Peiter C. Zatko (better known as Mudge) was a member of the high profile hacker think tank, the L0pht. Born in December 1970, Mudge graduated from the Berklee College of Music and is an adept guitar player. Mudge was responsible for early research of a security vulnerability known as a buffer overflow. In 1995, he published one of the first papers on the topic, "How to Write Buffer Overflows". Wikipedia