PHILADELPHIA, PA, January 11, 2023 — The memoir of world-renowned hacker Cris Thomas “Space Rogue: How the Hackers Known as L0pht Changed the World” is on the market for pre-order now. The new guide, to be launched on February 16, 2023, will cowl the influential hacking group L0pht Heavy Industries, the hacker underground of the Nineties, the L0pht’s rise to prominence, their testimony in entrance of the US Senate, their declare of with the ability to “take down the Internet”, and the way their legacy continues to form the safety of the net world at the moment.
“Cyber security has become a critical part of today’s world. The L0pht was there at the start. We helped shape the cyber industry, and form the online world we all live in today.” –Space Rogue
In May 1998, the US Congress invited the seven members of the L0pht to testify on the state of presidency pc safety. Two years later, that very same group rode the dot-com bubble to create the preeminent safety consultancy the trade has ever recognized, @stake. Along the way in which, they stood up in opposition to tech giants like Microsoft, Oracle, Novell and others to reveal weaknesses in these corporations’ premiere merchandise. Despite the L0pht’s technical prowess, the group couldn’t maintain what they’d constructed collectively as cash and inside politics turned pal in opposition to pal. Look inside L0pht Heavy Industries, or just The L0pht, one of the crucial influential hacker teams in historical past. From formation, to congressional testimony, to going legit and the aftermath that adopted.
Follow the hacker ‘Space Rogue’ as he takes you on a journey by means of the magical hacker scene of the Nineties. The L0pht hacker collective not exists, however its legacy lives on. L0pht set the usual for the way the cyber safety trade now releases vulnerability info. Famous hackers that had been as soon as L0pht members, Mudge, Weld Pond, Kingpin, Dildog, Space Rogue, and others have accomplished much more spectacular issues within the following years. The hackers and consultants employed by @stake and indoctrinated into the L0pht mind-set have now develop into giants within the trade. All the hackers who learn safety info off the L0pht’s web site, downloaded software program from the Whacked Mac Archives, or watched the Hacker News Network and have become impressed have modified the world greater than the L0pht might have ever accomplished alone. The L0pht’s message of bringing safety points to gentle and getting them fastened nonetheless echoes all through the trade and is extra necessary at the moment than ever. The L0pht’s dire warning of an more and more dependent tradition on a fragile Internet made throughout their testimony twenty-five years in the past nonetheless holds true. In truth, the Internet could also be in even be worse at the moment. Is it too late to hear?
About Space Rogue (Cris Thomas)
With over 20 years of expertise, Space Rogue (Cris Thomas) has testified earlier than 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 well-liked web sites the Whacked Mac Archives and Cyber Squirrel 1. He produced the weekly podcast SpiderLabs Radio, and the critically acclaimed weekly information 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 safety conferences reminiscent of Def Con, Blackhat, and Shmoocon. Space Rogue at present works because the Global Lead of Policy and Special Initiatives for the legendary IBM X-Force.The guide is on the market for preorder at the moment and will probably be launched on February sixteenth in hardcover, paperback and eBook at higher books shops all over the place. Distributed through Ingram Spark.