Dave Aitel (born 1976) is a

computer security Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, the ...

professional. He joined the

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as a research scientist aged 18 where he worked for six years before being employed as a consultant at

@stake ATstake, Inc. was a computer security professional services company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1999 by Battery Ventures (Tom Crotty, Sunil Dhaliwal, and Scott Tobin) and Ted Julian. Its initial core team of techno ...

for three years. In 2002 he founded a

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company,

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, where he was the CTOImmunity company information
. Retrieved on July 8, 2007. up until December 31, 2020. Aitel co-authored several books: * The Hacker's Handbook: The Strategy Behind Breaking into and Defending Networks. * The Shellcoder's Handbook. * Beginning Python. He is also well known for writing several security tools: * SPIKE, a block-based

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* SPIKE Proxy, a man-in-the-middle web application assessment tool * Unmask, a tool to do

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on text to determine authorship Dave Aitel is an infrequent guest on the

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where he provides commentary on information security news.

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Chief technology officers of computer security companies Living people 1976 births {{compu-bio-stub