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Steve Gibson (computer programmer)

March 27, 2023

For other people named Steve Gibson, see Steve Gibson (disambiguation).

Steven[3] "Steve Tiberius"[4] Gibson (born March 26, 1955) is an American software engineer, security researcher, and IT security proponent. In the early 1980s, he worked on light pen technology for use with Apple and Atari systems, and in 1985, founded Gibson Research Corporation, best known for its SpinRite software.

Steve Gibson
Gibson in 2007
Born (1955-03-26) March 26, 1955 (age 67)[1]
Dayton, Ohio, U.S.[2]
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley
Occupation(s)Software engineer and security analyst
Known forSecurity Now! podcast on TWiT.tv
Websitewww.grc.com

Early life

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.[5] He then studied electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.[citation needed]

Career

Gibson was hired as a programmer for California Pacific Computer Company in 1980, where he worked on copy protection for the company's products.[6] He then founded Gibson Laboratories in Laguna Hills, California, in 1981, which developed a light pen for the Apple II, Atari, and other platforms before going out of business in 1983.[7][8][9]

In 1985, Gibson founded Gibson Research Corporation (GRC), a computer software development firm,[7] and from 1986 to 1993, he wrote the "Tech Talk" column for InfoWorld magazine.[10]

In 1999, Gibson created one of the first adware removal programs, which he called OptOut.[11] In 2001, he 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.[12][13][14] That year, his company's website was brought down by DoS attacks[5] which continued for two weeks. Gibson blogged about the attacks and his (ultimately successful) efforts to track down the hacker.[5] Three years after the Windows XP release, Microsoft limited raw socket support in Service Pack 2.[15]

In 2005, he launched a weekly podcast called Security Now with Leo Laporte on TWiT.tv, with its archives hosted on GRC's website.[16][17]

In 2006, Gibson raised the possibility that the Windows Metafile vulnerability bug was actually a backdoor intentionally engineered into the system.[18] A response by Microsoft,[19] and by Mark Russinovich on Microsoft's Technet blog,[20] stated that the bug appeared to be coding error and that Gibson's reasoning was based upon Microsoft's abort procedure documentation being misleading.

In 2013, he proposed SQRL as a way to simplify the process of authentication without the risk of revelation of information about the transaction to a third party.[21]

GRC products

GRC has created a number of utilities, most of which are freeware.[22][23]

  • DNS Benchmark, freeware that lets users test the performance of the domain name servers used by their internet service providers.[24]
  • Securable, freeware to test whether a pre-Windows 7 computer is 64-bit compatible. It also tells the user whether Data Execution Prevention is enabled.[25]
  • Shields Up, a free browser-based firewall testing service; one of the oldest available[26][27]
  • SpinRite, a hard disk scanning and data recovery utility first released in 1988.[28] As of January 2019 the current version was 6.0,[29] which was first released in 2004.[30] SpinRite is a commercial product, costing US$89 as of July 2021.[29] Gibson's work on SpinRite has led to him being considered an expert on hard drive failure.[31]
  • Spoofarino, freeware released in 2006 and promised since the controversy over the launch of Windows XP in 2001, it enables users to test whether their internet service providers allow them to send forged or "spoofed" packets of data to Gibson's Web site.[32]
  • Never10, standalone freeware program that toggles registry values in Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, which either disables or enables Microsoft's Get Windows 10 app and automatic OS upgrade. As of version 1.3, it also triggers the removal of any previously downloaded Windows 10 upgrade files as part of the disable function.[33][34] He has also stated that he is producing "Never11", to stop automatic upgrading to Windows 11.[35]
  • InSpectre, a utility that examines a computer's vulnerability to the Meltdown and Spectre attacks.[36]
  • InitDisk, a tool that was developed for GRC's next release of SpinRite(6.1). It's a safe USB drive formatter that allows the user to reformat any USB device and make it bootable.[37]
  • ReadSpeed, an accurate benchmark for PC mass storage. The tool measures stability and repeatability to a precision of more than 4 significant digits.[38]
  • InControl, a tool which allows managing Windows 10 and 11 out-of-control updating and upgrading. It is the successor to Never10.[39]

Works

  • — (1991). A Passion for Technology, 1986 - 1990 Cumulative Index and 1986. Aliso Viejo, California: Gibson Research Corporation. ISBN 978-1880814864. OCLC 1245623144. OL 28048112M.
  • — (1991). A Passion for Technology 1987. Vol. One. Aliso Viejo, California: Gibson Research Corporation. ISBN 978-1880814871. OCLC 1245623144.
  • — (1991). A Passion for Technology 1988. Vol. Two. Aliso Viejo, California: Gibson Research Corporation. ISBN 978-1880814888. OCLC 1245623144. OL 27971346M. Retrieved 1 January 2022 – via Internet Archive.
  • — (1991). A Passion for Technology 1989. Vol. Three. Aliso Viejo, California: Gibson Research Corporation. ISBN 978-1880814895. OCLC 1245623144. OL 27971314M.
  • — (1991). A Passion for Technology 1990. Vol. Four. Aliso Viejo, California: Gibson Research Corporation. ISBN 978-1880814901. OCLC 1245623144.

References

  1. ^ "Security Now 500". TWiT.TV. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
  2. ^ "Security Now! #76, January 25, 2007, Listener Feedback Q&A #15". Retrieved August 12, 2019.
  3. ^ "California Business Search for "gibson research corporation"". California Secretary of State. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
  4. ^ "Security Now! Transcript of Episode #700". www.grc.com. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  5. ^ a b c Millar, Stuart (June 5, 2001). "Teenage hackers". The Guardian.
  6. ^ Knudsen, Richard (January 1981). "Exec California Pacific: Innovative Marketing Budges" (PDF). Softalk Magazine. 1 (5): 34.
  7. ^ a b Gibson, Steve. "Steve's Resumé". GRC.com. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
  8. ^ Mace, Scott (December 26, 1983). "Hardware: Light Pen Technology looks to the Micro". InfoWorld. p. 61. Retrieved January 27, 2015. The Gibson Light Pen has been developed for Atari home computers.
  9. ^ "InfoWorld Aug 9, 1982 / P13-17". books.google.com. Popular Computing Inc. August 9, 1982. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  10. ^ "SpinRite upgrade". InfoWorld. October 11, 1993. ...Steve Gibson, whose Tech Talk column has run in InfoWorld for close to eight years...
  11. ^ Lavasoft. "The History of Spyware". Lavasoft.com. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
  12. ^ Radcliff, Deborah (October 22, 2001). "Windows XP: Is it safe?". Computerworld.
  13. ^ . Online Tonight with David Lawrence (video). 2001. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2015.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  14. ^ Fogie, Seth (June 21, 2002). "Raw Sockets Revisited: What Happened to the End of the Internet?". InformIT.
  15. ^ Griffiths, Ian (August 12, 2004). "Raw Sockets Gone in XP SP2". IanG on Tap.
  16. ^ "Security Now! Episode Archive". GRC.com. Gibson Research Corporation. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
  17. ^ Bowers, Andy (December 9, 2005). "Slate's Podcast Roundup". Slate.
  18. ^ "Security Now! Episode Archive". GRC.com. Gibson Research Corporation. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
  19. ^ Toulouse, Stephen (January 13, 2006). . Microsoft Security Response Center. Archived from the original on January 16, 2006. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  20. ^ Helweg, Otto (January 18, 2006). . Mark Russinovich's Blog. Archived from the original on December 18, 2006. Retrieved October 29, 2006.
  21. ^ Gibson, Steve (October 2013). "Secure Quick Reliable Login". GRC.com.
  22. ^ Luo, John (March 2004). "Open-source and general public license programs cost little or nothing. Are they right for your practice?" (PDF). Current Psychiatry.
  23. ^ Coolidge, Daniel S. (January–February 2006). "Cyber-Vermin: Dealing with Dangerous Fauna Infesting the Internet". GPSolo Magazine.
  24. ^ Softpedia. "DNS Benchmark". Softpedia. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
  25. ^ Orchilles, Jorge (2010). Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator's Reference: Upgrading, Deploying, Managing, and Securing Windows 7. Syngress. p. 10. ISBN 9781597495622.
  26. ^ Biersdorfer, J. D. (April 6, 2010). "Q.&A.: Torching Your Firewall — On Purpose". The New York Times.
  27. ^ Leonhard, Woody (2005). Windows XP Timesaving Techniques For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 429–30. ISBN 9780764596179.
  28. ^ Mendelson, Edward; Stark, Craig L. (October 11, 1988). "First Looks". PC Magazine.
  29. ^ a b "SpinRite". GRC.com. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
  30. ^ Mainelli, Tom (August 2, 2004). "Review: SpinRite 6 to the Rescue". PCWorld.
  31. ^ Anderson, Nate (February 25, 2007). "Experts: No cure in sight for unpredictable hard drive loss". Ars Technica.
  32. ^ Rosenberger, Rob (April 1, 2006). "Steve Gibson finally releases DDoS attack tool". Spyware Point.
  33. ^ Thurrott, Paul (March 28, 2016). "Steve Gibson's Never 10 Helps You Turn Off the Windows 10 Upgrade". thurrott.com. Retrieved April 30, 2016.
  34. ^ "This simple app will block Microsoft from downloading Windows 10 on your PC". businessinsider.com. Retrieved April 30, 2016.
  35. ^ "Security Now! Transcript of Episode #857".
  36. ^ Thorp-Lancaster, Dan (January 17, 2017). "InSpectre will quickly check if your PC is vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre". Windows Central. Mobile Nations. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  37. ^ "GRC InitDisk".
  38. ^ "GRC ReadSpeed".
  39. ^ "GRC InControl".

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For other people named Steve Gibson see Steve Gibson disambiguation Steven 3 Steve Tiberius 4 Gibson born March 26 1955 is an American software engineer security researcher and IT security proponent In the early 1980s he worked on light pen technology for use with Apple and Atari systems and in 1985 founded Gibson Research Corporation best known for its SpinRite software Steve GibsonGibson in 2007Born 1955 03 26 March 26 1955 age 67 1 Dayton Ohio U S 2 NationalityAmericanEducationUniversity of California BerkeleyOccupation s Software engineer and security analystKnown forSecurity Now podcast on TWiT tvWebsitewww wbr grc wbr com Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 GRC products 3 Works 4 References 5 External linksEarly life EditGibson 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 5 He then studied electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California Berkeley citation needed Career EditGibson was hired as a programmer for California Pacific Computer Company in 1980 where he worked on copy protection for the company s products 6 He then founded Gibson Laboratories in Laguna Hills California in 1981 which developed a light pen for the Apple II Atari and other platforms before going out of business in 1983 7 8 9 In 1985 Gibson founded Gibson Research Corporation GRC a computer software development firm 7 and from 1986 to 1993 he wrote the Tech Talk column for InfoWorld magazine 10 In 1999 Gibson created one of the first adware removal programs which he called OptOut 11 In 2001 he 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 12 13 14 That year his company s website was brought down by DoS attacks 5 which continued for two weeks Gibson blogged about the attacks and his ultimately successful efforts to track down the hacker 5 Three years after the Windows XP release Microsoft limited raw socket support in Service Pack 2 15 In 2005 he launched a weekly podcast called Security Now with Leo Laporte on TWiT tv with its archives hosted on GRC s website 16 17 In 2006 Gibson raised the possibility that the Windows Metafile vulnerability bug was actually a backdoor intentionally engineered into the system 18 A response by Microsoft 19 and by Mark Russinovich on Microsoft s Technet blog 20 stated that the bug appeared to be coding error and that Gibson s reasoning was based upon Microsoft s abort procedure documentation being misleading In 2013 he proposed SQRL as a way to simplify the process of authentication without the risk of revelation of information about the transaction to a third party 21 GRC products Edit GRC has created a number of utilities most of which are freeware 22 23 DNS Benchmark freeware that lets users test the performance of the domain name servers used by their internet service providers 24 Securable freeware to test whether a pre Windows 7 computer is 64 bit compatible It also tells the user whether Data Execution Prevention is enabled 25 Shields Up a free browser based firewall testing service one of the oldest available 26 27 SpinRite a hard disk scanning and data recovery utility first released in 1988 28 As of January 2019 update the current version was 6 0 29 which was first released in 2004 30 SpinRite is a commercial product costing US 89 as of July 2021 update 29 Gibson s work on SpinRite has led to him being considered an expert on hard drive failure 31 Spoofarino freeware released in 2006 and promised since the controversy over the launch of Windows XP in 2001 it enables users to test whether their internet service providers allow them to send forged or spoofed packets of data to Gibson s Web site 32 Never10 standalone freeware program that toggles registry values in Windows 7 8 and 8 1 which either disables or enables Microsoft s Get Windows 10 app and automatic OS upgrade As of version 1 3 it also triggers the removal of any previously downloaded Windows 10 upgrade files as part of the disable function 33 34 He has also stated that he is producing Never11 to stop automatic upgrading to Windows 11 35 InSpectre a utility that examines a computer s vulnerability to the Meltdown and Spectre attacks 36 InitDisk a tool that was developed for GRC s next release of SpinRite 6 1 It s a safe USB drive formatter that allows the user to reformat any USB device and make it bootable 37 ReadSpeed an accurate benchmark for PC mass storage The tool measures stability and repeatability to a precision of more than 4 significant digits 38 InControl a tool which allows managing Windows 10 and 11 out of control updating and upgrading It is the successor to Never10 39 Works Edit 1991 A Passion for Technology 1986 1990 Cumulative Index and 1986 Aliso Viejo California Gibson Research Corporation ISBN 978 1880814864 OCLC 1245623144 OL 28048112M 1991 A Passion for Technology 1987 Vol One Aliso Viejo California Gibson Research Corporation ISBN 978 1880814871 OCLC 1245623144 1991 A Passion for Technology 1988 Vol Two Aliso Viejo California Gibson Research Corporation ISBN 978 1880814888 OCLC 1245623144 OL 27971346M Retrieved 1 January 2022 via Internet Archive 1991 A Passion for Technology 1989 Vol Three Aliso Viejo California Gibson Research Corporation ISBN 978 1880814895 OCLC 1245623144 OL 27971314M 1991 A Passion for Technology 1990 Vol Four Aliso Viejo California Gibson Research Corporation ISBN 978 1880814901 OCLC 1245623144 References Edit Security Now 500 TWiT TV Retrieved May 15 2015 Security Now 76 January 25 2007 Listener Feedback Q amp A 15 Retrieved August 12 2019 California Business Search for gibson research corporation California Secretary of State Retrieved November 3 2017 Security Now Transcript of Episode 700 www grc com Retrieved February 12 2019 a b c Millar Stuart June 5 2001 Teenage hackers The Guardian Knudsen Richard January 1981 Exec California Pacific Innovative Marketing Budges PDF Softalk Magazine 1 5 34 a b Gibson Steve Steve s Resume GRC com Retrieved February 8 2015 Mace Scott December 26 1983 Hardware Light Pen Technology looks to the Micro InfoWorld p 61 Retrieved January 27 2015 The Gibson Light Pen has been developed for Atari home computers InfoWorld Aug 9 1982 P13 17 books google com Popular Computing Inc August 9 1982 Retrieved February 24 2016 SpinRite upgrade InfoWorld October 11 1993 Steve Gibson whose Tech Talk column has run in InfoWorld for close to eight years Lavasoft The History of Spyware Lavasoft com Retrieved February 8 2015 Radcliff Deborah October 22 2001 Windows XP Is it safe Computerworld Raw Sockets Debate Steve Gibson with Tom C Greene Online Tonight with David Lawrence video 2001 Archived from the original on March 4 2016 Retrieved February 7 2015 a href Template Cite AV media html title Template Cite AV media cite AV media a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link Fogie Seth June 21 2002 Raw Sockets Revisited What Happened to the End of the Internet InformIT Griffiths Ian August 12 2004 Raw Sockets Gone in XP SP2 IanG on Tap Security Now Episode Archive GRC com Gibson Research Corporation Retrieved February 8 2015 Bowers Andy December 9 2005 Slate s Podcast Roundup Slate Security Now Episode Archive GRC com Gibson Research Corporation Retrieved December 12 2017 Toulouse Stephen January 13 2006 Looking at the WMF issue how did it get there Microsoft Security Response Center Archived from the original on January 16 2006 Retrieved October 29 2021 Helweg Otto January 18 2006 Inside the WMF Backdoor Mark Russinovich s Blog Archived from the original on December 18 2006 Retrieved October 29 2006 Gibson Steve October 2013 Secure Quick Reliable Login GRC com Luo John March 2004 Open source and general public license programs cost little or nothing Are they right for your practice PDF Current Psychiatry Coolidge Daniel S January February 2006 Cyber Vermin Dealing with Dangerous Fauna Infesting the Internet GPSolo Magazine Softpedia DNS Benchmark Softpedia Retrieved February 8 2015 Orchilles Jorge 2010 Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator s Reference Upgrading Deploying Managing and Securing Windows 7 Syngress p 10 ISBN 9781597495622 Biersdorfer J D April 6 2010 Q amp A Torching Your Firewall On Purpose The New York Times Leonhard Woody 2005 Windows XP Timesaving Techniques For Dummies John Wiley amp Sons pp 429 30 ISBN 9780764596179 Mendelson Edward Stark Craig L October 11 1988 First Looks PC Magazine a b SpinRite GRC com Retrieved February 8 2015 Mainelli Tom August 2 2004 Review SpinRite 6 to the Rescue PCWorld Anderson Nate February 25 2007 Experts No cure in sight for unpredictable hard drive loss Ars Technica Rosenberger Rob April 1 2006 Steve Gibson finally releases DDoS attack tool Spyware Point Thurrott Paul March 28 2016 Steve Gibson s Never 10 Helps You Turn Off the Windows 10 Upgrade thurrott com Retrieved April 30 2016 This simple app will block Microsoft from downloading Windows 10 on your PC businessinsider com Retrieved April 30 2016 Security Now Transcript of Episode 857 Thorp Lancaster Dan January 17 2017 InSpectre will quickly check if your PC is vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre Windows Central Mobile Nations Retrieved January 17 2018 GRC InitDisk GRC ReadSpeed GRC InControl External links EditOfficial website Steve Gibson interviewed on the TV show Triangulation on the TWiT tv network http www computerhistory org collections catalog 102674112 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Steve Gibson computer programmer amp oldid 1140082611, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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