Michał Zalewski (born 19 January 1981), also known by the

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from

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. He is a former

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employee (until 2018), and currently the VP of Security Engineering at

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He has been a prolific vulnerability researcher and a frequent

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poster since the mid-1990s, and has written a number of programs for

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s. In 2005, Zalewski wrote ''Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks'', a computer security book published by

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and subsequently translated into a number of languages. In 2011, Zalewski wrote ''The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications'', also published by No Starch Press. For his continued research on browser security, he was named one of the 15 most influential people in security and among the 100 most influential people in IT. Zalewski was one of the original creators of Argante, a virtual

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operating system. Among other projects, he also created p0f and

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Reported bugs

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References

External links

Michał Zalewski's personal home pageMichał Zalewski's personal blog
1981 births Living people People associated with computer security Google employees {{europe-compu-bio-stub