Steve Gibson (computer programmer)
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| Born | March 26, 1955 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | Software engineer and security analyst |
| Known for | Security Now! podcast on TWiT.tv |
| Website | www |
Steven Gibson (born 26 March 1955) is an American software engineer, security researcher, and IT security proponent. In the early 1980s, Gibson was best known for his work on light pen technology for use with Apple and Atari systems. In 1985, Gibson founded Gibson Research Corporation, best known for its SpinRite software.
Gibson started working on computers as a teenager, and got his first computing job with Stanford University's artificial intelligence lab when he was 15 years old. He studied electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Gibson was hired as a programmer for California Pacific Computer Company in 1980, where he worked on copy protection for the company's products.
Gibson founded Gibson Laboratories in Laguna Hills, California in 1981; Gibson Labs developed a light pen for the Apple II, Atari, and other platforms and went out of business in 1983.
In 1985 Gibson founded Gibson Research Corporation (GRC) - a computer software development firm.
From 1986 to 1993 Gibson wrote the "Tech Talk" column for InfoWorld magazine.
In 1999, Gibson created one of the first adware removal programs, which he called OptOut.
In 2001, Gibson predicted that Microsoft's implementation of the SOCK_RAW protocol in the initial release of Windows XP would lead to widespread chaos by making it easier for Windows XP users to create denial of service (DoS) attacks. In that year, his company's website was brought down by a DoS attack generated by a "13-year-old amateur hacker"; the attacks continued for two weeks. Gibson blogged about the attacks and his efforts to track down the hacker. The internet did not collapse, but three years after the Windows XP release, Microsoft limited raw socket support in Service Pack 2.
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