Dave Aitel

Dave Aitel (born 1976) is a computer security professional. He joined the NSA as a research scientist aged 18 where he worked for six years before being employed as a consultant at @stake for three years. In 2002 he founded a security software company, Immunity, where he was the CTO 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 has also written several security tools:

• SPIKE, a block-based fuzzer
• SPIKE Proxy, a man-in-the-middle web application assessment tool
• Unmask, a tool to do statistical analysis on text to determine authorship

Dave Aitel is an infrequent guest on the Fox News Channel, where he provides commentary on information security news.

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