Elias Levy (also known as Aleph One) is a computer scientist. He was the moderator of "
Bugtraq Bugtraq was an electronic mailing list dedicated to issues about computer security. On-topic issues are new discussions about vulnerabilities, vendor security-related announcements, methods of exploitation, and how to fix them. It was a high-volume ...
", a
full disclosure vulnerability mailing list, from May 14, 1996 until October 15, 2001.
He was the CTO and co-founder of the computer security company
SecurityFocus
SecurityFocus was an online computer security news portal and purveyor of information security services. Home to the well-known Bugtraq mailing list, SecurityFocus columnists and writers included former Department of Justice cybercrime
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, which was acquired by
Symantec Symantec may refer to:
*An American consumer software company now known as Gen Digital Inc.
*A brand of enterprise security software purchased by Broadcom Inc.
Broadcom Inc. is an American designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier ...
on August 6, 2002. He is also known as the author of the article "Smashing The Stack For Fun and Profit", published in 1996 ''
Phrack
''Phrack'' is an e-zine written by and for hackers, first published November 17, 1985. Described by Fyodor as "the best, and by far the longest running hacker zine," the magazine is open for contributions by anyone who desires to publish remarkab ...
'' magazine issue 49, which was the first high-quality, public, step-by-step introduction to
stack buffer overflow
In software, a stack buffer overflow or stack buffer overrun occurs when a program writes to a memory address on the program's call stack outside of the intended data structure, which is usually a fixed-length buffer.
Stack buffer overflow bugs ...
vulnerabilities and their exploitation.
After the sale of
SecurityFocus
SecurityFocus was an online computer security news portal and purveyor of information security services. Home to the well-known Bugtraq mailing list, SecurityFocus columnists and writers included former Department of Justice cybercrime
A c ...
to
Symantec Symantec may refer to:
*An American consumer software company now known as Gen Digital Inc.
*A brand of enterprise security software purchased by Broadcom Inc.
Broadcom Inc. is an American designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier ...
in August 2002, Levy was accused by many of "selling out" and compromising the high principles of the Bugtraq list. The
Full-Disclosure mailing list was founded in part as a protest against the sale.
External links
"Smashing The Stack For Fun and Profit"from 'Phrack' magazine
Hackers episode of NetCafe including an interview with Aleph One
Full-Disclosure mailing listabout Levy and Bugtraq
Levy E
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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