<P> Elias Levy (also known as Aleph One) was the moderator of "Bugtraq", a full disclosure vulnerability mailing list, from May 14, 1996 until October 15, 2001 . </P> <P> He was the CTO and co-founder of the computer security company SecurityFocus, which was acquired by Symantec on August 6, 2002 . He is also known as the author of the article "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 stack buffer overflow vulnerabilities and their exploitation . </P>

Smashing the stack for fun and profit by aleph one