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Teaching.
Class is in session. Slides and code from what I teach, and the student projects I coordinate.
On the syllabus.
- Lecture
Types of Cyber Threats and Attacks
The threat landscape, then and now: the vulnerabilities famous enough to get names, and a tour of the OWASP Top 10, each with a real example and how to prevent it.
- Log4Shell and named vulnerabilities
- OWASP Top 10
- Injection and XSS
- Broken access control
- CSRF
Slides coming soon - Workshop · BIT, BEST Brașov · 2026
AI systems security and LLM vulnerabilities
A hands-on session on how AI systems get attacked, and what it takes to defend them.
- Prompt injection
- Jailbreaks
- Data and model poisoning
- Agent abuse
Slides coming soonThe code (opens in a new tab)
Coordinated.
Student projects I coordinated. Each one takes a real security job and asks how much of it can be automated, and trusted.
2026 6 projects
Automatic Reconnaissance for Web Applications
By Alexandru-Mihai Ginerică
Automated Infrastructure Management and Hardening using Agentic Frameworks
By Ștefan-Cristian Jarcău
Vulnerability Scanner for IAM Systems
By Radu-Cătălin Petre
Intelligent Risk Assessment and Compliance Verification
By Alina-Maria Posea
YARA Rule Optimization via Intelligent Pipeline
By Daniel Stănculescu
Agentic Penetration Testing with Deterministic Orchestration and Hybrid LLM Reasoning
By Cosmin-Sebastian Badea and Daiana Horvath