Hackers We Love

by Lisa Vaas

Here are our picks of some of the hackers—there are many more—whose work serves as a crucial security warning beacon for enterprises. They conduct their research in the face of threatened lawsuits and publish their results, ofte

Dinis Cruz, an evangelist with OWASP (The Open Web Application Security Project), focuses on Microsoft .Net security issues. Other security researchers note th

David Litchfield, Next-Generation Security Software co-founder, is the database bug hunter extraordinaire. Hes found hundreds of vulnerabilities in products, includin

Dave Maynor, CTO and co-founder of Errata Security, together with Jon Johnny Cache Ellch, has shown <A HREF=http://securitywatch.eweek.com/sniff_your_wirel

H.D. Moore, exploit writer and vulnerability researcher, built the open-source Metasploit Framework into a must-use penetration testing tool. His most-noted research als

Joanna Rutkowska is primarily known for her contributions to Windows Vista backdoor installation and hiding techniques.

Now chair of the OWASP Foundation as well as CEO of Aspect Security, Jeff Williams has worked on a number of projects at OWASP, including creating the OWASP Top 1

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