Stealing Character:The woman with no name,
Chapter 1.
Riley “Caezar” Eller has extensive experience in
Internet embedded devices and protocol security. He
invented automatic web vulnerability analysis and ASCII-
armored stack overflow exploits, and contributed to sev-
eral other inventions including a pattern language for
describing network attacks. His credits include the Black
Hat Security Briefings and Training series,“Meet the
Enemy” seminars, the books Hack Proofing Your Network:
Internet Tradecraft (Syngress, ISBN: 1-928994-15-6), and the “Caezar’s Challenge”
think tank.As creator of the Root Fu scoring system and as a founding member of
the only team ever to win three consecutive DEFCON Capture the Flag contests,
Caezar is the authority on security contest scoring.
Stealing Characters: Robert Knoll, Senior (Knuth)
Prologue. Robert Knoll, Junior, Chapter 2.
Ryan Russell (Blue Boar) has worked in the IT field
for over 13 years, focusing on information security for the
last seven. He was the lead author of Hack Proofing Your
Network, Second Edition (Syngress, ISBN: 1-928994-70-9),
contributing author and technical editor of Stealing The
Network: How to Own The Box (Syngress, ISBN: 1-931836-
87-6), and is a frequent technical editor for the Hack
Proofing series of books from Syngress. Ryan was also a
technical advisor on Snort 2.0 Intrusion Detection (Syngress, ISBN: 1-931836-74-4).
Ryan founded the vuln-dev mailing list, and moderated it for three years under
the alias “Blue Boar.” He is a frequent lecturer at security conferences, and can
often be found participating in security mailing lists and website discussions. Ryan
is the QA Manager at BigFix, Inc.