Tavis Ormandy

English-born computer security analyst known for detecting high-risk vulnerabilities in software

PersonhumanQ18720278

Occupation: programmer
, security hacker
Employer: Google
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1.wired.com/2014/07/google-project-zero/
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Tavis Ormandy is an English computer security white hat hacker. Until October 10, 2025, he was employed by Google, and he was formerly part of Google's Project Zero team.

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Discovered

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CCloudbleedsecurity bug discovered on February 17, 2017 affecting Cloudflare's reverse proxies, which caused their edge servers to run past the end of a buffer and return memory containing private information (e.g. cookies, authentication tokens)

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Sex or gender: male
Given name: Tavis
Website: taviso.decsystem.org language: English
lock.cmpxchg8b.com language: English
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1.twitter.com/tavisoRetrieved 2021-07-25
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Social media followers: 126,621(February 6, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 14453232
123,934(March 2, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 14453232
115,727(January 4, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 14453232
87,172(May 10, 2018) x (twitter) numeric user id: 14453232
Family name: Ormandy
Public key fingerprint: 55D326837CEC61A98DC2C2BE1BF27C4E33687117
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1.taviso.decsystem.org/#toc5Retrieved 2021-07-25
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Member of: Project Zero

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