taviso

IRL Name:

Tavis Ormandy

Biography:

He is currently employed by Google as part of their Project Zero team. Originally from England, but currently living in Switzerland. Main interests are computing related, participates in several open source projects and enjoy security research. He has discovered major vulnerabilities in a plethora of software - including Microsoft Windows, Sophos Antivirus, Comodo Antivirus, Libtiff, Trend Micro Antivirus, Glibc, and FireEye systems.

Facts

Actively posts tutorials as well as PoC

Publically posted Microsoft Vulnerabilties while working at Google because he felt Microsoft was not taking his advisories seriously

Has disclosed vulnerabilities like RCE in major antivirus products

Rumors

Loves Antivirus

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