Christien Rioux
Christien Rioux | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | File:Flag of the United States.svg American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Security |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | L0pht @stake Symantec Veracode |
Christien Rioux, also known by his handle DilDog,[1] is the co-founder and chief scientist for the Burlington, Massachusetts based company Veracode, for which he is the main patent holder.[2]
Educated at MIT, Rioux was a computer security researcher at L0pht Heavy Industries and then at the company @stake (later bought by Symantec).[1] While at @stake, he looked for security weaknesses in software and led the development of Smart Risk Analyzer (SRA).[3] He co-authored the best-selling Windows password auditing tool @stake LC (L0phtCrack) and the AntiSniff network intrusion detection system.[4]
He is also a member[5] of Cult of the Dead Cow[6] and its Ninja Strike Force. Formerly, he was a member of L0pht.[7][8]
DilDog is best known as the author of the original code for Back Orifice 2000,[6][9][10] an open source remote administration tool. He is also well known as the author of "The Tao of Windows Buffer Overflow."[11][12]
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- ^ Security Scene Errata Archived May 2, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ cDc communications. "Back Orifice 2000 Press Release Archived 2005-03-05 at the Wayback Machine." CULT OF THE DEAD COW Press Release, July 10, 1999. Retrieved April 17, 2007.
- ^ Dildog, "The Tao of Windows Buffer Overflow," CULT OF THE DEAD COW issue #351, May 1, 1998. Retrieved April 17, 2007.
- ^ Park, Yong-Joon and Gyungho Lee, "Repairing return address stack for buffer overflow protection," Proceedings of the 1st conference on Computing frontiers, ACM, 2004. Retrieved April 17, 2007.