Space Rogue’s work area inside the L0pht hackerspace in Boston. (Photo courtesy of Cris Thomas) Phreaks and l33ts: Inside the early ‘90s tech scene that created L0pht, the legendary hackerspace The hackers of LOpht testified before Congress and went on to shape today’s cybersecurity industry. This is the story of how it started. Feb 5, 2023 By Cris Thomas
Peiter “Mudge” Zatko (center) speaks at an event on Capitol Hill in 2018 (Internet Education Foundation). Twitter hires influential hacker Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko as security boss The news comes after Twitter said in September it had hired Rinki Sethi as chief information security officer. Nov 16, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas
(Getty Images) The moral clarity of ‘Cult of the Dead Cow’ The story of the 'original hacking supergroup' shows how hackers have evolved over 30 years. Jun 13, 2019 By Sean Lyngaas
(Marcio Fontana/Flickr) Veracode sells to CA Technologies for $614 million One member of the infamous L0pht group is now a very rich man. Mar 6, 2017