Dave Aitel

IRL Name:

Dave Aitel

Biography:

Dave Aitel is a computer security professional. He joined the NSA as a research scientist aged 18 where he worked for six years before being employed as a consultant at @stake for three years. In 2002 he founded a software security company, Immunity, where he is now the CTO.

Aitel co-authored several books:

* The Hacker's Handbook: The Strategy Behind Breaking into and Defending Networks. ISBN 978-0849308888
* The Shellcoder's Handbook. ISBN 978-0764544682
* Beginning Python. ISBN 978-0764596544

He is also well known for writing several security tools:
* CANVAS, an automated exploitation system
* SPIKE, a block-based fuzzer
* SPIKE Proxy, a man-in-the-middle web application assessment tool
* Unmask, a tool to do statistical analysis on text to determine authorship

Facts

Facts:

Actually knows his shit (unlike many people in the security industry who have never coded an exploit)

Contracted by the USMC Red Team.

Rumors

Rumors:

Sells exploits to the Chinese.

References

References:

Reference:

http://www.immunitysec.com

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/472