David Thiel is a Principal Security Consultant with iSEC Partners, Inc. He has over 12 years of computer security experience, auditing and designing security infrastructure in the electronic commerce, government, aerospace and online wagering industries. Areas of expertise are web application penetration testing, network protocols, fuzzing, UNIX, and MacOS X. Research interests include mobile and embedded device exploitation, media software vulnerabilities, and attack vectors in emerging web application technologies. He has presented research and security topics at Black Hat USA, Black Hat EU, DEFCON, PacSec and Syscan, and is a contributor to the FreeBSD project.