Ben Hawkes is a researcher, student, professional hacker and part-time industry philosophizer from New Zealand. Hawkes' interests are in reverse engineering, exploit development, and cryptography/mathematics. Hawkes is from a small but fearless younger generation of hackers, bringing an aggressive and technical style to security research. Ben has discovered dozens of serious vulnerabilities across a number of different software platforms (including Android, Linux, and Windows). He has regularly presented and published research focused on vulnerability analysis and software exploitation, such as novel heap exploitation techniques on Windows.