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Jon Williams Senior Security Engineer

As a researcher for the Bishop Fox Capability Development team, Jon spends his time hunting for vulnerabilities and writing exploits for software on our customers' attack surface. Jon has written and presented research on various topics including enterprise wireless network attacks, bypassing network access controls, and reverse-engineering edge security device firmware.

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Aug 15, 2025

Vulnerability Discovery with LLM-Powered Patch Diffing

Apr 24, 2025

SonicWall Sonicos Versions 7.1.x and 8.0.x

Mar 21, 2025

SonicWall-CVE-2024-53704: Exploit Details

Mar 18, 2025

Tomcat CVE-2025-24813: What You Need to Know

Feb 24, 2025

Tearing Down (Sonic)Walls: Decrypting SonicOSX Firmware

Feb 10, 2025

SonicWall CVE-2024-53704: SSL VPN Session Hijacking

Jan 15, 2024

It’s 2024 and Over 178,000 SonicWall Firewalls are Publicly Exploitable

Aug 02, 2023

Breaking Fortinet Firmware Encryption

Jul 21, 2023

Citrix ADC Gateway RCE: CVE-2023-3519 is Exploitable, and 53% of Servers Are Unpatched

May 17, 2023

A More Complete Exploit for Fortinet CVE-2022-42475

Sep 12, 2019

Breaching the Trusted Perimeter | Automating Exploitation

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Explore Bishop Fox's experimental research into applying Large Language Models to vulnerability research and patch diffing workflows. This technical guide presents methodology, data, and insights from structured experiments testing LLM capabilities across high-impact CVEs, offering a transparent look at where AI shows promise and where challenges remain.

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