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Opinion

From NSA Recruit at 17 to CEO: The Making of a White-Hat Hacker

Vinnie Liu never broke into systems for thrills. He did it to understand them. That distinction, formed before he was a teenager, shaped a career that went from the NSA to running one of the most recognised offensive security firms in the business.

4 min read
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Policy & Regulation

A 1990 Law Could Send Ethical Hackers to Prison. Dozens of Countries Are Fixing That.

Researcher Katharina Sommer mapped which nations protect good-faith security work and built a five-point blueprint to push the UK's creaking Computer Misuse Act into the present day.

4 min read
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Threat Intelligence

The World's Greatest Detective Was Also the World's Greatest Con Artist

A cybersecurity professor dressed as Sherlock Holmes walked a DEF CON audience through why the tricks criminals use to manipulate people today are identical to what a Victorian fictional detective pulled off in the 1890s.

4 min read
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Threat Intelligence

From Breaking In to Shutting Hackers Out: The Two Lives of Tal Kollander

Tal Kollander spent years on the offensive side of hacking before switching to defence. His story shows how the two worlds actually think about each other.

2 min read
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