Marco Ivaldi is a seasoned information security researcher and consultant. He works as Offensive Security Manager at a leading security advisory firm based in Italy. As a member of the ISECOM Core Team, he is involved in the development of the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM), the international standard for performing security testing. Marco is also a prolific exploit writer and polyglot programmer of weird machines. Back in the 90s, he co-founded Linux&C, the first Italian magazine about Linux and open source. His homepage and playground is 0xdeadbeef.info.