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.
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.
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.
Javier Vazquez Vidal is a hardware security specialist who enjoys reverse engineering products and has presented at international conferences like DEFCON and Blackhat. He has been involved in several reversing projects that go from a simple IP camera to the well known PS3. He has worked for Airbus Military among other companies.
He studied Electromechanics and Telecommunications, developing a passion for electronics and technology since his youth.
Barak Sternberg is a Founder @ "Wild Pointer", Security Research Company, Barak is a frequent speaker at cybersecurity conferences, including DEFCON. His Previous Talks include: "Extension-land exploits and rootkits in your browser extensions" @DEFCON29, "Hacking smart devices for fun and profit" @DEFCON 28 IoT Village. Barak is also Hacker-In-Residence at YL Ventures, where he researches emerging cybersecurity trends and technologies & conducts technological due diligence. Prior to founding "Wild-Pointer", Barak was a Senior Security Researcher at Sentinel One and a Senior Security Researcher and Innovation Lead at Blue-Ocean. Barak holds a BSC Degree and a Master of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science focused on algorithms from Tel Aviv University.
Balazs Bucsay is a Hungarian hacker and security researcher who gave multiple talks around the globe (Atlanta, Moscow, Philippines, Singapore, London, Melbourne, Honolulu) on various topics and released several tools and papers about the latest techniques. He has multiple certifications (OSCE, OSCP, OSWP) related to penetration testing, exploit writing and other low-level topics and degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science.
Ludvig "Ludde" Strigeus (born January 1981) is a Swedish programmer, best known for developing software such as the BitTorrent client μTorrent, OpenTTD, and Spotify.
Hiroaki Etoh is a former engineer from IBM Japan who created Propolice/Stack Smashing Protector (SSP) 2000 and announced it on the gcc and bugtraq lists in August 2000.
Andy Nguyen is an Information Security Engineer at Google focusing on Cloud Vulnerability Research. Andy has been hacking PlayStation consoles since 16 years old and has released multiple jailbreaks for the PS Vita and published multiple kernel vulnerabilities for the PS4 / FreeBSD.
Azer Koçulu is an open-source developer who had been publishing and maintaining his packages on npm for other developers to use and include in their packages. Out of his ~270 packages on npm, one of them was called kik, which helped programmers set up templates for their projects.
Kik also happens to be the name of a freeware instant messaging mobile app available on both android and iOS, from the company Kik interactive based in Ontario, Canada. Kik Interactive contacted him objecting to his use of the name, for which the company claimed intellectual property rights, and asked him to change the name. When Koçulu refused, Kik Interactive contacted npm management, who agreed to transfer ownership of the module to Kik without Koçulu's consent. Koçulu then unpublished all of his modules from npm, including a popular eleven-line code module called "left-pad" upon which many JavaScript projects depended. Although Koçulu subsequently published left-pad on GitHub, its sudden removal from npm caused many projects (including Kik itself) to stop working, due to their dependency on the Node and Babel packages.
In view of widespread software disruption, npm restored Koçulu's left-pad and made Cameron Westland of Autodesk its maintainer. The incident sparked controversies over the assertion of intellectual property rights and the use of dependencies in software development.