Anne Saita, writing for Information Security magazine, called him along with his brother Mark Litchfield, "World's Best Bug Hunters" in December 2003.
At the Blackhat Security Briefings in July 2002 he presented some exploit code to demonstrate a buffer overflow vulnerability he had discovered in Microsoft's SQL Server 2000.
[3] He is in the process of researching and developing an open-source tool called the Forensic Examiner's Database Scalpel (F.E.D.S).
[4] Litchfield founded a company named Cerberus Information Security which was acquired by @stake in July 2000.
A year and a half later he founded Next Generation Security Software with three colleagues and his brother Mark and his father from @stake.