Umbriel's Caleb Gross drops Blackhat talk on applying information retrieval to vulnerability research
dyn___ · x · 2026-09-22
Caleb Gross (@noperator) of security firm Umbriel presented at Blackhat: 'Sift or get off the PoC: Applying information retrieval to vulnerability research.' The talk, now live, applies IR techniques to vulnerability research to help analysts sift signal from noise in PoCs and security data.
The post recommends pairing the talk with his complementary Phrack article, and notes its timeliness relative to the recent TypeSafe/Jev/System One buzz.
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