He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Valladolid and a postgraduate degree in Information and Communication Technology Security from the Universidad Oberta de Cataluña and the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
Currently, he is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Zunder, a company specialized in ultra-fast charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. In academia, he is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Valladolid and a member of the Privacy Engineering Research Group. In addition, he teaches in the Master in Cybersecurity and Information Security at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and in the master’s in information and communication technologies security at the European University of Madrid. He has participated in specialized conferences such as Navaja Negra, RootedCON and Jornadas STIC del CCN-CERT, and is co-author of the books “Hacking Web Technologies 2nd Edition” and “Raspberry Pi for Hackers and Makers: PoCs & Hacks Just for Fun”.
In addition, it has discovered security vulnerabilities, such as the one registered under the code CVE-2020-35710.
Publications
Año 2024
Pérez-Fuente, Alejandro; Martínez-González, M. Mercedes; Aparicio, Amador and Moro, Quiliano Isaac. Un Data Warehouse para el Estudio de la Privacidad y Seguridad de Aplicaciones Móviles. Actas de las IX Jornadas Nacionales de Investigación en Ciberseguridad, JNIC 2024, Sevilla, 27 a 29 de mayo de 2024, Antonia M. Reina Quintero, Rafael Ceballos Guerrero, Ángel J. Varela Vaca (eds.), pp. 624-631. ISBN 978-84-09-62140-8 https://idus.us.es/items/508e612b-3df5-458a-98be-2d5f7c3fb7d2
Aparicio, Amador; Martínez-González, M. Mercedes and Criado-Lozano, Pablo Abel. World App: El Secreto de tus Ojos está en los permisos Android. Actas de las IX Jornadas Nacionales de Investigación en Ciberseguridad, JNIC 2024, Sevilla, 27 a 29 de mayo de 2024, Antonia M. Reina Quintero, Rafael Ceballos Guerrero, Ángel J. Varela Vaca (eds.), pp.245-252. ISBN 978-84-09-62140-8 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380519315_World_App_El_Secreto_de_tus_Ojos_esta_en_los_permisos_Android
Martínez-González, M. Mercedes; Aparicio, Amador; Pérez-Fuente, Alejandro; Criado, Pablo Abel; Gonzalo Tasis, Margarita and Moro, Quiliano Isaac. Marco para una autoprotección eficaz de la privacidad en entornos móviles. XVIII Reunión Española de Criptología y Seguridad de la Información, RECSI 2024. León, 23-25 de octubre de 2024. https://buleria.unileon.es/handle/10612/24657
Martínez-González, M. Mercedes; Pérez-Fuente, Alejandro; Aparicio, Amador; Criado Lozano, Pablo. (2024). Using the Metadata-Based App-PI Ecosystem to Assess the Privacy Impact of Health Apps. 10.1007/978-3-031-77571-0_50. Using the metadata-based App-PI ecosystem to assess the privacy impact of Health apps. 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, UCAmI 2024. November 27th to November 29th, 2024 – Ulster University – Belfast (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-77571-0_50
Año 2023
Aparicio, Amador ; Martínez-González, M. Mercedes; Cardeñoso, Valentín. (2023). App-based detection of vulnerable implementations of SMS OTP APIs in the banking industry. Wireless Networks 30, 6451-6464 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-023-03455-w
Aparicio, A., Martínez-González, M.M., Cardeñoso, V. (2023). Vulnerabilities of the SMS Retriever API for the Automatic Verification of SMS OTP Codes in the Banking Sector. In: Bravo, J., Ochoa, S., Favela, J. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2022). UCAmI 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 594, 983-994. Springer, Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21333-5_99
Año 2022
Aparicio, Amador & Martínez-González, M. Mercedes & Cardeñoso-Payo, Valentín. (2022). Métrica basada en grupos de permisos para entender el impacto de las aplicaciones Android sobre la privacidad. DOI:10.23919/CISTI54924.2022.9820147
Año 2020
Aparicio de la Fuente, Amador; Criado Lozano, Pablo Abel y Alonso del Bosque, Héctor. (2020). Raspberry Pi para Hackers & Makers: PoCs & Hacks Just for Fun! 0xWord.
Año 2016
Rando, Enrique; González, Pablo; Aparicio, Amador; Martín, Ricardo y Alonso, Chema. (2016). Hacking Web Technologies – Silver Edition. OxWord.