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John Viega

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John Viega
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John Viega is an American computer security specialist who is co-author of a number of books on computer security, including The Myths of Security (O'Reilly, 2009), Beautiful Security, (O'Reilly, 2009) Building Secure Software (Addison Wesley, 2001), Network Security with OpenSSL (O’Reilly, 2002), the Secure Programming Cookbook (O’Reilly, 2003) and the 19 Deadly Sins of Software Security (McGraw Hill, 2005). contributions to field of software security also include OWASP's CLASP, a lightweight process for relating software development to security, a number of encryption implementations and early static analysis tools such as Rough Auditing Tool for Security and ITS4.

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Zy0d0x

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Michael Johnson
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Michael Johnson a.k.a Zy0d0x is a member of the nullsecurity team and the owner of zy0d0x.com. He is known for authoring U3-Pwn, a Sandisk Executable Injection Tool.

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superkojiman

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Harold Rodriguez
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superkojiman is a system administrator, programmer, and computer security enthusiast and the author of Brainpan. You can often find him pwning pwnables for VulnHub.

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Trojan7Sec

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Trojan7Sec claims to be a former blackhat who became a whitehat / security researcher later after learning that he would be a father soon. Together with Jonathan Ferretti, they released a DDoS amplification script they believe is capable of producing 60 Gbps. He also claims that he was previously part of a group of 300 hackers who, he believes, sold up to 70% of the total number of 0-day vulnerabilities on the market.

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Adam Shostack

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Adam Shostack
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Adam Shostack helped found the CVE, the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium and the International Financial Cryptography Association. He has been a leader at a number of successful information security and privacy startups, and is co-author of the book, The New School of Information Security. He shipped the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Threat Modeling Tool and the Elevation of Privilege threat modeling game as a member of the SDL team.

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Dennis Gamayunov

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Dennis Gamayunov
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Dennis Gamayunov is a PhD, Senior Researcher, and Acting Head of the Information Systems Security Lab, Computer Science Dept. of Moscow State University, Russia. He is also the leader of the network security research group in MSU, project lead of the experimental event-drive and natively multicore Redsecure IDS/IPS.

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Svetlana Gaivoronski

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Svetlana Gaivoronski
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Svetlana Gaivoronski is a former member of the Bushwhackers CTF team which shows the following results in recent years: 2nd place in Deutsche Post Security Cup 2010, 6th place in the final of ruCTF 2012 (8th at qualification), 12th place at ruCTF Europe 2011, 4th place in the final of ruCTF 2011 (and 1st at qualification), etc. Svetlana works at Redsecure project (experimental IDS/IPS) at Moscow State University. She is also the author of Demorpheus, an open source tool for detecting and filtering of unknown 0-days exploits at the network level.

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Donato Ferrante

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Donato Ferrante
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Donato Ferrante is a security researcher and co-founder of ReVuln Ltd. Prior to founding ReVuln Ltd., Donato was a Security Researcher for Research In Motion (Blackberry), where his daily job was performing security research and vulnerability assessments of RIM authored code, products and services including infrastructure, devices, and QNX operating system.

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Travis Goodspeed

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Travis Goodspeed
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Travis Goodspeed is a circuit preacher and hardware hacker from Southern Appalachia. He created the GoodFET and Facedancer boards for embedded system and USB hacking. With some good neighbors at Dartmouth College, he created the Packet-in-Packet technique for remotely injecting PHY-layer packets remotely with neither a radio nor a software bug.

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Shay Chen

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Shay Chen
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Shay Chen is a security researcher and blogger who is the co-author of the platforms “Diviner” and “WAVSEP. He had multiple appearances in international conferences, including Blackhat, Hacktivity, AppSecUSA and others as a speaker.

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