Rate My Professor Bill Mahoney

Mahoney's academic interests center on compilers, security in programming languages and design, software obfuscation, reverse engineering, and industrial control system security. His detailed research focuses include intermediate representation vulnerability analysis, software fingerprinting for intellectual property protection and executable steganography, anti-reverse engineering obfuscation techniques, and industrial control systems security involving CIP, EtherNet/IP protocols, PLC reverse engineering, SCADA applications in transportation and airports, and regulatory compliance modeling. He teaches courses such as Low Level Programming, Industrial Control Security, Host-based Vulnerability Discovery, Secure Embedded Systems, Operating Systems, and Compiler Construction. Mahoney has authored numerous publications, including the journal articles 'A Digital Forensic Analysis of An Electrocardiogram (ECG) Medical Device: A First Look' in WIREs Forensic Science (2024, with George Grispos and Frank Tursi), 'Cyber Pirates Ahoy! An Analysis of Cybersecurity Challenges in the Shipping Industry' in International Journal of Information Warfare (2022, with George Grispos), and conference papers such as 'The Forgotten Stub: Exploring Malicious Use of the PE DOS Header' at the 25th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (2026, with Sayonnha Mandal and Kshitiz Aryal), 'Deconstructing Dice and Destiny: Reverse Engineering for Deterministic Insights into a Probabilistic Game' at the 24th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (2025), and the book chapter 'Smart Grid Tamper Detection using Learned Event Patterns' (Springer, 2013). His contributions advance cybersecurity practices in vulnerability analysis, secure software development, and critical infrastructure protection.