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Chris Thompson's journey took him from hacking game controls as a teenager to founding IBM’s X-Force Red team.
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Hacker Conversations
Vinnie Liu was recruited by the NSA when he was just 17 years old. He is now the CEO of Bishop Fox.
Hacker Conversations
Marcus Hutchins doesn’t personally consider himself a hacker – but he accepts the epithet because it’s a widely used term for what he once...
Hacker Conversations
Tal Kollander’s history divides neatly into two halves: first as an active hacker and then as the block that stops hacks.
Hacker Conversations
Once a notorious blackhat hacker, McGraw shares his journey from high school hacking and prison to redemption as a cybersecurity advocate.
Hacker Conversations
From building LED bulbs to graduating college and buying a house with money earned from bug bounties.
Artificial Intelligence
AI red team specialist details his methods for manipulating AI guardrails through jailbreaking and data poisoning, helping developers harden machine learning models.
Hacker Conversations
Harris is a hacker with a rebellious spirit and a willingness to break rules in the pursuit of his purpose – but without causing...
Hacker Conversations
A Belgian national, De Ceukelaire’ did not set out to be a hacker. Like many hackers he was born with the potential to become...
Hacker Conversations
Day became a professional hacker by choice. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t a natural hacker.
Hacker Conversations
From dismantling online games as a child to uncovering real-world vulnerabilities, Katie Paxton-Fear explains how autism, curiosity, and a rejection of ambiguity shaped her...
Fraud & Identity Theft
A first-person journey from undetected fraud to defending trust—how life events, neurodiversity, and hard-won insight shaped a former fraudster into a fraud fighter.
Hacker Conversations
For Agarwal, being a hacker is not what you do, but who you are; that is, someone who always questions the status quo and...
Hacker Conversations
Known for her seminal book, A Hacker Manifesto, Wark reframes hacking as a cultural force rooted in play, creativity, and human nature.
Hacker Conversations
Rachel Tobac is a cyber social engineer. She is skilled at persuading people to do what she wants, rather than what they know they...
Hacker Conversations
John Kindervag is best known for developing the Zero Trust Model. He is a hacker, but not within our common definition of a hacker...
Hacker Conversations
Frank Trezza is fairly typical of most hackers. Early pranks sometimes leading to something more serious.
Hacker Conversations
David Kennedy is a hacker. There is no doubt about that. He has qualities common among hackers, but also many differences.
Hacker Conversations
McInerney’s path to becoming a hacker is subtly different to many other hackers. He started as a 22-year old psychology graduate rather than a...
Hacker Conversations
Joe Grand is the epitome of a hacker. Childhood curiosity followed by mischief-making tipping over into illegal behavior before developing into a responsible good...
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Every leaked credential should be dead, or dying, within sixty seconds of being found. Here's a proposal to make that the default.
(Matt Honea)
Security teams must treat autonomous agents as highly privileged identities.
(Etay Maor)
For twenty-five years, "data" in security meant logs and events. But logs are a lossy representation of reality.
(Danelle Au)
Organizations must distinguish identity verification, authentication and threat detection, or risk successfully authenticating the attackers they are trying to stop.
(Torsten George)
Silent patches can become exploit intelligence for attackers while leaving defenders without the context needed to prioritize risk.
(Tod Beardsley)