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Larry Ellison

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Larry Ellison
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Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison was born on August 17, 1944 in Bronx, New York. In 1977, Ellison and two of his Ampex colleagues, Robert Miner and Ed Oates, founded their own company, Software Development Labs. In 1979, the company was renamed Relational Software Inc., later renamed Oracle after the flagship product Oracle database. From the beginning, Ellison served as Chief Executive Officer. Ellison had come across a paper called "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks" by Edgar F. ("Ted") Codd, describing a concept Codd had developed at IBM. Codd's employers saw no commercial potential in the concept of a Structured Query Language (SQL), but Larry Ellison did.

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Joel Scambray

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Joel Scambray
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Joel Scambray is a Managing Principal at Cigital, a software security company founded in 1992. He has spoken on information security at forums including Black Hat, I-4, and The Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM), as well as organizations including CERT, The Computer Security Institute (CSI), ISSA, ISACA, SANS, private corporations, and government agencies, such as the Korean Information Security Agency (KISA), FBI, and the RCMP.

He co-founded and led strategic security consultancy Consciere from 2008 to its acquisition by Cigital in 2011. He has been a Senior Director at Microsoft Corporation, where he led Microsoft's online services security efforts for three years before joining the Windows platform and services division to focus on security technology architecture. He co-founded security software and services startup Foundstone Inc. and helped lead it to acquisition by McAfee for $86M.

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Claudio Agosti

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Claudio Agosti
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Claudio Agosti is an Italian free man whose goal is to stay in the “human right in digital environment”. He is the project leader of Sniffjoke.

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Nikhil Mittal

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Nikhil Mittal
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Nikhil Mittal is an Indian penetration tester who has created of multiple tools like Kautilya, a toolkit that makes it easy to use HIDs in penetration tests, Nishang, a post exploitation framework in PowerShell, Deploy-Deception a framework for deploying Active Directory deception and RACE toolkit for attacking Windows ACLs. He has spoken/trained at conferences like DEF CON, Black Hat, CanSecWest, BruCON, 44CON and more.

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Lavakumar Kuppan

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Lavakumar Kuppan
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Lavakumar Kuppan is an Indian penetration tester and a security researcher who is known for developing JS-Recon, a HTML5 based Network and Port Scanner. He is also one of the guys behind the Attack and Defense Labs.

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Sunny Vaghela

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Sunny Vaghela
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Sunny Vaghela is an Indian Cyber Crime Consultant who is the Director & Chief Technical Officer at TechDefence Consulting Pvt Ltd which is a security services & investigation consulting organization focusing on Cyber Crime Investigations,Cyber Law Consulting,Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing,Information Security Training. He also runs Certified Training program on Ethical Hacking, Cyber Crime Investigation,Cyber Forensics & Information Security at Ahmedabad and various centres across India. According to his bio, he has traced the origin of the Terror E-Mail Trail of the Ahmedabad Serial Bomb Blast Terror Mail Case and has played a vital role in investigation of the same. In the infamous 26/11 Mumbai Bombings, he successfully accomplished task of obtaining confidential information on the banned organization JAMAT ud DAWAH for MUMBAI Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS).

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Darmawan Salihun

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Darmawan Salihun
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Darmawan Salihun is an Indonesian security researcher who has been focusing on BIOS-related security research since 2002. He has published papers on BIOS reverse engineering, BIOS code injection techniques, BIOS hacking, Plug and Play BIOS, and PCI protocol exploitation in the CodeBreakers Journal.

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Ashish Mistry

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Ashish Mistry
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Ashish Mistry is an Information Security Researcher, IT Security Trainer ,Malware Researcher, Penetration tester, and Tools Developer from India. He is also the founder and owner of Hcon (http://www.hcon.in/).

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Eben Upton

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Eben Upton
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Eben Upton is the founder and trustee of the Raspberry Pi foundation, and is responsible for the overall software and hardware architecture of the Raspberry Pi device. In his day job, he works for Broadcom as an ASIC architect and general troublemaker.

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Pete Lomas

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Pete Lomas
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Pete Lomas received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science(engineering) from the Victoria University of Manchester, UK. He is a co-founder and Director of Systems Engineering at Norcott, responsible for product and systems engineering development. Prior to founding Norcott, Pete was the Director of Engineering of Mosaic Technology Limited, an electronic design consultancy based in Manchester. Over a ten year period Mosaic grew to become a multi-million pound company, prior to its sale in 1997.

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