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Nico Waisman

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Nico Waisman

@nicowaisman

CISO at @XBOW. Former CISO @Lyft. Binary entomologist

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Joined January 2009

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Nico Waisman
@nicowaisman
Oct 30, 2025
Excited to join @lightspeedvp , @FortuneMagazine , and @awscloud at the NYSE opening bell ceremony this morning!
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Nico Waisman
@nicowaisman
Oct 30, 2025
Honored to see our hard work recognized! Huge credit to our engineering, security, and AI teams for their relentless effort in building the most advanced autonomous pentester on the market.
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Nico Waisman
@nicowaisman
May 2, 2022
Some personal news: I have been appointed CISO at @lyft last week. Super excited to continue growing our security & privacy program. If you are interested, we have openings in many areas
Lyft Careers
From lyft.com
Nico Waisman
@nicowaisman
Aug 11, 2020
Super excited about this new chapter in my career, I join @lyft as the new head of security and privacy! We have openings in our team (US & Mexico). Please DM if you are interested.
Nico Waisman
@nicowaisman
Nov 14, 2019
I’m excited to announce the GitHub Security Lab! Our mission is to inspire and enable the global security research community to secure the world's code. Check out!
GitHub Security Lab
From securitylab.github.com
Nico Waisman
@nicowaisman
Jul 15, 2019
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Nico Waisman
@nicowaisman
Aug 20, 2021
Hey all! I decide to offer public Office Hours. If you are interested to talk about security careers, mentorship, discuss your security startup or anything else, please reach out! calendly.com/nico_waisman/n…
Nico Waisman
@nicowaisman
Jun 13, 2019
This is my last week at Immunity. It’s been some of the most amazing 16 years of my life, I’m very proud of what we have built but it’s time for me to move on!
Nico Waisman
@nicowaisman
Jul 16, 2020
Can we stop with "Human is the weakest link!" please? It's a debt security people have, not a people problem. Everyone can be fooled into clicking a malicious link, we owe people to built better system to prevent/detect those actions to happen.
Nico Waisman
@nicowaisman
Aug 6, 2020
In other bittersweet news, this is my last week at @GitHub. I had a fantastic time working for such a great company, where I help built a Security Research team focus on helping secure OSS. (1/n)
Nico Waisman
@nicowaisman
Oct 17, 2019
Found this bug on Monday. An overflow on the linux rtlwifi driver on P2P (Wifi-Direct), while parsing Notice of Absence frames. The bug has been around for at least 4 years
CVE
@CVEnew
Oct 17, 2019
CVE-2019-17666 rtl_p2p_noa_ie in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/ps.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.6 lacks a certain upper-bound check, leading to a buffer overflow. cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvenam…
Nico Waisman
@nicowaisman
May 14, 2019
Natalie's (@natashenka ) Infiltrate 2019 talk on her video conferencing application research was just released. She did research on WebRTC, Whatsapp, Facetime, etc.
Nico Waisman
@nicowaisman
May 27, 2019
This CVE thingy has gone a little far. This dude wrote a shitty http server for a college course. Someone found a basic stack overflow and assign a CVE to it (CVE-2019-12198)
stack-buffer-overflow 619 characters in User-Agent string causes stack-overflow. · Issue #18 ·...
From github.com
Nico Waisman
@nicowaisman
Jun 30, 2020
Five minutes before a call I obsessively look at the clock to avoid missing it, and then suddenly i jump into a timeless task to realize I'm late. Anyone else experience that?
Nico Waisman
@nicowaisman
May 5, 2021
Start-up idea: A Google Meet plug-in that connect with your HR software and tell you the cost of a meeting based on the participants hourly rate.