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Patrick Wardle

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Patrick Wardle
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Patrick Wardle is the founder of Objective-See. Having worked at NASA and the NSA, and as well as presented at many security conferences, he is intimately familiar with aliens, spies, and talking nerdy. Currently, Patrick's focus is on automated vulnerability discovery, and the emerging threats of OS X and mobile malware.

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5A1F

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Saif El-Sherei
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Saif has a keen interest in exploit development and sharing everything he learns. Over the years he has released several exploitation tutorials, examples and a grammar-based browser fuzzer, wadi (Defcon 23).

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arma, Roger Dingledine

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Roger Dingledine
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Roger Dingledine a.k.a arma is an MIT-trained American computer scientist known for having co-founded the Tor Project. He created Tor together with Nick Mathewson and Paul Syverson under a contract from the United States Naval Research Laboratory.

Dingledine has drawn attention after the leak of NSA documents by Edward Snowden, and public disclosure of the rules guiding the operation of XKeyscore, the NSA's collection system, given XKeyscore's targeting of Tor Project onion servers, including the one Dingledine runs at MIT, which serves a directory authority for the system, as well as being the base of operation of the MixMinion mail service, and host to various gaming and other websites (from which the NSA might be collecting IP addresses).

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Scott Behrens

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Scott Behrens
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Scott Behrens is a senior security engineer and ambassador of application security at Netflix. Prior to Netflix, he worked as a senior security consultant at Neohapsis and an adjunct professor at DePaul University. Scott is into application security, security automation, and penetration testing. An avid coder and researcher, he has contributed to a number of open source tools for both attack and defense.

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MalwareTech

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Marcus Hutchins
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Marcus Hutchins is a British security researcher who has been credited with stopping the WannaCry ransomware attack's spread from a small bedroom in his parents' house. The Telegraph reports that he lives in a seaside resort on the north Devon coast. He is now working (as of this writing) with the government's National Cyber Security Centre to prevent a new strain of the malicious software from emerging on Monday - but says he has no plans to leave his current job at US-based 'private intel threat firm' Kryptos Logic.

Although his bosses have rewarded him with an all-expenses paid trip to Los Angeles for his valiant efforts, Hutchins thinks he could face future revenge from the hackers he has exposed after his name was posted on the internet.

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mongo

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mongo is a security researcher and bug hunter who has been knocking good and critical bugs in bug bounty programs specially in Bugcrowd. His background is a developer but has always been interested in security and low-level programming. He usually hunt for P1 (Critical) bugs like XXE or RCE issues. As of this writing he is currently the top 1 bug hunter in Bugcrowd based on the leaderboard.

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Marc Ochsenmeier

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Marc Ochsenmeier
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Marc Ochsenmeier is a German malware analyst who used to worked as software developer with a focus on Windows hardening and security assessment. He has also presented at Blackhat Arsenal.

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Timur Yunusov

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Timur Yunusov
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Timur Yunusov is a Russian security researcher who is skilled in Banking systems security and author of multiple researches in field of application security including "Bruteforce of PHPSESSID", rated in Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques of 2012 by WhiteHat Security and "XML Out-Of-Band" showed at the BlackHat EU 2013. Professional application security researcher.

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Saumil Shah

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Saumil Shah
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Saumil Shah is a veteran Black Hat instructor and the founder of Net Square. Saumil is a known speaker and instructor, having regularly presented at conferences like Black Hat, RSA, CanSecWest, 44CON, Hack.lu, Hack-In-The-Box, NoSuchCon, REcon, and others. Saumil has been the co-developer of the "Exploit Laboratory" courses that he teaches all over the world. Saumil graduated with an M.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University and a B.E. in Computer Engineering from Gujarat University.

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Josh Pitts

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Josh Pitts
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Josh Pitts (@midnite_runr in Twitter) is the guy who wrote the Backdoor Factory and BDFProxy. He works as pentester and reverse engineer. He began his IT career while serving the Marines working in Signals Intelligence and IT security in the mid to late 90's.

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