12 "white hat" hackers you should know

These IT security experts go looking for trouble and find it

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The "White Hat" angle: Co-author of the "Mac Hacker's Handbook" and "The Art of Software Security Testing," Dai Zovi discovered and exploited a multi-platform security vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime for Java in one night in order to hack a fully patched MacBook Pro to win the first Pwn2Own competition. He also was the first to publicly demonstrate VM hyperjacking using Intel VT-x in a live demo at Black Hat 2006. He says he can't discuss "the hardest things" he ever hacked since that gets into non-disclosure agreement territory.

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