whitehat

MLT

IRL Name: 
Matthew Telfer
Biography: 

Matthew Telfer aka MLT is a cybersecurity researcher, former grey hat computer hacker and former member of TeaMp0isoN. MLT was arrested in May 2012 in relation to his activities within TeaMp0isoN, a computer-hacking group which claimed responsibility for many high-profile attacks, including website vandalism of the United Nations, Facebook, NATO, BlackBerry, T-Mobile USA and several other large sites in addition to high-profile denial-of-service attacks and leaks of confidential data. After his arrest, he reformed his actions and shifted his focus to activities as a white hat cybersecurity specialist. He was the founder of now-defunct Project Insecurity LTD.

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Johnny Long

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Johnny Long
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Johnny Long is mostly known for the google hacking database and google hacking tutorials. He is the founder of hackers for charity, a non profit organizaton that helps bring technology to third world countries.

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Rel1k

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Dave Kennedy
Biography: 

Dave is the creator of the social engineering toolkit. Throughout his career he has worked on many projects, some of these include: Backtrack, the metasploit unleashed training course and one of the co-founders of derby con. He currently works as a Chief Information Security Officer and is responsible for the security posture of a pretty big network infrastructure that spans over 60 countries.

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Mubix

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Rob Fuller
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Rob has worked on many security projects including his own security site room362. He is currently working for Rapid 7 as a full time penetration tester for the company. For many years he has been a part of Hak 5 doing everything from running their open radio station to guest appearances on the show. On top of all of this he has also provided training and talks at many different security conferences.

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Jack Daniel

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Jack currently works as a product development manager for Tennable Network Security. He is famous for is immense knowledge of information security. His blogs focus on network security as it pertains to the end user experience. He is joined by other individuals from Tennable Sec.

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pipacs, PaX Team

Biography: 

Pipacs is an Hungarian hacker and the creator of PaX. Before working on PaX he has worked on a Windows based HIPS, with some of his friends.
Eventually they all dropped out, and pipacs continued his work for the Linux platform as the only member of the "PaX Team".
PaX was first released in 2000, for free.

He has lost his interest in computer security but has been into computers since the early 80's.
He started with Z-80 assembly, and moved on through amiga (m68k) to x86 assembly.

Currently dedicates most of his time to grsecurity/PaX.

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m_nerva, cimx, rq42

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Marshal Webb
Biography: 

Marshal Webb was involved in the hacking of the game "Dues Ex" and was/is involved in countless other cybercrimes. He came to fame when he tried to snitch out LulzSec. They exposed his personal information via pastebin.

Information from LulzSec:
Name: Marshal Webb
Last known IP: cpe-174-101-240-242.cinci.res.rr.com (174.101.240.242)
Location: MARSH #336
1204 W Main St
Hamilton, Ohio 45013

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Richard W. Stevens

IRL Name: 
Richard W. Stevens
Biography: 

Richard Stevens was born in 1951 in Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), where his father worked for the copper industry. The family later moved to Salt Lake City, Hurley, New Mexico, Washington, D.C. and Phalaborwa, South Africa. Stevens attended Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro, Virginia. He received a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1973 and both a master's degree (in 1978) and PhD (in 1982) in Systems Engineering from the University of Arizona. He moved to Tucson in 1975 where he was employed at Kitt Peak National Observatory as a computer programmer until 1982. From 1982 until 1990 he was Vice President of Computing Services at Health Systems International in New Haven, Connecticut. Stevens moved back to Tucson in 1990 where he pursued his career as an author and consultant. He was also an avid pilot and a part-time flight instructor during the 1970s.

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Fred Cohen

IRL Name: 
Frederick B. Cohen
Biography: 

Fred Cohen is an American computer scientist best known for defining the term "computer virus" and for inventing most of the widely used computer virus defense techniques employed today. In 1983 he wrote one of the first computer viruses, a program for a parasitic application that seized control of computer operations. He was also the principal investigator in charge of the team that defined the information assurance problem as it relates to critical infrastructure protection, a seminal researcher in the use of deception for information protection, a leader in advancing the science of digital forensic evidence examination, an information protection consultant and security industry analyst.

In the 70's and 80's he designed network protocols for secure digital networks carrying voice, video, and data, helped develop and prototype the electronic cashwatch for implementing personal digital money systems and developed integrity mechanisms for secure operating systems. In 1989 he won the international Information Technology Award for his work on integrity protection. In the 1990's, he developed protection testing systems and audit techniques, secure Internet servers, defensive information warfare systems and techniques, early systems using deception for information protection, and bootable CDs designed for forensics and secure server applications.

The protection techniques pioneered by Cohen now help to defend more than three quarters of all the computers in the world. He is currently the President of California Sciences Institute, a graduate non-profit educational institution focused on national security and advanced investigations and continues to be CEO of Fred Cohen & Associates, an information protection consulting firm.

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Aleph One

IRL Name: 
Elias Levy
Biography: 

Elias Levy, aka Aleph One, was the moderator of the mailing list Bugtraq from May, 1996 until he stepped down in October, 2001. Through BugTraq, Levy has helped educate countless system administrators, network engineers and developers across the planet, and helped changed the way an entire industry does business in regards to bugs and vendor response.

In addition to his work with Bugtraq, he was also the CTO and co-founder of SecurityFocus, and author of "Smashing The Stack For Fun and Profit"which was published in Phrack Magazine issue #49. "Smashing The Stack" was the first high-quality, step-by-step introduction to stack buffer overflow vulnerabilities and exploitation, sparking numerous attacks and defenses against them.

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