Before Jens 'Atom' Steube wrote hashcat, he was a bug hunter for fun, focusing on open source software. After 2005 he only did bug hunting on commercial software and therefore not allowed to disclose product names. In 2010 he started hashcat and since that time it's the only project he's been working on.

Thomas MacKenzie works for NCC Group as a Security Consultant, conducting all different types of security assessments. Ryan Dewhurst works for NCC Group as a Security Consultant, conducting all different types of security assessments. ScriptAlert1.com is a very simple and concise platform to explain Cross-Site Scripting, it's dangers and mitigation. Our aim is for penetration testers to include a link in their pen test reports to the resource and to get it to be the de facto description for semi-technical/tech savvy managers.