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.Canvassing all security cracks. Retrieved on April 16, 2008.Aitel, Dave. How hacking really works . Retrieved on July 8, 2007. In 2002 he founded a security software company, Immunity, where he was the CTOImmunity company information . Retrieved on July 8, 2007. 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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