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Published inFeb 2016
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Ryan "elfmaster" O'Neill
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Ryan "elfmaster" O'Neill

Ryan "elfmaster" O'Neill is a computer security researcher and software engineer with a background in reverse engineering, software exploitation, security defense, and forensics technologies. He grew up in the computer hacker subculture, the world of EFnet, BBS systems, and remote buffer overflows on systems with an executable stack. He was introduced to system security, exploitation, and virus writing at a young age. His great passion for computer hacking has evolved into a love for software development and professional security research. Ryan has spoken at various computer security conferences, including DEFCON and RuxCon, and also conducts a 2-day ELF binary hacking workshop. He has an extremely fulfilling career and has worked at great companies such as Pikewerks, Leviathan Security Group, and more recently Backtrace as a software engineer. Ryan has not published any other books, but he is well known for some of his papers published in online journals such as Phrack and VXHeaven. Many of his other publications can be found on his website at http://www.bitlackeys.org.
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Lubomir Rintel is a systems programmer based in Brno, Czech Republic. He's a full-time software developer currently working on Linux networking tools. Other than this, he has a history of contributions to many projects, including the Linux kernel and Fedora distribution. After years of being active in the free software community, he can appreciate a good book that covers the subject in a context wider than a manual would. He believes that this is such a book and hopes you enjoy it as much as he did. Also, he likes anteaters.

As of November 2015, Kumar Sumeet has over 4 years of research experience in IT security, during which he has produced a frontier of hacking and spy tools. He holds an MSc in information security from Royal Holloway, University of London. His recent focus area is machine learning techniques for detecting cyber anomalies and to counter threats.

Sumeet currently works as a security consultant for Riversafe, which is a London-based network security and IT data management consultancy firm. Riversafe specializes in some cutting-edge security technologies is also a Splunk Professional Services partner of the year 2015 in the EMEA region. They have completed many large-scale projects and engagements in multiple sectors, including telecommunications, banking and financial markets, energy, and airport authorities.

Sumeet is also a technical reviewer of the book Penetration Testing Using Raspberry Pi, Packt Publishing.

For more information or details about his projects and researches, you can visit his website at https://krsumeet.com or scan this QR code:

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Heron Yang has always been working on creating something people really want. This firm belief of his was first established in high school. Then he continued his journey at National Chiao Tung University and Carnegie Mellon University, where he focused on Computer Science studies. As he cares about building connections between people and fulfilling user needs, he devoted himself to developing prototypes of start-up ideas, new applications or websites, study notes, books, and blogs in the past few years.

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Author (1)

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Ryan "elfmaster" O'Neill

Ryan "elfmaster" O'Neill is a computer security researcher and software engineer with a background in reverse engineering, software exploitation, security defense, and forensics technologies. He grew up in the computer hacker subculture, the world of EFnet, BBS systems, and remote buffer overflows on systems with an executable stack. He was introduced to system security, exploitation, and virus writing at a young age. His great passion for computer hacking has evolved into a love for software development and professional security research. Ryan has spoken at various computer security conferences, including DEFCON and RuxCon, and also conducts a 2-day ELF binary hacking workshop. He has an extremely fulfilling career and has worked at great companies such as Pikewerks, Leviathan Security Group, and more recently Backtrace as a software engineer. Ryan has not published any other books, but he is well known for some of his papers published in online journals such as Phrack and VXHeaven. Many of his other publications can be found on his website at http://www.bitlackeys.org.
Read more about Ryan "elfmaster" O'Neill