Christien Rioux

Christien Rioux
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Residence U.S.
Citizenship American
Fields Computer science
Institutions L0pht
@stake
Symantec
Veracode
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for Security

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 research 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] and subsequent employee of @stake and Symantec, where he was responsible for many security advisories.

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]

Security advisories

Significant security advisories that Rioux authored or coauthored include:

Patents

Rioux is the inventor of the following patents:

References

  1. ^ a b "L0pht in Transition". April 2007. http://www.csoonline.com/read/040107/fea_lopht.html. Retrieved May 3, 2007. 
  2. ^ Fitzgerald, Michael (2007-04-22). "PROTOTYPE; To Find the Danger, This Software Poses as the Bad Guys". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9402E3DC163EF931A15757C0A9619C8B63. Retrieved 2008-10-28. 
  3. ^ "Veracode: Christien Rioux". http://www.veracode.com/about/christien-rioux.html. Retrieved 2009-10-22. 
  4. ^ "Christien Rioux, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist". 2006-12-21. http://www.veracode.com/blog/christien-rioux-co-founder-and-chief-scientist/. Retrieved 2008-10-28. 
  5. ^ "Cult of the Dead Cow: Team Bios". http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cms/team_bios.php3. Retrieved 2011-04-05. 
  6. ^ a b Messmer, Ellen (July 21, 1999). "Bad Rap for Back Orifice 2000?". CNN Online. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9907/21/badrap.idg/. 
  7. ^ Bauer, Mick (September 1, 2002). "Q&A with Chris Wysopal (Weld Pond)". Linux Journal. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6126. 
  8. ^ Security Scene Errata
  9. ^ Messmer, Ellen, "Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow tries to convince world its Back Orifice tool is legit," Network World, July 14, 1999. Retrieved April 17, 2007.
  10. ^ cDc communications. "Back Orifice 2000 Press Release." CULT OF THE DEAD COW Press Release, July 10, 1999. Retrieved April 17, 2007.
  11. ^ Dildog, "The Tao of Windows Buffer Overflow," CULT OF THE DEAD COW issue #351, May 1, 1998. Retrieved April 17, 2007.
  12. ^ 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.
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