Krebs Given ISSA’s ‘President’s Award’

KrebsOnSecurity was honored this month with the 2017 President's Award for Public Service from the Information Systems Security Association, a nonprofit organization for cybersecurity professionals. The award recognizes an individual's contribution to the information security profession in the ar...

ICANN Hires Def Con Founder Jeff Moss as Security Chief !

ICANN Hires Def Con Founder Jeff Moss as Security Chief ! Jeff Moss, the hacker better known as "The Dark Tangent," has been named Vice President and Chief Security Officer of ICANN, the non-profit corporation that manages the Internet's names and numbering infrastructure. He is the founder of DE...

Jeff Moss on the History of DEFCON, Black Hat and the Security Underground

Dennis Fisher talks with Jeff Moss, the founder of DEFCON and Black Hat, about the history of the shows, the Michael Lynn-Cisco incident and the evolution of the hacker culture. Download Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65...

Jeff Moss on the vulnerability economy

Jeff Moss, the founder of DEFCON and Black Hat, discusses the unfolding of the vulnerability economy. Nowadays, instead of exposing high profile zero-day vulnerabilities at conferences, many researchers opt for selling their discoveries on a growing market...