Luis Corrons:
Luis has been working for Panda Software since 1999. He started in the technical support department, helping home and corporative users with virus incidents. A year later, he joined the international technical support team assisting Panda's technical support belonging to their partners distributed over 50 countries around the world. In 2002, he became PandaLabs' director as well as malware alerts coordinator in worldwide infection situations, dealing with worm such as Klez, SQLSlammer, Sobig, Blaster. Sasser, Mydoom, etc. During this time, he has coordinated several automated projects related with malware, such as the automatic analisys and response system, and the malware automatic information system.
His first contact with computers was at the age of 4, with a Sharp MZ-80K, which he started Basic language programming with. His main hobbies are his wife Nerea, his dog Robin and his work as well as chess and videogames.
Ismael Briones:
Ismael has been working for Panda Security since 2003. He studied a degree in Telecommunications Engineering, in the field of Electronic Systems. He started as a project manager in our R+D department, where he contributed to the development and definition of TruPrevent Technologies. A year later, he joined PandaLabs as a malware researcher. Among his main tasks, he is responsible for analyzing Internet security threats, carrying out the reverse engineering of malicious code, developing security mechanisms to improve the proactive technologies that are distributed with our products. Ismael's research interests include HoneyPots, automated malware classification, rootkits, vulnerability research, network security and systems administration. Before joining Panda, he had been working as a system administrator and software developer for the Spanish journal El Mundo. During this time, he discovered some vulnerabilities in Oracle database software and 3Com 812 Router.
Vicente Martínez:
Vicente obtained a degree in Computer Applications Development. He has been working for Panda Security since 1999. He started in the technical support department, helping home and corporative users with virus incidents. Two years later, he became virus researcher in PandaLabs. In 2003, he became Senior Spyware Researcher. He has been heading the development of the antispyware technologies included in our products in PandaLabs. Thanks to these technologies, we have been awarded with several prizes and have reached the first positions in different comparatives. His main hobbies are playing games, above all Pro Evolution Soccer, and graph and video game programming.
Mario Ballano:
Mario joined Panda Security in May 2005; he had been previously working as an IT consultant and network security auditor. He has been always interested in low level programming and software reverse engineering, learning Intel's 386 assembly languages even before any other high level programming language. In his free time, he used to do malware analysis. He is currently working at PandaLabs, doing malware analysis, researching vulnerabilities, and programming security-related tools.
Sergio Piñeiro:
Sergio joined Panda Security on September 2006, and is responsible of the Surveillance Department at PandaLabs. He has been a technology consultant for almost 7 years. He studied "Computer Engineering", and has a degree as "Internet Solutions Specialist". During his studies he worked as a developer for 3 years. On February 2000 he joined the consulting Division at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he worked for the Application Innovation Services line. On 2002 he joined IBM Global Services where he worked as a technology consultant dedicated to provide e-Business solutions to corporate clients.