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Matteo Beccaro, also known as bughardy, is a young security researcher and consultant who lives Northern Italy. With an emphasis on wireless security, NFC in particular, bughardy has spoken at a number of security conferences to include DEFCON, Blackhat, TetCon, and 30C3. He is also the author of the NFC Ultralight Toolkit, or "NFCulT", a tool which uses the NFC capability of an Android device to exploit already known vulnerabilities as well as assist with developing new NFC exploits. Currently, Matteo is a computer engineering student at Politecnico di Torino in Italy, as well as a security engineer at Secure Network S.r.l.

Dan Tentler, also known as Viss, is the founder and director of security research for AtenLabs, and co-founder and CTO of Carbon Dynamics. He has spoken twice at DEFCON on the SHODAN search engine. Previously, he has worked for Rapid7 and Twitter. He is also known to teach lock-picking and for giving "witness-style" statements to the press on "information security affairs".

Tyler Nighswander, also known as "tylerni7", is well known within the Capture the Flag (CTF) community as a member of Carnegie Mellon University's Plaid Parliament of Pwning CTF Team, and co-organizer of the PlaidCTF. He can be found in a variety of IRC channels on Freenode and frequently speaks on reverse engineering, exploitation, and CTF organization. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2013 earning a Bachelor of Science degree in both Computer Science and Physics. Currently, Tyler is a researcher at CyLab and lives in Pittsburgh, PA.

Eugene H. Spafford is one of the senior, most recognized leaders in the field of computing. He has been honored with nearly every possible award in cyber security, including induction into the Cyber Security Hall of Fame; every major award at Purdue University for teaching; and many major awards for distinguished service to the computing community, including the CRA Distinguished Service Award. He is the only person to receive all three of the National Computer Security Award, be inducted into the Cyber Security Hall of Fame, and receive the Hal Tipton Award. He is also the only person ever to be named as a Fellow of the combination of the (ISC)2, ISSA, ACM, IEEE, and AAAS.

Spaf (as he is known to friends) has established an on-going record of accomplishment as a senior advisor and consultant on issues of security and intelligence, education, cybercrime and computing policy to a number of major companies, law enforcement organizations, academic and government agencies, including Microsoft, Intel, Tripwire, SignaCert, Unisys, the US Air Force, the National Security Agency, the GAO, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Justice, the Department of Energy, and the staff of two Presidents of the United States. With over three decades of experience as a researcher and instructor, Professor Spafford has worked in software engineering, reliable distributed computing, host and network security, digital forensics, computing policy, and computing curriculum design. He is responsible for a number of "firsts" in several of these areas.

Dr. Eugene Spafford is a professor with an appointment in Computer Science at Purdue University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1987. He also has courtesy appointments as a professor of Philosophy , a professor of Communication , a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering , and a professor of Political Science. He is the Executive Director of the Purdue University Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). In 2012 he was named as one of Purdue's inaugural Morrill Professors -- the university's highest award for the combination of scholarship, teaching, and service.

Blake Self was initially most widely known for co-authoring the first commercial encrypted instant messenger with Dr. Cyrus Peikari while at VirusMD in the late 90s. He has since become known for his various talks at information security conferences. He has been attending Defcon since high school and has given several talks. He has also spoken at the SERC Showcase, CERIAS Symposium, S^2ERC Showcase, and Hackcon. He has worked as a SIPRNET Administrator, Department of Defense Red Team Analyst, Director of Information Technology, and R&D at various corporations. He currently works in the financial sector and was directly involved in defending against the DDoS attacks of Operation Ababil. Blake holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University.

Marijn is a web administrator of Net-Force.nl which is a website where people interested in security can play so-called 'hack challenges', read articles about security and hacking and communicate with each other about these subjects via the forums or IRC. He ran Net-Force since the beginning of November 2003.

Jheto Xekri is a Colombian cross-platform developer who is interested into creating PoC's of security flaws. He created a python tool called CardingLocator which tracks carders' posts. He once wrote a POC in 2011 to demonstrate how to inject binary files on windows wherein Microsoft and its researchers involved him in the legal process Zeus / SpyEye, and was in charge of this inject banking Trojan in the internet.

From his wireless village bio:

"Russell has been in the information security realm for 15 years. He built and sold a wireless ISP, worked info sec in the financial services industry and now is a public servant of sorts."

Not much is known about Russ beyond what's listed in relation to his work with DEFCON wireless village.

From his DEFCON Village Bio:

"By day DaKahuna works for a small defense contractor as a consultant to large government agencies providing critical reviews of existing and proposed network and security architectures, consulting on information assurance and information security policies, standards and guidance. By night he enjoys roaming the airwaves , be it the amateur radio bands or wireless networks. He is a father of two, grandfather to three, 24 year Navy veteran communicator, holder of an amateur radio Extra Class license and a staunch supporter and exerciser of his 2nd Amendment rights who enjoys shooting targets out to 1200 yards."

Is a member of the NoVA Hackers group.

Ivan Ristic is a security researcher, engineer, and author who is the developer of ModSecurity, an open source web application firewall, and is known for his SSL/TLS and PKI research, tools and guides published on the SSL Labs web site.