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Old McDonald is a Windows guy who is the author of Autorun Eater which prevents malware infections from removable storage devices(flash drives, external hard disks, etc) by removing any suspicious ‘autorun.inf'. He can be reached at his farm: http://oldmcdonald.wordpress.com/, the home of Autorun Eater.

Eric Steven Raymond was born on December 4, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is an Open source software advocate and programmer, and maintainer of "The New Hackers Dictionary" or formerly known as the Jargon File. In 1998 he published the "Halloween documents" that were leaked from Microsoft. He also authored "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" (1997) and the book "The Art of Unix Programming" (2003).

Whitehat by trade, Blackhat by fashion. A firm believer in the hacker ethic of openess , sharing, and collaboration. Never afraid to try something new, he can usually be found taking unnessecary risks for the sake of the experience. One of the more visible and vocal members of the wardriving community. A noted expert in the field of wireless security, he has spoken at many international conferences such as Black Hat and DEFCON, and taught several classes on free wireless assessment tools. Brad/RenderMan also contributed over time to many wireless security tools such as the Kismet wireless sniffer, and coWPAtty.

His skills have been learned in the trenches working for various IT companies as well as his involvement through the years with the hacking community. A firm believer in the hacker ethos and promoting responsible hacking and sharing of ideas, he wrote the “Stumbler Ethic” for beginning wardrivers and greatly enjoys speaking at conferences to dissuade the negative image of hackers and wardrivers.

Meister is a Tunisian coder, pentester, reformed defacer, exploiter and the web administrator of th3-0utl4ws.com which is the home of the Th3 0uTl4wS Team. His website contains exploit databases, tools, projects, guides, links, and open source scripts. The website is also known for their online tools like the Admin page finder, PHP Obfuscator, JS Encryptor, Online photoshop editor, Unescape Encoder/Decoder, Base64 Converter, Combinations calculator and many more.

He has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in famous websites and services like TRUSTe Seals, Drupal, DIS Banking , XeroBank , International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), La Poste FR or USGS Gov.

Massimiliano Montoro a.k.a mao is the owner of www.oxid.it which is the home of Cain & Abel Password Recovery Tool and his other projects. Cain and Abel is a password recovery tool in Windows that does “network sniffing, cracking encrypted passwords using dictionary and brute force attacks, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols".

George Francis Hotz (born October 2, 1989), alias geohot, million75 or simply mil, is an American hacker became well-known for his masterful ability to hack Apple's legendary iOS software. He was succesful at unlocking the iPhone, allowing the phone to be used with other wireless carriers, contrary to AT&T and Apple's intent. Then, he took his efforts to the next level and was able to gain direct access to Sony's Playstation 3 by enabling read and write access to the machine's system memory and gaining hypervisor level access to the machine's processor. Essentially, this allowed homebrew and PlayStation 2 emulation.

Active member of the vulnerabilty discovery community whom had his webpage hacked to release the news that rgod had died. This in fact was a RUMOR. rgod is still posting vulnerabilties to various databases and at the time of this article had 10 pages of vulnerabilties in exploit-db alone (with the majority of those exploits geared towards php)

Keith Makan is a Computer Science and Physics Student from Cape Town,South Africa. A computer geek who is interested in hacking, Google dorks, Information Security and the Cyber War.

Jason A. Donenfeld is a security researcher and programmer who discovered and posted a proof-of-concept exploit called "mempodipper," for Linux kernel releases 2.6.39 - 3.0.14. He is also know for publishing a 'PoC for Linux Kernel < 2.6.37-rc2 TCP_MAXSEG Kernel Panic DoS', 'FreeBSD <= 6.4 Netgraph Local Privledge Escalation Exploit', and 'PolicyKit Pwnage: linux local privilege escalation on polkit-1 <= 0.101'.

Mohit Kumar is the founder and Editor-in-chief of The Hacker News which is website that brings you news related to computer security, information security and hacking. He is from Delhi, India. He is good in SEO that is why his website has many hits. In an interview he had with a journalist from Hacker5 Magazine, he said , "I am the most secured person in the world, so hack me if you can....."