Well hello there. I'm known by most people within the computer security world as bannedit. I'm a Security Intelligence Engineer for a rather large company and I spend a lot of my time doing security related research. Mainly I enjoy writing exploit code for vulnerabilities and source code auditing. I hang out a lot on pulltheplug.org a site which hosts wargames which are interesting challenges for people interested in learning more about computer security.

I've been doing computer security research the majority of my life and I enjoy it. I like looking at code which is meant to be secure and finding flaws in it. I'm by no means a bad guy. Many people hear the term hacker and instantly think of the malicous hackers. Not all hackers are bad guys. Everything I do is legal and its how I make a living, doing what I love to do. When I discover a vulnerability in software I commonly report it to the vendor who created the software. I do this so that software can be fixed and in the end be more secure.

So hopefully you enjoy my blog. I intend on posting about some interesting subjects maybe a little about recent security issues and some information about what I'm working on. Hopefully this blog is considered to be educational to everyone at some point.