Alex Chapman is a senior consultant for Context Information Security in the UK, where he is heavily involved in security research, including vulnerability discovery, exploitation, bespoke protocol analysis, and binary reverse engineering. He has been credited in security advisories for a number of major software products for vendors such as Citrix, Google, Mozilla and VMware, and has presented at security conferences around the world. His new found interest involves hacking embedded devices, extracting firmware from unknown micro-controllers, and pointing out security flaws which have no place in modern day software.