Mark Trumpbour [@mtrumpbour]

Mark Trumpbour began his interest in computer security growing up in a hacker commune on the Jersey Shore in the early Eighties. His first real computer was an Atari 800 that he and his many brothers used to explore the frontiers of cyberspace, not that they called it cyberspace back then. Ever the digital pioneer, Mark was suspended from his high school for connecting a computer lab to the Internet - at a time when the World Wide Web did not yet exist and FTP was considered a wonder of the modern world. (To this day, he ignores requests from the high school alumni office.) Mark's association with Summercon began in 1998 as an attempt to rekindle the creative spirit of hacking, and to demonstrate that hacking can be a socially responsible activity. Mark works in Brooklyn for Graphient, a software development startup that builds tools to generate dynamic visual timelines. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and an extremely lazy greyhound.

redpantz

Redpantz is some douchebag who can barely get his act together enough to get this crappy conference semi-functional. His likes include beer, voilence and long walks in the park. His dislikes are YOUR STUPID FACE!

Ben Agre

Ben Agre is a college student at MIT. He shits and giggles around in assembly and enjoys playing with binaries. He reverse engineers day to day for work. In general he has no idea what's going on, and just in general does random shit.

Dino Dai Zovi [@dinodaizovi]

Dino Dai Zovi is an information security professional, researcher, and author. Mr. Dai Zovi has been working in information security for over 9 years with experience in red teaming, penetration testing, and software security assessments at Sandia National Laboratories, @stake, Bloomberg, and Matasano Security.

As an independent researcher, he is a regular speaker at industry, academic, and hacker security conferences including presentations of his research on hardware virtualization assisted rootkits using Intel VT-x, the KARMA wireless client security assessment toolkit, and offensive security techniques and tools at BlackHat USA, Microsoft BlueHat, CanSecWest, the USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technology, and DEFCON. He is a co-author of the books, “The Mac Hacker’s Handbook” (Wiley 2009) and “The Art of Software Security Testing” (Addison-Wesley, 2006). He is perhaps best known in the security and Mac communities for discovering the vulnerability and writing the exploit to win the first PWN2OWN contest at CanSecWest 2007.

Dino has been named one of the 15 Most Influential People in Security by eWEEK and one of the Top Ten Sexy Geeks (NSFW) by Violet Blue.

Dr. Raid [@drraid]

Raid is a security researcher who focuses on vulnerability discovery and exploitation in the presence of memory protection mechanisms. He has worked at security consultancies, software vendors, and large finance companies. Raid is also a 2-time Pwnie award winning rapper, and guest lecturer on source code auditing at in the Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Analysis class at Polytechnic Institute of NYU. He is honored to be invited back to drunkenly speak again at Summercon.

Dan Guido [@dguido]

Dan Guido is a Security Consultant at iSEC Partners, where he specializes in incident response, application security, and penetration testing. Before joining iSEC, Dan worked for the Federal Reserve System's incident response team where he developed and ran a threat intelligence program to report on current trends in cybercrime, threats to payment systems, and nation-state cyber espionage activities. In addition to his work at iSEC, Dan is an adjunct faculty member at NYU:Poly where he teaches a graduate computer science course in penetration testing and vulnerability analysis.

Jon Larimer [@shydemeanor]

Jon Larimer has been doing computer security stuff professionally for the past 13 or so years. He has been involved in an variety of security fields such as penetration testing, vulnerability research, security software development, digital forensics, and malware analysis. Jon likes reverse engineering things.

Jon Oberheide [@jonoberheide]

Jon Oberheide is CTO of Duo Security, an Ann Arbor-based startup developing kick-ass two-factor authentication. In his free time, Jon dabbles in kernel exploitation, mobile security, and beer brewing.

Stephen A. Ridley [@s7ephen]

Stephen A. Ridley is a security researcher with more than 10 years of experience in software development, software security, and reverse engineering. Before becoming an independent researcher, Mr. Ridley served as Senior Researcher at Matasano. Prior to that: Senior Security Architect at McAfee, and before that he worked at a major U.S. Defense contractor supporting the U.S. intelligence communities. He has spoken about reverse engineering and software security at BlackHat, ReCon,EuSecWest, Syscan and others. Mr. Ridley currently lives in Manhattan and frequently guest lectures at New York area universities such as NYU and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Dan Rosenberg [@djrbliss]

Dan Rosenberg is a security consultant at Virtual Security Research. In his free time, Dan mercilessly crushes both userspace and kernel targets and does his best to make Linux just a little bit more secure.

Jimmy Shah

Jimmy Shah is a Mobile Security Researcher for McAfee, specializing in analysis of mobile threats on existing platforms (J2ME, Symbian, Windows Phone, iOS, Android) and potential mobile malware and spyware. He works with a team of researchers that regularly provides analysis and research on mobile threats to McAfee clients. He has presented on mobile threat research at a number of computer security conferences.

Alex Sotirov [@alexsotirov]

Alexander Sotirov is an independent security researcher with more than ten years of experience with vulnerability research, reverse engineering and advanced exploitation techniques. His recent work includes exploiting MD5 collisions to create a rogue Certificate Authority, bypassing the exploitation mitigations on Windows Vista and developing the Heap Feng Shui browser exploitation technique. His professional experience includes positions as a security researcher at Determina and VMware. Currently he is working as an independent security consultant in New York. He is a regular speaker at security conferences around the world, including CanSecWest, BlackHat and Recon. Alexander served as a program chair of the USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies and is one of the founders of the Pwnie Awards.

Chris Valasek [@nudehaberdasher]

Chris Valasek is the Senior Research Scientist for Accuvant LABS. His focus on original research in areas such as vulnerability discovery, exploitation techniques and reverse engineering has allowed him to contribute massive results to the community in these niche areas. While Chris is best known for his publications regarding the Microsoft Windows Heap, his research has broken new ground in areas such as vulnerability discovery, exploitation techniques, reverse engineering, source code and binary auditing, and protocol analysis. Chris’ most recent major speaking engagements include “Understanding the Low Fragmentation Heap” (Black Hat USA 2010 / EkoParty 2010), “Exploitation in the Modern Era” (Blackhat Europe 2011), and “Modern Heap Exploitation using the Low Fragmentation Heap” (Infiltrate 2011).