It's never easy to come up with a definitive list of IT professionals with the most influence on the way we secure desktops, networks and mobile devices. And limiting the list to 15 hackers is a near-impossible task, but, in my mind, these are the folks who stand out today as stirring the imagination and forcing us to rethink our approach to security in an always-on world.
The 15 Most Influential People in Security Today - '8. Dino Dai Zovi' (
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Where the "Month of Apple Bugs" exposed Mac OS X security holes in a theoretical way, New York-based researcher Dino Dai Zovi took it a step further, launching a remote code execution attack against a fully patched MacBook Pro as part of a contest at the CanSecWest security conference. Dai Zovi's attack confirmed for many that malware-delivery attacks against Apple's OS are a reality.
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- The 15 Most Influential People in Security Today
- '1. Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team'
- '2. Ivan Krstic, One Laptop Per Child'
- '3. Chris Paget, IOActive'
- '4. Bunnie Huang, Bunnie Studios'
- '5. Michal Zalewski, Google'
- '6. Window Snyder'
- '7. The MOAB Hackers'
- '8. Dino Dai Zovi'
- '9. Michael Howard, Microsoft'
- '10. HD Moore, Metasploit '
- '11. Dave Aitel, Immunity'
- '12. Bronwen Matthews, Microsoft'
- '13. John Pescatore, Gartner'
- '14. Rob Thomas and Team Cymru'
- '15. Stefan Esser, Hardened PHP Project'
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