Person
person:grifter
Also: Neil Wyler
Host of the DEF CON Social Engineering contest award ceremony mentioned in the episode.
Host of the DEF CON Social Engineering contest award ceremony mentioned in the episode.
“the award ceremony being hosted by a guy named Grifter”
Cybersecurity professional and DEF CON and Black Hat participant interviewed in the episode.
“I made the decision that I was gonna put on there Neil Wyler, AKA Grifter”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | USES | bulletin board systems | Explicit | 157 |
| outgoing | USES | barcode swapping | Explicit | 157 |
| outgoing | USES | carding | Explicit | 157 |
| outgoing | EXPLOITS | elevator card-reader vulnerability | Explicit | 157 |
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | Air Force | Explicit | 157 |
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | DEF CON | Explicit | 157 |
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | Black Hat | Explicit | 157 |
| outgoing | AUTHORED | Aggressive Network Self-Defense | Explicit | 157 |
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | Coalfire | Explicit | 157 |
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | IBM X-Force | Explicit | 157 |
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | RSA Security | Explicit | 157 |
| outgoing | USES | Threat hunting | Explicit | 157 |
| incoming | DEVELOPED_BY | Defcon Groups | Explicit | 157 |
Grifter USES bulletin board systems
Grifter says his first online experiences involved dialing into pirate bulletin board systems to download pirated games, and later using a hacker BBS.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Grifter EP 157 Details
“my first online experiences, which were dialing into pirate bulletin board systems to download pirated games”
Grifter USES barcode swapping
Grifter describes using barcode or sticker swapping to buy expensive goods at lower prices and return them for profit.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Grifter EP 157 Details
“we’d all go on a Saturday and we’d go out to the store and we’d do the barcode swapping”
Grifter says he used carding, which he defines as identity theft and credit-card fraud, to order goods and have them delivered to abandoned houses.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Grifter EP 157 Details
“carding is what we called it back in the day, which is basically just really identity theft and credit card fraud”
Grifter EXPLOITS elevator card-reader vulnerability
Grifter says he found an exposed pinout under an elevator card reader, shorted the pins with his thumb, and was then able to select different floors.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Grifter EP 157 Details
“underneath it was — there was an open pin out. But I was like, oh, cool, we could probably connect to this and get to any floor we want. I’m like, that’s wild. Then I ran my thumb across the pins, and it shorted out and the light blinked green, and I could tap any floor”
Grifter says he joined the Air Force at age seventeen after graduating high school.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Grifter EP 157 Details
“as soon as I graduated, I went to the Air Force”
Grifter says he became a Defcon goon and remained one from Defcon 10 onward, while also serving in other conference roles.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Grifter EP 157 Details
“At Defcon 10 I was a security goon, and then at Defcon 11 I went and I was a vendor goon. Yeah, and then I’ve been a goon ever since”
Grifter says he eventually began running all the technical operations for Black Hat and later ran its network operations center.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Grifter EP 157 Details
“I eventually started running all the technical operations for Black Hat”
Defcon Groups DEVELOPED_BY Grifter
Grifter says he came up with the idea for Defcon Groups, then worked with Dark Tangent and Russ Rogers to establish its structure and initial chapters.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Grifter EP 157 Details
“I came up with the idea for Defcon Groups”
Grifter AUTHORED Aggressive Network Self-Defense
Grifter says he co-authored Aggressive Network Self-Defense with Dan Kaminsky, Bruce Potter, Pyro, and Chris Hurley, publishing it under the name Neil Wyler, AKA Grifter.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Grifter EP 157 Details
“then we put out a book. But that was the thing about putting out a book, was I was like, am I really just gonna put Grifter on the cover of this thing? I was like, I cannot publish a book and not put my name on it. For me, personally, it was like, I want to see it on the shelf in a library and be like, that one’s mine. So, I made the decision that I was gonna put on there Neil Wyler, AKA Grifter”
Grifter says he recently took a position at Coalfire as vice president of defensive services.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Grifter EP 157 Details
“I recently took a position at a company called Coalfire as the VP of defensive services”
Grifter MEMBER_OF IBM X-Force
Grifter says he previously spent three years with IBM’s X-Force running its global threat-hunting program.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Grifter EP 157 Details
“I was with IBM’s X-Force for three years running their global threat-hunting program”
Grifter MEMBER_OF RSA Security
Grifter says he previously worked for seven years at RSA Security, where he started and ran its global threat-hunting program.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Grifter EP 157 Details
“for the seven years before that, I was at RSA Security where I started and ran their threat-hunting program around the world”
Grifter USES Threat hunting
Grifter describes spending more than a decade conducting threat hunting to find attackers who had bypassed an organization’s security.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Grifter EP 157 Details
“I spent a lot of the last — over a decade at this point really focused on threat hunting”