Native Client Security Contest

Team: Beached As
Members: Mark Dowd, Ben Hawkes
Submitted issues: 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63

Mark Dowd and Ben Hawkes are application security specialists hailing from Australia and New Zealand, respectively. Mark works for IBM ISS X-Force R&D, whereas Ben currently performs independent research while simultaneously pursuing a mathematics and computing science degree. Both have uncovered major security flaws in ubiquitous Internet software, in terms of both exploitable bugs and weaknesses in system protection mechanisms. Both have spoken at numerous security conferences in recent years, including BlackHat, Ruxcon, KiwiCon, and Cansec West.

Team: CJETM
Members: Jason Carpenter, Eric Monti, Chris Rohlf
Submitted issues: 42, 44, 49, 70

Team CJETM is comprised of security vulnerability researchers Chris Rohlf, Jason Carpenter and Eric Monti. All three have abused software professionally for a long time.

Team: 0xdead
Members: Gabriel Campana
Submitted issues: 45

Gabriel Campana is a security researcher working at Sogeti ESEC R&D labs. His research interests are mainly focused on vulnerability research, exploitation methods, and Linux kernel security. Lately he has been working on automated vulnerability research, especially fuzzing. In his spare time, he plays with embedded network devices.

Team: teamfkmr
Members: Daiki Fukumori
Submitted issues: 66, 67

Daiki Fukumori is a web security researcher. He has given talks at POC Korea and AVTokyo on Web 2.0 Hacking, and he introduced Native Client security at Shibuya.pm. He currently has an interest in cloud security.

Team: Alex Rad
Members: Alex Radocea
Submitted issues: 81

Alex Radocea is a 20-year old student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In the realm of computer security he is really excited about proactively designed technology which can help wipe out entire bug classes. Currently he is helping improve Native Client through Google Summer of Code.