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Adam Gowdiak

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Adam Gowdiak
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Adam Gowdiak is the CEO and Founder of Security Explorations, a company based in Poland that discovered a lot critical security hole in Oracle's Java SE software and developed a proof of concept exploit for it which permits complete Java security sandbox bypass. He received M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Poznan University of Technology. Prior to founding Security Explorations, he had been working for Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and Sun Microsystems Laboratories. For over 8 years, he had been also an active member of a Polish security research group called LSD.

He is a known Java Virtual Machine hacker, with over 50 security issues uncovered in the Java technology over the recent years.

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Dmitry Sklyarov

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Dmitry Vitalevich Sklyarov
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Dmitry Vitalevich Sklyarov is a Russian computer programmer and crypto expert who created "The Advanced eBook Processor" (AEBR) software - a program that cracks the encryption protection on Adobe's eBook format, converting it to Adobe PDF format. He created the program for his employer : ElcomSoft. On July 16, 2001, due to a complaint from Adobe Systems, a US company, that copy protection arrangements in its e-book file format were being violated by ElcomSoft's product, Sklyarov was arrested after giving a presentation called "eBook's Security - Theory and Practice" at the DEF CON convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sklyarov and his employer, ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. of Moscow, were charged with releasing a program that let readers disable restrictions on Adobe's electronic-book software.

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Robin David

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Robin David
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Robin David is the main author of androrat, a Remote Administration Tool for Android.

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Mark Shuttleworth

IRL Name: 
Mark Richard Shuttleworth
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Mark Richard Shuttleworth is a South African entrepreneur, philanthropist, and space tourist who is the founder of Ubuntu Linux and Canonical Ltd. He is known as the first South African in space. In the 1990s, Shuttleworth participated as one of the developers of the Debian operating system.

Mark founded Thawte, a company specialising in digital certificates and cryptography. When Thawte was acquired in 1999 by VeriSign, and he founded HBD, an investment company, and setup the Shuttleworth Foundation, which funds innovative change in society by supporting Fellows and investing in their projects.

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Nex

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Claudio Guarnieri
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Claudio Guarnieri is a security researcher who is the creator and lead developer of Cuckoo Sandbox, a malware analysis system. He also maintains the website of malwr.com - another free malware analysis service and built on top Cuckoo Sandbox. He has spoken at various security conferences like HITB.

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lcashdol

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Larry W. Cashdollar
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Larry W. Cashdollar a.k.a lcashdol is an American vulnerability researcher and exploit coder who used to conduct penetration tests with SATAN & telnet. His security disclosures and exploits can be found at Packet Storm, Exploit-DB, vapid.dhs.org/exploits, etc.

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vl4dZ

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vl4dZ is a system administrator who is into security and coding (Bash & C). He has written tools like Assh: The Anonymous Secure SHell, Fsnoop, GUChaos, Pwd-hash, and other useful sec tools.

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madirish2600, Mad Irish

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Justin C. Klein Keane
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Justin C. Klein Keane a.k.a madirish2600 is a security researcher who is the developer of Lampsecurity, a series of vulnerable virtual machine images along with complementary documentation designed to teach linux,apache,php,mysql security.

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The Grugq

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The Grugq is an Information Security Professional who has has worked with digital forensic analysis, binary reverse engineering, rootkits, Voice over IP, telecommunications and financial security. He has reported to be an exploit broker for 15% of the sale. Last but not least, he has also spoken at various security conferences.

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carnal0wnage

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Chris Gates
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Chris Gates a.k.a carnal0wnage is a penetration tester and security blogger who maintains carnal0wnage.attackresearch.com. He has written a lot of security papers, articles, and has spoken at various hacker and information security conferences.

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