2007年国外信息安全界59位牛人(续二)
41. Kevin Mitnick
Mitnick is a ex-convict, having served time for crimes involving his black hat hacking activities including identity theft, phone phreaking and social engineering. Since his release from prison, Mitnick has donned a white hat and started his own security firm, Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC.
42. Tsutomu Shimomura
Tsutomu Shimomura is a computer security expert who gained fame when he, together with computer journalist John Markoff, tracked down and helped the FBI arrest hacker Kevin Mitnick. "Takedown," his 1996 book on the subject, was later adapted for the screen in Takedown.
43. Solar Designer
Alexander Peslyak (aka Solar Designer) is a Russian security expert know for his exploitation techniques and security audit tools. He is the founder of the Openwall Project, which has designed a security rich operating system for servers.
44. Michal Zalewski
A Polish born security expert, Zalewski has been white hat hacking since the mid 1990s, when he started posting on BugTraq. He has written software for Unix systems and recently wrote a book, "Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks."
45. Kevin Poulsen
Wired News editor/blogger and former hacker, Poulen wrote a wrote a 1,000 line Perl script that checked MySpace for registered sex offenders. Sifting through the results, he manually confirmed over 700 offenders, including a serial child molester in New York actively trying to hook up with underage boys on the site, and who has now been arrested as a result. MySpace told Congress that it didn't have this capability. The script is now available for free.
46. H.D. Moore
Moore founded the Metasploit Project in 2003, which helps white hat hackers who perform penetration testing and exploit research. The Metasploit Framework, a product of the project, helps security developers test exploit code.
47. David Maynor
Maynor is a senior researcher at SecureWorks where his duties include vulnerability development, developing and evaluating new evasion techniques, and development of protection for customers. In 2006, he demonstrated how to hack into Apple’s MacBook via a weakness in the laptop’s wireless internet connection. He also blogs about security at http://erratasec.blogspot.com/
48. SANS Internet Storm Center
Today the Internet Storm Center gathers millions of intrusion detection log entries every day, from sensors covering over 500,000 IP addresses in over 50 countries. The ISC was created in 2001 following the successful detection, analysis, and widespread warning of the Li0n worm. Today, the ISC provides a free analysis and warning service to thousands of Internet users and organizations, and is actively working with internet service providers to fight back against the most malicious attackers.
THE DOT GOVS AND DOT MILS
49. John G. Grimes
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration, and Department of Defense, Chief Information Officer
John Grimes was nominated by President Bush for the position of assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration (ASD NII) / Department of Defense chief information officer (CIO) - perhaps one of the few Bush appointees with actual experience in his appointed position, yet who also donated $2,100 between 2003 and 2004 to a PAC operated by Raytheon, an American weapons manufacturer, whose PAC contributes to campaigns of both parties.
41. Kevin Mitnick
Mitnick is a ex-convict, having served time for crimes involving his black hat hacking activities including identity theft, phone phreaking and social engineering. Since his release from prison, Mitnick has donned a white hat and started his own security firm, Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC.
42. Tsutomu Shimomura
Tsutomu Shimomura is a computer security expert who gained fame when he, together with computer journalist John Markoff, tracked down and helped the FBI arrest hacker Kevin Mitnick. "Takedown," his 1996 book on the subject, was later adapted for the screen in Takedown.
43. Solar Designer
Alexander Peslyak (aka Solar Designer) is a Russian security expert know for his exploitation techniques and security audit tools. He is the founder of the Openwall Project, which has designed a security rich operating system for servers.
44. Michal Zalewski
A Polish born security expert, Zalewski has been white hat hacking since the mid 1990s, when he started posting on BugTraq. He has written software for Unix systems and recently wrote a book, "Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks."
45. Kevin Poulsen
Wired News editor/blogger and former hacker, Poulen wrote a wrote a 1,000 line Perl script that checked MySpace for registered sex offenders. Sifting through the results, he manually confirmed over 700 offenders, including a serial child molester in New York actively trying to hook up with underage boys on the site, and who has now been arrested as a result. MySpace told Congress that it didn't have this capability. The script is now available for free.
46. H.D. Moore
Moore founded the Metasploit Project in 2003, which helps white hat hackers who perform penetration testing and exploit research. The Metasploit Framework, a product of the project, helps security developers test exploit code.
47. David Maynor
Maynor is a senior researcher at SecureWorks where his duties include vulnerability development, developing and evaluating new evasion techniques, and development of protection for customers. In 2006, he demonstrated how to hack into Apple’s MacBook via a weakness in the laptop’s wireless internet connection. He also blogs about security at http://erratasec.blogspot.com/
48. SANS Internet Storm Center
Today the Internet Storm Center gathers millions of intrusion detection log entries every day, from sensors covering over 500,000 IP addresses in over 50 countries. The ISC was created in 2001 following the successful detection, analysis, and widespread warning of the Li0n worm. Today, the ISC provides a free analysis and warning service to thousands of Internet users and organizations, and is actively working with internet service providers to fight back against the most malicious attackers.
THE DOT GOVS AND DOT MILS
49. John G. Grimes
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration, and Department of Defense, Chief Information Officer
John Grimes was nominated by President Bush for the position of assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration (ASD NII) / Department of Defense chief information officer (CIO) - perhaps one of the few Bush appointees with actual experience in his appointed position, yet who also donated $2,100 between 2003 and 2004 to a PAC operated by Raytheon, an American weapons manufacturer, whose PAC contributes to campaigns of both parties.