eEye’s Main Guy Goes Bye-Bye

Marc Maiffret, the former hacker-turned bug hunter and founder of eEye Security, maker of the Retina Scanner, is throwing in the CTO towel. I guess some people get burned out when their company never goes public or gets bought out by one of the big boys.

From InfoWorld here:

eEye Digital Security founder Marc Maiffret has left the company and plans to launch a new venture, developing next-generation mobile phone software for the corporate world.

A noted hacker, Maiffret co-founded eEye in the late 1990s with Firas Bushnaq and had served as the company’s CTO, overseeing a staff of about 30 engineers. Bushnaq stepped down as CEO in 2006, and Maiffret said that he’d started thinking about leaving to pursue other startup ideas earlier this year.

The 70-person company, based in Aliso Viejo, California, has been going through some bumpy times lately. Bushnaq’s replacement, Ross Brown, was fired earlier this year, and eEye also recently shut down its Orange County sales offices.

WTF? Cell phone software? Really? I guess its tough to get another CTO job right away when you have a criminal history of hacking.

I will always remember eEye as the company at the center of the cyber-shitstorm that was the Nimda and Code Red worms.