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Nikolai Durov

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Nikolai Durov
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Nikolai Durov is a Russian programmer and mathematician. He is the elder brother of Pavel Durov, with whom he founded the social networking site VK and later Telegram.

Durov introduced commutative algebraic monads as a generalization of local objects in a generalized algebraic geometry. Versions of a tropical geometry, of an absolute geometry over a field with one element and an algebraic analogue of Arakelov geometry were realized in this setup.

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Natasha Grigori

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Grigori started her career as a hacker in the 1980s but she did not receive fame until the early 1990s with a bulletin-board website for amateur programmers and hackers. With this site, she helped others share, release, and hack various forms of software.

In the late 1990s, she founded antichildporn.org, also known as ACPO and Anti-Child Porn Organization and started working against child-pornography. This website has become one of the biggest campaigners against online child pornography and countless hackers utilize techniques learned from Grigori to help law enforcement agencies find and prosecute distributors.

Unfortunately, Grigori died of severe illness in November 2005, but ACPO has been left behind as a viable and effective organization that continues to operate today.

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fumik0, fumko, Fumi

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fumik0 / fumko is a reverse engineer or malware analyst responsible for the Haruko Malware Tracker. He is into analyzing and understanding malware with a bunch of chiptunes tracks & demo videos and then publishes some of his analysis in his blog at https://fumik0.com/.

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Peter Norton

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Peter Norton
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Peter Norton (born November 14, 1943) is an American programmer, software publisher, author, and philanthropist. He is best known for the computer programs and books that bear his name and portrait. Norton sold his PC software business to Symantec Corporation in 1990. His earliest low-level system utilities were designed to allow mainframe programmers access to a block of RAM that IBM normally reserved for diagnostics. This foreshadowed his personal computer work, where he became known as a knowledgeable author of low-level system utilities and reference books.

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Alexis Lingad

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Alexis Lingad
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Alexis Lingad aka "Batman of the Philippines" is a cyber security influencer and infosec charlatan from the Philippines. He is the founder of Cryptors and claims he have left the company already. He was the champion of the 2015 and 2017 Philippine Hacker Games at What The Hack which is organized by Global Knowledge Philippines but really this is not something to brag about because What The Hack sucks and is an infamous infosec con in the Philippines.

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Nafiez

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Nafiez (@zeifan) is an independent security researcher, enthusiast with memory corruption and found dozens of security vulnerabilities in various applications from open to closed source. He has passion in vulnerability research, fuzzing and reverse engineering. Occasionally blog about his security findings in http://zeifan.my. Nafiez has been part of HITB organizing international Capture The Flag (CTF) events and local (Malaysia) CTF, Wargames.MY.

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Ian Beer

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Ian Beer
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Ian Beer is a British computer security expert, white hat hacker, and a member of Google's Project Zero. There are those who consider him as one of the best iOS hackers. Beer was the first security expert to publish his findings under the "Project Zero" name in the spring of 2014; at this time, the project was not yet revealed and crediting the newly discovered vulnerabilities to it led to some speculation.

He is known for discovering a large number of security vulnerabilities in Apple products, including iOS, Safari and macOS, as well as helping create jailbreaks for iOS versions.One such discovery forced Apple to rewrite significant parts of the macOS and iOS kernel. Beer is also a vocal critic of Apple concerning its bug bounty program for iOS announced in 2016. The invite only program has been accused of low payouts. Beer has also criticized the company for not disclosing to its users why updates that fix the bugs should be installed.

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Nishant Sharma

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Nishant Sharma
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Nishant Sharma led the development of multiple gadgets for WiFi pentesting such as WiMonitor, WiNX and WiMini. He has presented research and conducted workshops at Blackhat USA/Asia, DEF CON China, HITB, RootCon, Packet Hacking Village, Wireless Village, IoT village, and Demo labs (DEFCON USA). He formerly worked as a firmware developer at Mojo Networks where he contributed in developing new features for the enterprise-grade WiFi APs and maintaining the state of art WiFi Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS). He has a Master degree in Information Security from IIIT Delhi.

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Taher Elgamal

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Taher Elgamal
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Taher Elgamal, widely known as the father of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), is a world-renowned Egyptian-American cryptographer. In addition to being the driving force behind SSL, the technology used to secure web browsing online, his work is also used as the basis for Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) adopted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as the Digital Signature Standard (DSS). He is a recipient of the RSA Conference 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award and received The 2019 Marconi Prize with Paul Kocher.

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Ivan Novikov

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Ivan Novikov
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Ivan Novikov is the inventor of memcached injection and SSRF exploit class as well as a recipient of bounty awards from Google, Facebook, and others.

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