Alex ASSOCIATED_WITH Australia
Jack states that Alex lives in Australia.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 84 Details
“Alex lives in Australia.”
Person
person:alex
Also: Alex Hope, Mango PDF
Australian red-team practitioner and security incident responder who investigated the exposure of Tony Abbott's travel data.
Australian red-team practitioner and security incident responder who investigated the exposure of Tony Abbott's travel data.
“For this story, I’m talking with a person whose hacker name is “Alex”.”
“A big thank you to Alex Hope, AKA Mango PDF for your story.”
Name given in the episode for AlphaBay’s administrator.
“we learn that the admin was a guy named Alex”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | Australia | Explicit | 84 |
| outgoing | USES | Google Chrome | Explicit | 84 |
| outgoing | USES | Explicit | 84 | |
| outgoing | USES | Photoshop | Explicit | 84 |
| outgoing | USES | View Source | Explicit | 84 |
| outgoing | USES | responsible disclosure | Explicit | 84 |
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | AlphaBay | Attributed | 104 |
| incoming | DEVELOPED_BY | mango.pdf.zone | Explicit | 84 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | passport number exposure | Explicit | 84 |
Alex ASSOCIATED_WITH Australia
Jack states that Alex lives in Australia.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 84 Details
“Alex lives in Australia.”
mango.pdf.zone DEVELOPED_BY Alex
Alex has and maintains the blog mango.pdf.zone, where they document things they have hacked.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 84 Details
“Alex has a blog. It’s called mango.pdf.zone where they document different things they’ve hacked.”
Alex USES Google Chrome
Alex used Google Chrome to begin researching the boarding pass.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Alex EP 84 Details
“I opened up Google Chrome and just started typing in the bar at the top”
Alex used Google to research what information on the boarding pass was sensitive and how it could be used.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 84 Details
“After some Googling, Alex found out that their first target should be the bar code”
Alex used Photoshop to adjust the boarding-pass image in an attempt to scan its barcode.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Alex EP 84 Details
“I went into Photoshop and tried to turn up the contrast”
Alex USES View Source
Alex used the browser’s Inspect/View Source function to examine the airline page’s HTML.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Alex EP 84 Details
“I used the only hacker tool I know which is to right click on a page and then click Inspect or Inspect Element.”
passport number exposure INVOLVES Alex
Alex investigated the boarding pass, accessed the booking page, found the exposed information, and reported it.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 84 Details
“Alex took on the challenge of hacking the former PM Tony Abbott’s boarding pass”
Alex USES responsible disclosure
Alex says the activity was done for research and responsible disclosure, including notifying ASD and Qantas.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 84 Details
“This was done for research and to do responsible disclosure”
The episode identifies Alex as AlphaBay’s administrator and says he ran the site.
Attributed Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“the admin was a guy named Alex”
“the admin who ran the site”