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.
Appearing at: