Christien Rioux, also known by his handle DilDog, is the co-founder and chief scientist for the Burlington, Massachusetts based company Veracode, for which he is the main patent holder.
Educated at MIT, Rioux was a computer security researcher at L0pht Heavy Industries and then at the company @stake (later bought by Symantec). While at @stake, he looked for security weaknesses in software and led the development of Smart Risk Analyzer (SRA). He co-authored the best-selling Windows password auditing tool @stake LC (L0phtCrack) and the AntiSniff network intrusion detection system.
He is also a member of Cult of the Dead Cow and its Ninja Strike Force. Formerly, he was a member of L0pht.Security Scene Errata
DilDog is best known as the author of the original code for Back Orifice 2000,cDc communications. "Back Orifice 2000 Press Release ." CULT OF THE DEAD COW Press Release, July 10, 1999. Retrieved April 17, 2007. an open source remote administration tool. He is also well known as the author of "The Tao of Windows Buffer Overflow."Dildog, "The Tao of Windows Buffer Overflow," CULT OF THE DEAD COW issue #351, May 1, 1998. Retrieved April 17, 2007.Park, Yong-Joon and Gyungho Lee, "Repairing return address stack for buffer overflow protection," Proceedings of the 1st conference on Computing frontiers, ACM, 2004. Retrieved April 17, 2007.
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