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词条 Steve Gibson (computer programmer)
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  1. Personal

  2. Career

     GRC products 

  3. Works

  4. References

  5. External links

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Steven[2] "Steve Tiberius[3]" Gibson (born 26 March 1955) is an American software engineer, security researcher, and IT security proponent. In the early 1980s, Gibson worked on light pen technology for use with Apple and Atari systems. In 1985, he founded Gibson Research Corporation, best known for its SpinRite software.

Personal

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

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.[4]

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.[5][6][7].

In 1985 Gibson founded Gibson Research Corporation (GRC) - a computer software development firm.[5]

From 1986 to 1993 Gibson wrote the "Tech Talk" column for InfoWorld magazine.[8]

In 1999, Gibson created one of the first adware removal programs, which he called OptOut.[9]

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.[10][11][12] In that year, his company's website was brought down by a DoS attack;[4] the attacks continued for two weeks. Gibson blogged about the attacks and his (ultimately successful) efforts to track down the hacker.[13] Three years after the Windows XP release, Microsoft limited raw socket support in Service Pack 2.[14]

In 2005 Gibson launched a weekly podcast called "Security Now" with Leo Laporte on TWiT.tv, with its archives hosted on GRC's website.[15][16]

In 2006 Gibson raised the possibility that the Windows Metafile vulnerability bug was actually a backdoor intentionally engineered into the system.[17] A response by Microsoft[18] and by Mark Russinovich on Microsoft's Technet[19] stated that the bug appeared to be coding error and that Gibson's reasoning was based upon Microsoft's abort procedure documentation being misleading.

GRC products

GRC has created a number of utilities, most of which are freeware.[20][21]

  • DNS Benchmark, freeware that lets users test the performance of the domain name servers used by their internet service providers.[22]
  • Securable, freeware to test whether a pre-Windows 7 computer is 64-bit compatible. It also tells the user if Data Execution Prevention is enabled.[23]
  • Shields Up, a free browser-based firewall testing service; one of the oldest available[24][25]
  • SpinRite, a hard disk scanning and data recovery utility first released in 1988.[26] As of January 2019 the current version was 6.0,[27] which was first released in 2004.[28] SpinRite is a commercial product, costing $89 as of January 2019.[27] Gibson's work on SpinRite has led to him being considered an expert on hard drive failure.[29]
  • 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.[30]
  • 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 also triggers the removal of any previously downloaded Windows 10 upgrade files as part of the disable function.[31][32]
  • InSpectre, a utility that examines a computer's vulnerability to the Meltdown and Spectre attacks.[33]

Works

  • {{cite book |last=Gibson |first=Steve |date=1991 |title=A Passion for Technology, 1986 - 1990 Cumulative Index and 1986 |url= |location=Aliso Viejo, California |publisher=Gibson Research Corporation |isbn=1-880814-86-2}}
  • {{cite book |last=Gibson |first=Steve |date=1991 |title=A Passion for Technology Volume One 1987 |url= |location=Aliso Viejo, California |publisher=Gibson Research Corporation |isbn=1-880814-87-0}}
  • {{cite book |last=Gibson |first=Steve |date=1991 |title=A Passion for Technology Volume Two 1988 |url= |location=Aliso Viejo, California |publisher=Gibson Research Corporation |isbn=1880814889 }}
  • {{cite book |last=Gibson |first=Steve |date=1991 |title=A Passion for Technology Volume Three 1989 |url= |location=Aliso Viejo, California |publisher=Gibson Research Corporation |isbn=1-880814-89-7}}
  • {{cite book |last=Gibson |first=Steve |date=1991 |title=A Passion for Technology, Volume Four 1990 |url= |location=Aliso Viejo, California |publisher=Gibson Research Corporation |isbn=1880814897}}

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://twit.tv/show/security-now/500|title=Security Now 500 | TWiT.TV|publisher=twit.tv|accessdate=May 15, 2015}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/CBS/SearchResults?SearchType=CORP&SearchCriteria=gibson+research+corporation&SearchSubType=Keyword|title=California Business Search for "gibson research corporation"|last=|first=|date=|website=California Secretary of State|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-11-03}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-700.htm|title=Security Now! Transcript of Episode #700|website=www.grc.com|access-date=2019-02-12}}
4. ^{{cite journal |last=Knudsen |first=Richard |title=Exec California Pacific: Innovative Marketing Budges |url=http://www.softalkapple.com/sites/default/files/Softalk_V1.05_draft.pdf |work=Softalk Magazine |date=January 1981 |volume=1 |number=5 |page=34}}
5. ^1 2 {{cite web |first=Steve |last=Gibson |url=https://www.grc.com/resume.htm |title=Steve's Resumé |work=GRC.com |accessdate=February 8, 2015}}
6. ^{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ei4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=Hardware: Light Pen Technology looks to the Micro |last=Mace |first=Scott |date=December 26, 1983 |page=61 |work=InfoWorld |accessdate=January 27, 2015 |quote=The Gibson Light Pen has been developed for Atari home computers.}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=InfoWorld Aug 9, 1982 / P13-17|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NDAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=david+needle+lps+II&source=bl&ots=EzqKX99XPh&sig=nHRHeNsDHThMZHFc-yAX-u-PMWA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9wLzGgJHLAhXLVz4KHar4BX8Q6AEIMDAC#v=onepage&q=david%20needle%20lps%20II&f=false|website=books.google.com|publisher=Popular Computing Inc|accessdate=24 February 2016}}
8. ^{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ToEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102 |title=SpinRite upgrade |date=October 11, 1993 |work=InfoWorld |quote=...Steve Gibson, whose Tech Talk column has run in InfoWorld for close to eight years...}}
9. ^{{cite web |author=Lavasoft |url=http://www.lavasoft.com/mylavasoft/securitycenter/articles/spyware-history |title=The History of Spyware |work=Lavasoft.com |accessdate=February 8, 2015}}
10. ^{{cite news |first=Deborah |last=Radcliff |work=Computerworld |date=October 22, 2001 |url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/2585406/operating-systems/windows-xp--is-it-safe-.html |title=Windows XP: Is it safe?}}
11. ^{{cite media |type=video |url=http://www.vpwsys.net/download/grc_low.wma | title=Raw Sockets Debate: Steve Gibson with Tom C. Greene |year=2001 |work=Online Tonight with David Lawrence |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/stevegibsoninterviewrawsocketsgrc |archive-date=May 7, 2014 |deadurl=no |accessdate=February 7, 2015}}
12. ^{{cite news |first=Seth |last=Fogie |work=InformIT |date=June 21, 2002 |url=http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=27289 |title=Raw Sockets Revisited: What Happened to the End of the Internet?}}
13. ^1 2 {{cite news |first=Stuart |last=Millar |work=The Guardian |date=June 5, 2001 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2001/jun/05/hacking.security |title=Teenage hackers}}
14. ^{{cite news |first=Ian |last=Griffiths |work=IanG on Tap |date=August 12, 2004 |url=http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2004/08/12/norawsockets |title=Raw Sockets Gone in XP SP2}}
15. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.grc.com/sn/past/2005.htm |title=Security Now! Episode Archive |work=GRC.com |publisher=Gibson Research Corporation |accessdate=February 8, 2015}}
16. ^{{cite news |first=Andy |last=Bowers |work=Slate |date=December 9, 2005 |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/podcasts/2005/12/slates_podcast_roundup.html |title=Slate's Podcast Roundup}}
17. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-022.htm |title=Security Now! Episode Archive |work=GRC.com |publisher=Gibson Research Corporation |accessdate=December 12, 2017}}
18. ^{{cite news |first=Stephen |last=Toulouse |work=Microsoft Security Response Center |date=January 13, 2006 |url=http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/01/13/417431.aspx |title=Looking at the WMF issue, how did it get there?}}
19. ^{{cite news |first=Otto |last=Helweg |work=Mark Russinovich's Blog |date=January 18, 2006 |url=http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2006/01/18/inside-the-wmf-backdoor.aspx |title=Inside the WMF Backdoor}}
20. ^{{cite news |first=John |last=Luo |url=http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/fileadmin/cp_archive/pdf/0303/0303_Psyberpsy.pdf |title=Open-source and general public license programs cost little or nothing. Are they right for your practice? |work=Current Psychiatry |date=March 2004}}
21. ^{{cite news |first=Daniel S. |last=Coolidge |work=GPSolo Magazine |date=January–February 2006 |url=http://www.americanbar.org/newsletter/publications/gp_solo_magazine_home/gp_solo_magazine_index/cybervermin.html |title=Cyber-Vermin: Dealing with Dangerous Fauna Infesting the Internet}}
22. ^{{cite web |author=Softpedia |url=http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Network-Testing/DNS-Benchmark.shtml |title=DNS Benchmark |work=Softpedia |accessdate=February 8, 2015}}
23. ^{{cite book |first=Jorge |last=Orchilles |title=Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator's Reference: Upgrading, Deploying, Managing, and Securing Windows 7 |publisher=Syngress |year=2010 |isbn=9781597495622 |page=10}}
24. ^{{cite web |first=J. D. |last=Biersdorfer |work=The New York Times |date=April 6, 2010 |url=http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/qatorching-your-firewall-on-purpose/?_r=0 |title=Q.&A.: Torching Your Firewall — On Purpose}}
25. ^{{cite book |first=Woody |last=Leonhard |title=Windows XP Timesaving Techniques For Dummies |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2005 |isbn=9780764596179 |pages=429–30}}
26. ^{{cite news |title=First Looks |first1=Edward |last1=Mendelson |first2=Craig L. |last2= Stark |work=PC Magazine |date=October 11, 1988 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_H7d93IWwogC&pg=PA38&dq=spinrite&hl=en&sa=X&ei=k7HlU93uJ8zi8AWhpYLIDA&ved=0CD0Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=spinrite&f=false}}
27. ^1 {{cite web |work=GRC.com |url=https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm |title=SpinRite |accessdate=February 8, 2015}}
28. ^{{cite news |first=Tom |last=Mainelli |work=PCWorld |date=August 2, 2004 |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/117080/article.html |title=Review: SpinRite 6 to the Rescue}}
29. ^{{cite news |first=Nate |last=Anderson |work=Ars Technica |date=February 25, 2007 |url=https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/02/8917/ |title=Experts: No cure in sight for unpredictable hard drive loss}}
30. ^{{cite news |first=Rob |last=Rosenberger |work=Spyware Point |date=April 1, 2006 |url=http://www.spywarepoint.com/steve-gibson-finally-releases-ddos-attack-tool-t56793.html |title=Steve Gibson finally releases DDoS attack tool}}
31. ^{{cite web|title=Steve Gibson’s Never 10 Helps You Turn Off the Windows 10 Upgrade|url=https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/65706/steve-gibsons-never-10-helps-turn-off-windows-10-upgrade-announcement|website=thurrott.com|accessdate=30 April 2016}}
32. ^{{cite news|title=This simple app will block Microsoft from downloading Windows 10 on your PC|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/never-10-stops-windows-10-upgrade-2016-3|accessdate=30 April 2016|publisher=businessinsider.com}}
33. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.windowscentral.com/inspectre-lets-you-quickly-check-if-your-pc-vulnerable-meltdown-and-spectre |title=InSpectre will quickly check if your PC is vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre |last=Thorp-Lancaster |first=Dan |date=January 17, 2017 |work=Windows Central |publisher=Mobile Nations |accessdate=January 17, 2018}}

External links

  • {{official website|https://www.grc.com/}}
  • {{Triangulation|144|Steve Gibson}}
  • http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102674112
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