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Co-Founder/CEO at ⚡️ @Wirespeed_ Prev: @NetSPI, @CYDERES, @FishtechGroup, @SCYTHE Advisor, @Walmart Red Team, @Sp4rkCon, @Optiv, @fishnetsecurity. Hacking everything from mainframes to apps to AI.

Principal Security Researcher & Team Lead @ Akamai SIRT. Fingerprinting tricky attacks, attributing botnets, acquiring thousands of underground samples of malicious software (c2's, bots, malware source, etc.) and reversing some of them. Discovered vulnerabilities in mDNS and IKEv2. He has produced many advisories, assisted international law enforcement in taking down botnets and baddies, as well as international speaker.

Research Director @ Volexity, co-developed the NIJ-funded Registry Decoder forensics application and is a core developer of The Volatility Framework. He has published peer-reviewed papers and presented at conferences worldwide.

Author, Instructor SANS SEC588, Currently Palo Alto Networks. Formerly Cisco, Neuvik and GRIMM Red Team Operations. Still a maker of finely made, handcrafted, artisanal, bespoke exploits. Consultant, Researcher.

int eighty (he/him) is a computer crime enthusiast, and the rapper in Dual Core.
Occasional memes and hacking content on BlueSky/Mastodon/GitHub as @int0x80.
Photo @wafflesweekly

Marina is a friendly little girl from Brazil who breaks and enters for a living. A Social Engineer specialized in physical pentesting, she has stolen, spied and sabotaged some of the largest companies in her country - and global companies as well. All legal and ethical, of course, as a physical pentest should be. She has worked with the hacking and security communities for almost 10 years, as an events organizer, community manager and content creator, understanding how to better communicate and navigate the culture and needs of hackers, no matter what hat color they consider themselves to have. Marina is now CEO of her own company, Hekate Inc, providing cyber security awareness campaigns, and connecting tech and security companies with people from all backgrounds. You may have already met her in conferences around the globe as a speaker, attendee or enjoying a Dual Core from the backstage.

Despite his misguided childhood and checkered past, Andy Lewis has become a contributing member of society. A former US Marine, Andy led the cyber team at Dish & several other organizations before his journey to The Dark Side of pre-sales engineering. He founded the Denver and Boulder OWASP chapters and co-founded the SnowFROC regional Appsec conference and is currently a Solutions Architect and honeybee wrangler for ReversingLabs, working daily to reduce Software Supply Chain risks to his Customers.

Chris is part of the HackNWA crew with a fascinating background. He grew up in New Jersery, he learned to code in assembler at 7yrs old and was writing and optimizing video games for his siblings. Later in life he held multiple director level roles such as Director of Network Operations at Interop Technologies, then CTO of Bernett Research before returning to more hands on keyboard roles before getting into the CTF circuit and writing his own shell code on the fly. Currently in the top 50 rankings on the National Cyber League, he has pwnd many a CTFs and is a top hacker

Jimi2x over 25 years in the Information Security industry, Jimi has successfully navigated through many roles within the Infosec landscape, including Network/System/Security Engineering, Threat Intel/Risk Analysis, Offensive Security, Red/Blue/Purple Teaming as well as Research & Development. A former member of the US National Video Game Team, Jimi's passionate curiosity brings a gamer mentality to the world of Threat Research, Detection and Elimination.

Just a guy stumbling through the mysteries like Detective Columbo. BS in Biotechnology; professional software developer; amateur cryptographer and learner of languages.

Lead Security Researcher @ Versprite, Formerly Obscillum, Dataflow Sec, Exodus Intelligence. Vulnerability researcher with a few TrendMicro Zero Day Initiative published exploits (ZDI-18-468, ZDI-18-1063) and CVE-2019-13208 LPE. Fuzzing all the things, producing RCA's and advisories on Zero-Days or N-Days and the occasional blog post.

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Shannon is part of the HackNWA crew and the creator of our ASMb1337 coding challenges. He was trained in the ways of the low level for his first career, coding OSD overlays and remote control systems in the Arkansas Delta when companies such as Sanyo and others were manufacturing TVs and electronics in state. He continues hardware hacking and the low level experience by coding video games, demo scenes and other interesting things for the 6502.