Dave Aitel

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Dave Aitel is a computer security professional. He joined the NSA as a research scientist aged 18 where he worked for six years before being employed as a consultant at @stake for three years. In 2002 he founded a software security company, Immunity, where he is now the CTO.

Aitel co-authored several books:

The Hacker's Handbook: The Strategy Behind Breaking into and Defending Networks. ISBN 978-0849308888
The Shellcoder's Handbook. ISBN 978-0764544682
Beginning Python. ISBN 978-0764596544

He is also well known for writing several security tools:

SPIKE, a block-based fuzzer
SPIKE Proxy, a man-in-the-middle web application assessment tool
Unmask, a tool to do statistical analysis on text to determine authorship

References

^ Canvassing all security cracks. Retrieved on April 16, 2008.
^ Aitel, Dave. 0days: How hacking really works. Retrieved on July 8, 2007.
^ Immunity company information. Retrieved on July 8, 2007.

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