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Travis Phillips is a security blogger who is the owner of theunl33t.blogspot.com that contains information security articles, pentesting articles and his shell scripts.

Azim Poonawala is an Indian national who is the owner and founder of Closed Circuit Corporate Clandestine, multifarious research and action cartel comprising of veterans who are blue-ribbon bearers in their own fields and expertise in specific areas doing legitimate, covert and overt, information security assignments not only for companies in Mumbai and the surrounding areas, but also for international clients. He has has worked for companies like Hewlett Packard, Mahindra and Mahindra, the Bombay Stock Exchange, Perimeter USA and clients from the U.S. financial industry to the U.S. Government.

Keatron Evans is an American Information Security trainer. He is regularly engaged in training and consulting for members of the United States intelligence community, military, and federal law enforcement agencies and specializes in penetration testing and digital forensics.

Mohammad Ahmadi Bidakhvidi is a mechanical engineer and currently studying civil engineering in Brussels, Belgium. He has a great passion for Science and Math. He have always been interested in computer science and so he decided to learn various programming computer languages in his free time. He can code C/C++, C#, Visual Basic, Delphi, VBscript, mIRC script and others. He is also a freelance software developer.

Patrick Volkerding is a software engineer who was born on October 20, 1966 and is known as the founder and maintainer of Slackware Linux distro. Volkerding is a SubGenius affiliate or member. The use of the word Slack in "Slackware" is a homage to J. R. "Bob" Dobbs: "I'll admit that it was SubGenius inspired. In fact, back in the 2.0 through 3.0 days we used to print a dobbshead on each CD." He enjoys working with Linux, and have had a blast making a complete package like Slackware available and easy enough for beginners to install.

Jordan Ritter is a software architect and technical entrepreneur from San Francisco Bay Area. Currently he is the Founder and CTO of Servio and has previously worked as CTO of Zivity. Before Zivity, he was appointed CTO of Columbia Music Entertainment, heading the R&D division to revamp organization-wide processes and infrastructure while building their next digital music distribution system. As Founder and CTO of Cloudmark, he built products and services that today filter 18% of all Internet email traffic. He is the developer of ngrep, a pcap-aware tool that will allow you to specify extended regular or hexadecimal expressions to match against data payloads of packets. It currently recognizes IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, ICMPv4/6, IGMP and Raw across Ethernet, PPP, SLIP, FDDI, Token Ring and null interfaces, and understands BPF filter logic in the same fashion as more common packet sniffing tools, such as tcpdump and snoop.

Tobias Klein is a German Security Adventist and bug hunter who likes to publish his own security advisories, writings, tools and research projects in his website at www.trapkit.de. He works at NESO Security Labs. He is also known for publishing Information Security books like 'A Bug Hunter's Diary' , 'Aus dem Tagebuch eines Bughunters', 'Buffer Overflows und Format-String-Schwachstellen', and 'Linux-Sicherheit'. His tool 'checksec.sh' is featured here in SoldierX under the Tools Section. checksec.sh is a tool for quickly surveying the mitigation technologies in use by processes on a Linux system. The script also lists the status of various Linux kernel protection mechanisms.

David Solomon works in a pharmaceutical industry, developing and supporting Linux based servers, embedded devices and applications. He is the the Founder, CEO and Trademerk holder of andLinux which is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7; 32-bit versions only). andLinux uses coLinux as its core which is confusing for many people. coLinux is a port of the Linux kernel to Windows. Although this technology is a bit like running Linux in a virtual machine, coLinux differs itself by being more of a merger of Windows and the Linux kernel and not an emulated PC, making it more efficient. Xming is used as X server and PulseAudio as sound server.

Russ McRee is an American senior security analyst, researcher, and founder of holisticinfosec.org, where he advocates a holistic approach to the practice of information assurance. HolisticInfoSec.org is dedicated to sharing information security content and resources in an open, clear manner, with the hope of helping improve infosec for all who seek to do so. He is currently the manager of Microsoft Online Service’s Security Incident Management team, Russ is a frequent speaker at industry events or conferences like DEFCON, RSA, FIRST and RAID. He writes toolsmith, a monthly column for the ISSA Journal, and has written for numerous other publications including Information Security, (IN)SECURE, SysAdmin, Linux Magazine, and OWASP.

Jeremy frequently acts as a technical resource for other IT professionals through teaching and writing. Jeremy is also a contributing author to over a dozen technical books covering a variety of topics. He holds the certifications: Security+, CCNA, MCSE, MCP+I, and A+.