Latest Cybersecurity News
Brian Krebs: The Reporter Who Learned Russian to Hunt Hackers
One worm infected his home PC in 2001, and he has been hunting the people behind malware ever since. The hackers have answered with heroin, SWAT teams and a record-breaking DDoS.
Daniel Stenberg: The Programmer Whose Code Runs on Mars
He just wanted his IRC bot to show currency exchange rates. What he built instead ended up in every phone, every car dashboard and a helicopter flying over Mars.
David Bombal: The Dropout Who Taught the World Networking
At 19 he was working retail six days a week after leaving university. How he went from the shop floor to CCIE on his first try, then to one of tech's biggest YouTube classrooms.
Eugene Kaspersky: The KGB-Trained Coder Who Built an Antivirus Empire
A virus sent the letters on his work PC tumbling into a heap in 1989, so he took it apart for fun. Why the man behind one of the best antiviruses is also one of security's most argued-over figures.
Gordon Lyon: The Coder Whose Summer Project Ended Up in The Matrix
Stuck in a Baltimore dorm with fast Ethernet and nothing good to scan it with, a teaching assistant wrote his own tool. Hollywood, the FBI and Google all came calling.
H. D. Moore: The Teen Dropout Who Hacked for the Air Force
He built a PC from dumpster parts, left school at 15 and was pen testing military systems at 17. Then he wrote the framework that changed hacking forever.
Ian Clarke: The Student Whose B-Grade Paper Became Freenet
His professors gave the idea a B. Within a year Time magazine had a nickname for him, and his anonymous network was being downloaded by the tens of thousands.
Kevin Mitnick: The Fugitive Who Tracked the FBI Agents Hunting Him
He broke into DEC at 16, tried a Pentagon computer in 1983 and spent two and a half years as a fugitive with hundreds of cloned phones. The strangest part is where he ended up.
