Francisco Alonso

Francisco Alonso. A.k.a. Reverse Skills. Security researcher from Spain, 26 years old. http://twitter.com/revskills reverseskills@gmail.com

Ali Hadi  

Dr. Ali Hadi is a Security Researcher, Consultant, and an Associate Professor. Holds a Ph.D. degree and MS.c. degree in Computer Information Systems (CIS), and a BS.c. degree in Computer Science. Through his technical career working in the security field for different large companies with more than six years, and more than 14 years of experiance as the whole in the IT sector. Throughout his working career he managed to gain a couple of well known technical certificates such as: OSCP, ECSA, CEH, CNI, CLP10, CLA10, CLDA, IBM Certified Specialist – System p Administration, Novell Linux Specialist, and RHCE.

Marco Balduzzi

Dr. Marco Balduzzi holds an MSc. in computer engineering from the University of Bergamo and a Ph.D. in applied computer security from Télécom ParisTech. He has been involved in IT-security for more then 8 years with international experiences in both industrial and academic fields. He worked as security consultant and engineer for different companies in Milan, Munich and Sophia-Antipolis, in south France, before joining the International Secure Systems Lab. He attended well-known and high-profile conferences all over like BlackHat, Hack in the Box and Owasp AppSec, and currently speaks five languages. Being a free software sympathizer, in the year 2K he co-founded the Bergamo Linux User Group and then the Laboratory of Applied Computing of his university. In former times he was also member of different Italian hacking groups and maintainer of several open-source projects.

Richard C. Batka

Richard C. Batka has held various management and engineering positions with Microsoft, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Symantec, Thomson Reuters, and JPMorgan Chase. He is devoted to the complex issues of enterprise strategy, application development, security, infrastructure, data management and regulatory compliance. A graduate of New York University (w/ honors) he holds numerous industry certifications. Mr. Batka can be reached at rbusa1@gmail.com.

Michel Barbeau

Michel Barbeau is a professor of Computer Science. He got a Bachelor, a Master’s and a Ph.D., in Computer Science, from Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada (’85), for undergraduate studies, and Universite de Montreal, Canada (’87 & ’91), for graduate studies. From ’91 to ’99, he was a professor at Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada. Since 2000, he works at Carleton University, Canada. He focuses his efforts on network and wireless security, vehicular communications, wireless access network management, ad hoc networks and RFID.

Nick Baronian

With a degree in Fine Arts, Nick currently works as a Senior Security Engineer for a large organization in the United States.  He mainly specializes in forensics but will dabble in the occasional penetration test whenever he can.  When not spending time with his family, Nick tries to stay active with many open source projects and security communities.

Jeremiah Brott

Jeremiah currently holds a lead role with Access2Networks Toronto as an Information Security Consultant. In addition to holding numerous certifications, Jeremiah is also the professor for Malicious Code – Design & Defense along with Ethical Hacking at Sheridan Institute for the Applied Information Sciences System Security degree program. Hacker’s do it with all sorts of characters… www.IHackedThisBox.com

Yury Chemerkin

Graduated at Russian State University for the Humanities (http://rggu.com/) in 2010. At present postgraduate at RSUH.
Information Security Researcher since 2009 and currently works as mobile and social infosecurity researcher in Moscow.
Experienced in Reverse Engineering, Software Programming, Cyber & Mobile Security Researching, Documentation, Security Writing as regular contributing. Now researchingCloud Security and Social Privacy.. E-mail: yury.chemerkin@gmail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/yury.chemerkin
LinkedIn: http://ru.linkedin.com/pub/yury-chemerkin/2a/434/549

Swetha Dabbara

She is a graduate in Computer Science and Engineering with a work experience of about 3 years in IT Sector. Holding a Diploma in Information Security and Ethical Hacking, she working as a freelance writer for Triond and Wikinut Website since the year 2010.

Dhawal Desai

He’s been in IT Security for almost 7 years now, working on web malware analysis and threat identification as a Chief Architect for development and implementation of solutions for organizations. Has also been working on mobile malwares for almost more than a year across various platforms.

Daniel Drozdzewski

Daniel Drozdzewski was born in Poland. First computer,bought in early 90’s with his older brother, was a Commodore64. Fascination with technology has led him to finishing technical college (electronics and computing), followed by 4 out of 5 years of Software Engineering MEng course at Wroclaw University of Technology. He transferred his studies to UK, where he finished Computing Science MSc course at Newcastle University. He then worked as R&D programmer for HP Labs, followed by Java developer role at Erudine, Java mobile and Android developer at Palringo and currently software developer at William Hill. He is also one of the founding fathers of Agile Yorkshire – grassroot geekery meetup focused on Agile and Lean techniques of software development and project management.

Julian Evans

Julian Evans is an internet security entrepreneur and Managing Director of education and awareness company ID Theft Protect (IDTP). IDTP leads the way in providing identity protection solutions to consumers and also works with large corporate companies on business strategy within the sector on a worldwide basis. Julian is a leading global information security and identity fraud expert who is referenced by many leading industry publications.

Abhijeet Hatekar

Abhijeet Hatekar works as a Security Analyst II in Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd. He is an author of open source VoIP security tools including OAT, VideoJak and XTest. Abhijeet enjoys Reversing Malwares, writing security tools in his free time. Currently he is focusing on writing IDS signatures and can be reached at Abhijeet@chackraview.net

Michael R. Heinzl

Michael R. Heinzl is engaged with it-security and related areas for some years, especially with penetration testing and reverse code engineering. Contact is possible through http://awesec.com or through the Austrian security website https://defense.at

Mervyn Heng

Mervyn Heng, CISSP, loves Information Security and Open Source. These interests are translated into his life in Singapore where he practises the 2 philosophies and attempts to transfer these passions to his friends through awareness. If you have any comments or queries, please contact him at commandrine@gmail.com.

Rich Hoggan

Rich Hoggan is currently pursuing a bachelors degree in Computer Science and plans on specializing in information and cyber security. In his spare time, Rich enjoys writing music, photography, and creating visual art with the Processing programming language.

Tim Kulp

Tim Kulp (CISSP, CEH) is an Information Security professional in Baltimore, MD. He specializes in secure software development and penetration testing web applications. In recent years Tim’s focus has been working with development teams on updating applications to utilize secure coding practices and studying the security impact of Social Media.

Nilesh Kumar

Nilesh Kumar is working as an Senior Engineer-Security Analyst with Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab, Bangalore, India. He is mainly focused on Application Security ranging from Code Review to Black Box Testing. Apart from that he shows interest in Network Security and Reverse Engineering.  Blog: nileshkumar83.blogspot.com

Ric Messier

Ric Messier is a security and networking professional who spent a lot of years working for large and small companies before starting up his own consulting business, WasHere Consulting (www.washere.com). Additionally, he teaches college at both the graduate and undergraduate level.

Wardell Motley Jr.

Wardell Motley is a Systems Administrator for a Large clothing Manufactures in Dallas Texas. He is a member of the ISSA and in his spare time works as freelance IT security researcher.

Rishi Narang

Rishi Narang is a Vulnerability R&D consultant working with Third Brigade Inc., a security software company specializing in host intrusion defense. Narang’s profile includes research on recent & zero day vulnerabilities, reverse engineering and IDS/IPS Signature Development. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, and has authored articles on recent advances in Information Security & Research. He has been a speaker in OWASP & private security trainings and can be reached through his personal blog Greyhat Insight (www.greyhat.in). The information and opinions expressed in this article are the personal opinions of Rishi Narang provided for informational purposes only.

Armando Romeo

Armando is the founder and lead author of eLearnSecurity. In his 15 years of experience in the field, Armando has been involved both in the research and in the solution development field for top level firms. He is a consultant and trainer and specializes in the Web Application Security field. Since the inception of the Hackers Center web portal at the age of 16, all the way to his current position as CEO of eLearnSecurity, his philosophy has always been: Learn. Practice. Share.

Wong Chon Kit

He is the security practitioner in Malaysia. He spend a lot of time in researching on security related issues and share with. On his free time, he mostly spend his time on playing his classical guitar. He has considerable experience in the IT industry in the arena of security with a cross platform knowledge in different type operating system. Hold academic major in Electrical & electronics as well as professional qualification – MCP, MCSA (2000), MCSE (2000,2003), MCTS, MCTIP Enterprise Administrator, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Redhat Certified Technician (RHCT), VMware Certified Professional(VCP) ,Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Security Analyst (ECSA) Certified Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI) & Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP). If you would like to have discussion, the author more than happy to hear your feedback and comment.

Craig Wright

Dr Craig Wright (GSE CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCE, GCFA, GLEG, GREM and GSPA ) is a lecturer and researcher at Charles Sturt University and executive vice –president (strategy) of CSCSS (Centre for Strategic Cyberspace+ Security Science) with a focus on collaborating government bodies in securing cyber systems. With over 20 years of IT related experience, he is a sought-after public speaker both locally and internationally, training Australian and international government departments in Cyber Warfare and Cyber Defence, while also presenting his latest research findings at academic conferences. Dr Wright also holds a Master’s degree in Statistics, and a Master’s Degree in Law specialising in International Commercial Law and is working on his second doctorate, a PhD on the Quantification of Information Systems Risk.

Rebecca Wynn

Rebecca Wynn, MBA, CISSP, LPT, CIWSA, NSA/CNSS NSTISSI 4011-4016 is a Senior Information Security Analyst with NCI Information Systems, Inc. She has been on the Editorial Advisory Board for Hakin9 magazine since 2008.

Rajdeep Chakraborty

Microsoft® MVP – Consumer Security (2009, 2010)

http://www.malwareinfo.org

http://in.linkedin.com/in/rajdeepchakraborty

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=62F27767-F7D0-448F-84C7-F28501B6ECC

Matt Davis

Matt Davis aka enferex, has played a software engineer by day, and hacker of software when the lights go down. He has been part of the 757Labs nerd-posse in the Hampton-Roads Virginia area since 2003 when he helped to start a local geek-gathering.

Didier Stevens

Didier Stevens is an IT Security professional specializing in application security and malware. Didier works for Contraste Europe NV. All his software tools are open source.

Antonio Fanelli

Electronics engineer since 1998 and is extremely keen about information technology and security. He currently works as a project manager for an Internet software house in Bari, Italy. E-mail: log2ins@gmail.com.

Matthew Jonkman

Matt is the founder of emergingthreats.net, the only open and community based intrusion detection ruleset, and is also president of the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). The OISF is building Suricata, an next generation ids funded by the US department of homeland security.

Daniel Lohin

Daniel Lohin currently works as a Information Security consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. Daniel Lohin is focused on incident detection as well as response. He is currently finishing up his Master’s in Information Security at George Mason University. When he is not studying, working or breaking his computer he is bike riding with his girlfriend, Meagan.

Antonio Merola

Antonio Merola is a security expert. He started his career 10 years ago; he used to work as consultant serving several company as Systems Administrator (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer). Since 2001 he has been involved in many aspects of perimeter security such as firewall, vpn, intrusion detection etc. as employee for Telecom Italia. Additional, as a freelancer, he serves several companies as consultant and instructor on a wide variety of security topics.Antonio, holds several certifications and is working towards to complete his University Degree in Informatics Engineer from Universita degli Studi di Napoli. He is a speaker on international security events and as author he published articles in several Italian magazines and has been collaborating with hakin9. His recent interests include honeypots, wireless security solutions and forensic analisys. Contact the author at a.merola@securityindepth.org

Aditya K Sood

Aditya K Sood is a Sr. Security Researcher at Vulnerability Research Labs (VRL), COSEINC. He been working in the security filed for the past 7 years. He is also running an independent security research arena, SecNiche Security. He is an active speaker at security conferences and already has spoken at EuSecWest, ExCaliburCon, Xcon, Troopers, Owasp, Xkungfoo, CERT-IN etc. He has written a number of whitepapers for Hakin9, Usenix, Elsevier and BCS. He has released a number of advisories to forefront companies. Besides his normal job routine he loves to do a lot of web based research and designing of cutting edge attack vectors.

Thomas Wilhelm

Thomas Wilhelm has been in involved in Information Security since 1990, where he served in the Army for eight years as a Signals Intelligence Analyst / Russian Linguist / Cryptanalyst. A speaker at security conferences across the U.S., including DefCon, HOPE, and CSI, he has been employed by Fortune 100 companies to conduct Risk Assessments, participate and lead in external and internal Penetration Testing efforts, and manage Information Systems Security projects. He currently designs and conducts Hacker training courses and certification boot camps through Heorot.net.

Thomas is also a Doctoral student who holds Masters degrees in both Computer Science and Management. Additionally, he also dedicates some of his time as an Associate Professor at Colorado Technical University, and has contributed to multiple publications, including both magazines and books. His latest contribution was multiple chapters in the Syngress publication titled “Professional Penetration Testing,” released in August, 2009, which was his fourth book contribution to Syngress.