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Bernd Fix

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Bernd Fix
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Bernd Fix (born 19 March 1962 in Wittingen, Lower Saxony) is a German hacker and computer security expert.

In 1986 Fix joined the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in Hamburg and started to work on computer security issues, focussing on computer virus research.

From 1987 to 1989 Fix was one of the spokespersons for the Chaos Computer Club and author for the "Hacker Bible 2".

After the death of his friend Wau Holland (co-founder of the Chaos Computer Club) in 2001 Fix helped to establish the Wau Holland Foundation and serves as a founding member of the Board of Directors ever since.

According to Fix, when the Wau Holland Foundation started official operations in 2003, he and other founding members were in contact with Julian Assange and in 2009 they decided to support WikiLeaks. According to an interview from 2011, he got fired from his job at SIX Financial Information because of the foundation's support for WikiLeaks.

In July 2016, on the same day "Guccifer 2.0" sent Assange an encrypted 1 GB file containing stolen DNC emails, German hackers Andrew Müller-Maguhn and Bernd Fix met with Assange for at least four hours. Müller-Maguhn, the Wau Holland Foundation Vice President, is named in the Mueller report as a possible conduit for delivering hacked emails to Assange.According to The Washington Post, a former WikiLeaks associate said that year Müller-Maguhn and a colleague oversaw submissions to WikiLeaks server that year, which Müller-Maguhn denied. According to court documents, Müller-Maguhn and Bernd Fix were identified as priority targets of UC Global's spying.

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Tijme Gommers

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Tijme Gommers
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Tijme Gommers is a security researcher, red teamer and polyglot software engineering professional who devotes time to research related to cybernetic security. Over the past years, his research mainly focused on Adversary Tactics and Red Team Operations and works on the development of current exploit code and malware, used to simulate APT’s penetrating target organizations.

He has contributed to enterprise software applications using a large variety of programming languages. But what he appreciates most is developing non-commercial open-source software such as Raivo OTP (link); a one-time-password manager.

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Eviatar Gerzi

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Eviatar Gerzi
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Eviatar Gerzi worked in a range of professions in the security industry (malware analysis, security researcher, mobile hacking, etc.). During this time, he developed open-source projects (security tools). His projects include: Ketshash, Manifesto, KubiScan, Kubeltctl, and Kubesploit. His research is on DevOps security, focusing on Docker and Kubernetes.

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Hardik Shah

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Hardik Shah
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Hardik Shah is a security researcher who is known for presenting fuzzing and vulnerability discovery and analysis workshops in conferences. He has discovered 35+ vulnerabilities in Microsoft and various open source software. He had conducted workshops at conferences such as Defcon, Bsides, RSA dark arts, and many others.

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maxpl0it

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Max Van Amerongen
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Max Van Amerongen aka maxpl0it is a vulnerability researcher who focuses on finding security holes in critical software and is an occasional Pwn2Owner. He had previously worked and SentinelOne and F-Secure Labs, where he successfully participated in the Pwn2Own hacking contest a number of times.

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Andrey Konovalov

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Andrey Konovalov
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Andrey Konovalov is a security researcher focusing on the Linux kernel. He found multiple zero-day bugs in the Linux kernel and published proof-of-concept exploits to demonstrate the impact. Andrey is a contributor to several security-related Linux kernel subsystems and tools: KASAN — a fast dynamic bug detector, syzkaller — a production-grade kernel fuzzer, and Arm Memory Tagging Extension — an exploit mitigation.

Andrey spoke at security conferences such as OffensiveCon, Android Security Symposium, Linux Security Summit, LinuxCon, and PHDays.

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Michael Gillespie

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Michael Gillespie
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Michael Gillespie is a ransomware researcher who analyzes ransomware so that he can create free decryptors for ransomware victims. He is the author of the following free decryptors: STOPDecrypter, AuroraDecrypter, FilesLockerDecrypter, InsaneCrypt (desuCrypt) Decrypter, GIBON Ransomware Decryptor, StrikedDecrypter, BitKangarooDecrypter, etc.

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TryCatchHCF

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Joe Gervais
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Joe Gervais is a former CISO, Red/Blue Teamer and developer. He is the creator of DumpsterFire, CloakifyFactory, PacketWhisper. He passed away in his sleep peacefully in January 2023 after battling cancer for several years.

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Joel Serna Moreno

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Joel Serna Moreno
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Joel Serna Moreno is a computer security researcher who has participated in events such as Navaja Negra, MorterueloCON, Eastmadhack, Noconname, Ciberweek Girona and given talks at several institutes and universities. He has also written articles on the computer security blog TheHackerWay and has been mentioned in several publications related to computer security.

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Kevin2600

IRL Name: 
Huajiang Chen
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Kevin2600 is a known Chinese car hacker who has presented his vulnerability research in wireless and embedded systems especially cars in hacker conferences. He enjoys hacking Tesla, Honda, and anything that involves RF, NFC and Smart Biometrics.

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