmap-nse-scripts repository by improving the ability to detect and potentially exploit default credentials for web applications and network devices. They also refactored code and added documentation.
nmapluanmap-scriptsnetwork-toolsnse
cldrn/pentesting
Jun 2012 - Jul 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 13 pushes in 6 years 2 months
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