Tim Newsham

Tim Newsham is a computer security professional. He has been influencing and contributing to the security community for more than a decade. He has performed ground-breaking research while working at security companies like: @stake, Guardent, ISS, and Network Associates (originally Secure Networks) [ [http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/ Tim Newsham's Personal Webpage] . Retrieved on August 26, 2007.] . Mr. Newsham is best known for co-authoring the paper [http://www.securityfocus.com/data/library/ids.ps Insertion, Evasion and Denial of Service: Eluding Network Intrusion Detection] with Thomas Ptacek, a paper that simultaneously broke every Network Intrusion Detection product on the market and has been cited [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/showciting?doi=10.1.1.42.5765] by many academic works on Network Intrusion Detection since.

He is also known for publishing a number of other prominent white papers:
* [http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/random-increments.pdf The Problem With Random Increments]
* [http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2000/Sep/0214.html Format String Attacks]
* [http://www.lava.net/~newsham/wlan/WEP_password_cracker.pdf Cracking WEP Keys: Applying Known Techniques to WEP Keys]

In addition to his research, Mr. Newsham is also known for his pioneering work on several influential security products, including:
* Internet Security Scanner
* Ballista (Cybercop) Scanner
* The software that would later drive [http://www.veracode.com VeraCode]

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