Elias Levy (also known as Aleph One) is a computer scientist. He was the moderator of "
Bugtraq", a
full disclosure vulnerability mailing list, from May 14, 1996 until October 15, 2001.
He was the CTO and co-founder of the computer security company
SecurityFocus, which was acquired by
Symantec on August 6, 2002. He is also known as the author of the article "Smashing The Stack For Fun and Profit", published in 1996 ''
Phrack
''Phrack'' is an e-zine written by and for Hacker (computer security), hackers, first published November 17, 1985. It had a wide circulation which included both hackers and computer security professionals.
Originally covering subjects related to ...
'' magazine issue 49, which was the first high-quality, public, step-by-step introduction to
stack buffer overflow
In software, a stack buffer overflow or stack buffer overrun occurs when a program writes to a memory address on the program's call stack outside of the intended data structure, which is usually a fixed-length buffer.
Stack buffer overflow bugs ...
vulnerabilities and their exploitation.
After the sale of
SecurityFocus to
Symantec in August 2002, Levy was accused by many of "selling out" and compromising the high principles of the Bugtraq list. The
Full-Disclosure mailing list was founded in part as a protest against the sale.
External links
"Smashing The Stack For Fun and Profit"from 'Phrack' magazine
Hackers episode of NetCafe including an interview with Aleph One
Full-Disclosure mailing listabout Levy and Bugtraq
Levy E
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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