Marcel Holtmann

Marcel Holtmann is the maintainer and the core developer of the official Linux Bluetooth stack which is called BlueZ. He started working with the Bluetooth technology back in 2001. His work includes new hardware drivers, upper layer protocol implementations and the integration of Bluetooth into other subsystems of the Linux kernel. In January 2004 he overtook the maintainer role from the original developer Max Krasnyansky.

Together with Jean Tourrilhes he maintains the OpenOBEX project. He is also responsible for the IrDA and Bluetooth integrations of the Gnokii project.

Martin Herfurt

Martin Herfurt is a researcher at the Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H and lecturer in Telecommunications Engineering Degree Program at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and Technologies.

He completed his Telecommunications Engineering Degree at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and Technologies in 2001. Alongside his study Martin was involved in numerous industry projects, providing him with commercial programming practise. In 2000 Martin followed up his formal study with a four-month internship at the telecommunications institute of TELCOT institute in San Ramon, California, USA.

Since the second half of 2000 Martin has been working as a full time researcher at Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H. His project responsibilities range from the co-ordination of a European IST project with a total budget of over 5 million Euro to software agents development.

Together with a Salzburg Research colleague, Martin began in the summer of 2003 a class on mobile data services at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and Technologies.Martin is also currently working on a PhD in computer science at the University of Salzburg.As part of his fascination with the rapid development in computer programming Martin has become a regular participant in the Chaos Communication Congress which is a yearly meeting of the German hacker association CCC.

Thorsten Holz

Thorsten Holz is a Ph.D. student at the Laboratory for Dependable Distributed Systems at the University of Mannheim, Germany. His research interests include the practical aspects of secure systems, but he is also interested in more theoretical considerations of dependable systems. Thorsten is one of the founders of the German Honeynet Project and his work concentrates currently on bots/botnets and malware in general. He is one of the authors of the "Know Your Enemy: Tracking Botnets" paper and has also published various other papers in this area, e.g., at SecurityFocus and several academic conferences/magazines.

Marc Maiffret – eEye Digital Security's Co-Founder/CTO and Chief Hacking Officer

As eEye Digital Security's Co-Founder/CTO and Chief Hacking Officer, Marc Maiffret has been a driving force in the vision and continuous innovation for eEye's product development and vulnerability research efforts since the company's inception in 1998. Long regarded as a security expert and thought leader in vulnerability assessment and endpoint security, Marc Maiffret also leads the efforts of eEye's world renowned Research Team. In addition, Mr. Maiffret speaks regularly on the state of security across the globe, including several appearances before Congress, where he has testified on information policies and security threats posed to both public and private infrastructures. Mr. Maiffret's role in vulnerability research, education and product innovation has been reflected in the numerous awards and distinguishments that eEye Digital Security continuously receives.

Melanie Rieback

Melanie Rieback is a Ph.D. student in Computer Systems at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where she is supervised by Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum.  Melanie's research concerns the security and privacy of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, and she leads multidisciplinary research teams on RFID privacy management (RFID Guardian) and RFID security (RFID Malware) projects.  Melanie's recent work on RFID Malware has attracted worldwide attention, appearing in the New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters, UPI, de Volkskrant, Computable, Computerworld, Computer Weekly, CNN, BBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and many other print, broadcast, and online news outlets.  Melanie has also served as an invited expert for RFID discussions involving both the American and Dutch governments.  In a past life, Melanie also worked on the Human Genome Project at the MIT Center for Genome Research / Whitehead Institute.  She was part of the public genome sequencing consortium, and is listed as a coauthor on the seminal paper 'Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome', which appeared in the journal Nature.

Michael Steil

Born in 1979, Michael Steil has been using and programming computers since the age of 10. He specialized in embedded systems, security systems, operating systems and virtualization. In 2002, he founded the Xbox Linux Project: He lead the team that reverse-engineered the internals of the Microsoft Xbox, constructed the majority of hacks of the Xbox security system as well as ported the GNU/Linux operating system on the Xbox platform. Besides, he also founded and contributed to other open source and hacking projects, such as Gamecube-Linux and SoftPear. He wrote many articles and wrote and contributed to some books about UNIX and programming. Furthermore, he gave several talk about GameCube and Xbox hacking at LinuxTag, LinuxWorld and the Chaos Communication Congress.
Michael Steil holds a Dipl.-Inf. degree from the TU München and is currently employed by a major IT company, working on operating systems kernels.

Mikko Kiviharju

Mikko Kiviharju works as a research scientist for the Finnish Government in the field of data security and cryptography. He is focusing on biometrics and identity-based cryptography; other interests include reverse-engineering and theoretical computer security (attack graphs, modeling abstract security notions). Mikko is a member of IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research) and is working on his doctoral thesis in cryptology.

Wietse Venema

Wietse Venema is a research staff member at the IBM T.J.Watson research center. After completing his Ph.D. in physics he changed career to computer science and never looked back. Wietse is known for his software such as the TCP Wrapper and the POSTFIX mail system. He co-authored the SATAN network scanner and the Coroner's Toolkit (TCT) for forensic analysis, and co-authored a book on Forensic Discovery. Wietse received awards from the System Administrator's Guild (SAGE) and from the Netherlands UNIX User Group (NLUUG). He served a two-year term as chair of the international Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST).

Kevin Mitnick

With more than fifteen years of experience in exploring computer security, Kevin Mitnick is a largely self-taught expert in exposing the vulnerabilities of complex operating systems and telecommunications devices. His hobby as an adolescent consisted of studying methods, tactics, and strategies used to circumvent computer security, and to learn more about how computer systems and telecommunication systems work.
In building this body of knowledge, Kevin gained unauthorized access to computer systems at some of the largest corporations on the planet and penetrated some of the most resilient computer systems ever developed. He has used both technical and non-technical means to obtain the source code to various operating systems and telecommunications devices to study their vulnerabilities and their inner workings.
As the world’s most famous hacker, Kevin has been the subject of countless news and magazine articles published throughout the world. He has made guest appearances on numerous television and radio programs, offering expert commentary on issues related to information security. Mitnick has served as a keynote speaker at numerous industry events, hosted a weekly talk radio show on KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles, testified before the United States Senate, written for Harvard Business Review and spoken for Harvard Law School. His first best-selling book, The Art of Deception, was published in October 2002 by Wiley and Sons Publishers. His second title, The Art of Intrusion, was released in February 2005.

Stefan Strobel

Stefan was one of the founders of Centaur in 1995 where he built up the security department which was sold to Integralis in 1998. He did consulting for many multinational industrial clients in IT Security and later moved to the European Strategic Development Team of Articon-Integralis where he was responsible for finding and evaluating new technologies. He is the author of several books which have been translated in more than 5 languages. His book on Firewalls is now in the 3rd edition. He regularly speaks at security congresses and teaches IT-Security and Cryptography at University of Applied Sciences at Heilbronn. He is now co-founder and CEO of cirosec.

Tobias Klein

After concluding his university studies, Tobias Klein joined cirosec GmbH in July 2002 as an IT-security consultant. He is author of the book "Linux-Sicherheit – Security mit Open-Source-Software – Grundlagen und Praxis" (Linux Security – Security with Open Source Software – Fundamentals and Practice) published by dpunkt Verlag, and the book "Buffer Overflow und Format-String-Attacken-Problematik" (Buffer Overflow and Format String Attack Problems).