Elias Levy
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Elias Levy, a.k.a Aleph One, was the moderator of the full disclosure vulnerability mailing list Bugtraq from May 14, 1996, until he stepped down on October 15, 2001. He was the CTO and co-founder of the computer security company SecurityFocus, which was acquired by Symantec on August 6th, 2002. He is better known as the author of the paper "Smashing The Stack For Fun and Profit", published in 1996 Phrack magazine issue 49, which was the first high-quality public step-by-step introduction to buffer overflow vulnerabilities and their exploitation.