Kevin Poulsen
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| Kevin Poulsen | |
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 Kevin Lee Poulsen (right), pictured circa 2001 with Adrian Lamo (left) and Kevin Mitnick (center) |
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| Born | 1965 (age 47–48) Pasadena, California |
| Other names | Dark Dante |
| Occupation | Senior editor at Wired News |
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| http://www.kevinpoulsen.com | |
Kevin Lee Poulsen (born 1965) is an American former black hat hacker who is News Editor at Wired.com.
Biography
He was born in Pasadena, California, in 1965.[1]
His best-appreciated hack was a takeover of all of the telephone lines for Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM, guaranteeing that he would be the 102nd caller and win the prize of a Porsche 944 S2.[2][3]
When the Federal Bureau of Investigation started pursuing Poulsen, he went underground as a fugitive. When he was featured on NBC's Unsolved Mysteries, the show's 1-800 telephone lines mysteriously crashed.[2][4]
Poulsen has reinvented himself as a journalist since his release from prison, and sought to distance himself from his criminal past. Poulsen served in a number of journalistic capacities at California-based security research firm SecurityFocus, where he began writing security and hacking news in early 2000. Despite a late arrival to a market saturated with technology media, SecurityFocus News became a well-known name in the tech news world during Poulsen's tenure with the company and was acquired by Symantec. His original investigative reporting was frequently picked up by the mainstream press. Poulsen left SecurityFocus in 2005 to freelance and pursue independent writing projects. He became a senior editor for Wired News in June 2005, which hosts his recent (as of 2006[update]) blog, 27BStroke6,[5] which has since been renamed Threat Level.[6]
In October 2006, Poulsen released information detailing his successful search for registered sex offenders using MySpace to solicit sex from children. His work identified 744 registered people with MySpace profiles, and led to the arrest of one, Andrew Lubrano.[7]
Kevin Poulsen broke the initial story of the arrest of U.S. serviceman Bradley Manning, and published the logs of Manning's supposedly incriminating chats with Adrian Lamo regarding WikiLeaks.[8]
Awards
- 2011 Webby Award (International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences), Law category, for Threat Level[9]
- 2011 Webby Award (International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences), People's Voice award, Law category, for Threat Level[9]
- 2010 SANS Top Cyber Security Journalists (SANS Institute)[10]
- 2010, MIN Best of the Web (Magazine Industry Newsletter),[11] Best Blog, for Threat Level[12]
- 2009, MIN Digital Hall of Fame (Magazine Industry Newsletter)[11] Inductee[13]
- 2008, Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism (J-Lab)[14] Grand Prize[15]
Books
- Poulsen, Kevin (2011). Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground. Crown. ISBN 978-0-307-58868-5.
- Poulsen, Kevin (2011). Kingpin: The True Story Of Max Butler, The Master Hacker Who Ran A Billion Dollar Cyber Crime Network. Hachette (Australia). ISBN 978-0-7336-2771-2.
- Pendulous, Kevin (2011). Haker: Prawdziwa historia szefa cybermafii. Znak (Poland). ISBN 978-83-240-1659-4.
References
- ^ Richard Gissel. Digital Underworld (August 23, 2005 ed.). Lulu.com. p. 222. ISBN 1-4116-4423-9.Kevin Lee Poulsen was born in Passadena, California in 1965. It was claimed that when he was 17 he used his radio shack TRS-80 to attack Arpanet, the predecessor of the Internet.
- ^ a b "Kevin Poulsen". livinginternet. 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
- ^ "A Crime By Any Other Name...". FREEDOM Magazine. VOL 27 Issue 4. Retrieved 2008-08-24.
- ^ "Top 10 Most Famous Hackers of All Time". itsecurity. 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-24.
- ^ "Wired.com". Blog.wired.com. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
- ^ Kravets, David (2012-01-23). "Threat Level - Privacy, Crime and Security Online". Wired.com. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
- ^ "MySpace Predator Caught by Code". Wired News. October 16, 2006. Retrieved 2008-08-24.
- ^ "The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks". Salon.com accessdate = 2011-06-28. June 18, 2010.
- ^ a b "Webby Nominees". Webbyawards.com. 2011-10-28. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
- ^ "2010 Top Cyber Security Journalist Award Winners". SANS. 2009-07-24. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
- ^ a b "minonline.com". minonline.com. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
- ^ "min's 2010 Best of the Web Awards". MinOnline. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
- ^ "Digital Hall of Fame: Kevin Poulsen, Senior Editor, Wired.com". MinOnline. 2011-12-08. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
- ^ "j-lab.org". j-lab.org. 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
- ^ "Knight-Batten 2008 Winners » Projects » J-Lab". J-lab.org. 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
Further reading
- Jonathan Littman, The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen, 1997, publisher: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-52857-9
External links
- KevinPoulsen.com; Personal web presence by Poulsen.
- Threat Level (former 27BStroke6) Blog by Kevin Poulsen and Ryan Singel
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