Author Archives: Space Rogue

About Space Rogue

With over two decades of experience, Space Rogue (Cris Thomas) has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and has been interviewed by Wired, CNBC and even MTV. He created the wildly popular websites the Whacked Mac Archives and Cyber Squirrel 1. He produced the weekly podcast SpiderLabs Radio, and the critically acclaimed weekly news video program the Hacker News Network. His writing has appeared in Network Computing, New Statesman, The Hill, and the Christian Science Monitor. He has spoken at security conferences such as Def Con, Blackhat, and Shmoocon. Space Rogue currently works as the Global Lead of Policy and Special Initiatives for the legendary IBM X-Force.

PWN to Own Take 2

The folks over at CanSecWest will once again be hosting their popular PWN to OWN contest at this years con. I wrote about last year’s contest that was won after a spl0it was found in Quicktime that allowed the attacker … Continue reading

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Quickies and L0pht News

There have been a lot of things happening in the security world lately that I have wanted to write about like Geekonomics, the half million pictures pilfered from MySpace and the accompanying torrent file, how the NSA has wrestled control … Continue reading

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