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Creator of ARPANET

He wrote the math library, the program "crypt", and the password encryption used for user authentication for the early versions of UNIX.

Markus Hess, a German citizen, was a computer prodigy and particularly effective hacker. Hess was recruited by the KGB to be an international spy with the objective of securing U.S. military information for the Soviets. Alongside fellow hackers Dirk Brzezinski and Peter Carl, Hess hacked into networks of military and industrial computers based in the United States, Europe and East Asia, and sold the information to the Soviet KGB for US$54,000. During his time working for the KGB, Hess is estimated to have broken into 400 U.S. military computers. The hacked material included "sensitive semiconductor, satellite, space, and aircraft technologies".

Marcus J. Ranum is a ninja on security system design and implementation. He is recognized as an early innovator in firewall technology, and the implementor of the first commercial firewall product. Since the late 1980's, he has designed a number of groundbreaking security products including the DEC SEAL, the TIS firewall toolkit, the Gauntlet firewall, and NFR's Network Flight Recorder intrusion detection system. He has been involved in every level of operations of a security product business, from developer, to founder and CEO of NFR. Marcus has served as a consultant to many FORTUNE 500 firms and national governments, as well as serving as a guest lecturer and instructor at numerous high-tech conferences. In 2001, he was awarded the TISC "Clue" award for service to the security community, and the ISSA Lifetime Achievement Award. Marcus is Chief Of Security for Tenable Security, Inc., where he is responsible for research in open source logging tools, and product training. He serves as a technology advisor to a number of start-ups, established concerns, and venture capital groups.

Marc Maiffret was the co-founder of eEye Digital Security, along with Firas Bushnaq, and until recently was the CTO of BeyondTrust. Marc's efforts have been focused upon product development and vulnerability research since the company's inception in 1998. During his tenure at eEye, and later at BeyondTrust, he discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows operating system. In 2001, he discovered the Code Red computer worm. Marc left eEye in September 2007 to pursue a new venture in mobile software.

"Marc Ewing is the creator and originator of the Red Hat brand of software, most notably the Red Hat range of Linux operating system distributions. He was involved in the 86open project in the mid-90s."

"As a computer science student at Carnegie Mellon, Marc was known for helping other students with their computer problems. He usually wore his grandfather’s red Cornell lacrosse cap, so if you went to the lab and needed help, people would tell you, “Hey, look for the guy in the red hat, he will help you. He knows what he’s doing, he’s helpful, and he’s nice.”

He currently is involved in philanthropy.

Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in Cedar Falls, Iowa and raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, United States) is a multi-millionaire software engineer and Silicon Valley "whiz kid" entrepreneur best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation. He was the chair of Opsware, a software company he founded originally as Loudcloud, when it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. He is also a cofounder of Ning, a company which provides a platform for social-networking websites. Andreessen is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, having started 2 successful companies and working on Ning, his third venture.

Mandy Andress is a well known author of books aimed at helping people study for various cyber security certification exams such as CISSP. She is also the founder and president of ArcSec Technologies. Mandy has written numerous security product and technology reviews for InfoWorld magazine and other publications including Information Security Magazine, Network World, Federal Computer Week, Internet Security Advisor, and IBM DeveloperWorks. She is also a frequent presenter at conferences, including Networld+Interop, BlackHat, SANS, and TISC.

Linus Benedict Torvalds pronunciation (born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel. Initially Torvalds wanted to call the kernel he developed Freax (a combination of "free", "freak", and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system), but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for downloading, named Torvalds' directory linux.

About 2% of the current Linux kernel is written by Torvalds himself. Since Linux has had thousands of contributors, such a percentage represents a significant personal contribution to the overall amount of code. Torvalds remains the ultimate authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel.

Some say he is not really a hacker...

Dr. Kleinrock is a computer scientist, and a professor of computer science at UCLA. His most well-known and significant work is his early work on queueing theory, which has applications in many fields, among them as a key mathematical background to packet switching, the basic technology behind the Internet. His initial contribution to this field was his doctoral thesis in 1962, published in book form in 1964; he later published several of the standard works on the subject.

From his Internet Hall of Fame Entry:

"Dr. Leonard Kleinrock pioneered the mathematical theory of packet networks, the technology underpinning the Internet. For his enormous contribution to understanding the power of packet networks he was honored with the Charles Stark Draper Award as one of the fathers of the Internet, along with Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn, and Larry Roberts. He is a developer of ARPANET, the seedling that grew into today’s global Internet, and his laboratory’s UCLA Host computer became the first ARPANET node in September 1969. A month later, he directed the first transmission to pass over the blossoming network. "