As a teenager, HD says he ran ToneLoc across the entire 512 area code for years.
Explicit Confidence 99% · HD Moore EP 114 Details
“I was running ToneLoc across the entire 512 area code pretty much every night for years.”
Person
person:hd_moore
Also: HD
Security researcher, exploit developer, creator of Metasploit, and founder of Rumble.
Security researcher, exploit developer, creator of Metasploit, and founder of Rumble.
“HD Moore.”
“that’s why HD Moore decided to make Metasploit.”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | USES | ToneLoc | Explicit | 114 |
| outgoing | USES | War dialing | Explicit | 114 |
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | Computer Sciences Corporation | Explicit | 114 |
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | Digital Defense | Explicit | 114 |
| outgoing | USES | Metasploit | Explicit | 114 |
| outgoing | USES | fuzzing | Explicit | 114 |
| outgoing | USES | Karma | Explicit | 114 |
| incoming | DEVELOPED_BY | Metasploit | Explicit | 114 |
| incoming | DISCOVERED_BY | Samba zero-day exploit | Explicit | 114 |
| incoming | DEVELOPED_BY | Rumble | Explicit | 114 |
As a teenager, HD says he ran ToneLoc across the entire 512 area code for years.
Explicit Confidence 99% · HD Moore EP 114 Details
“I was running ToneLoc across the entire 512 area code pretty much every night for years.”
HD Moore USES War dialing
HD used war dialing to find computers accepting inbound connections.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 114 Details
“he started dialing random numbers to see if any would be picked up by a computer.”
HD Moore MEMBER_OF Computer Sciences Corporation
HD says Computer Sciences Corporation gave him his first security-related job.
Explicit Confidence 98% · HD Moore EP 114 Details
“he set me up with a interview with Computer Sciences Corporation”
HD Moore MEMBER_OF Digital Defense
HD says he and the team left CSC and started the startup Digital Defense.
Explicit Confidence 99% · HD Moore EP 114 Details
“So, we took the whole team and started a startup. That was Digital Defense.”
Metasploit DEVELOPED_BY HD Moore
HD is described as deciding to make Metasploit to organize and share his exploits.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 114 Details
“that’s why HD Moore decided to make Metasploit.”
HD Moore USES Metasploit
HD used Metasploit to conduct penetration tests and test systems.
Explicit Confidence 98% · HD Moore EP 114 Details
“we desperately needed this tool to do our job”
“HD even tried attacking it with Metasploit”
Samba zero-day exploit DISCOVERED_BY HD Moore
HD captured the incoming traffic, carved out the exploit, and analyzed the unknown Samba vulnerability.
Explicit Confidence 98% · HD Moore EP 114 Details
“we were able to carve out the initial exploit”
“Did some analysis on it”
HD and colleagues used browser fuzzers to find large numbers of Internet Explorer and ActiveX vulnerabilities.
Explicit Confidence 99% · HD Moore EP 114 Details
“we put together some browser fuzzers”
HD used the Karma toolkit on an airplane to induce wireless clients to connect and reveal password hashes.
Explicit Confidence 98% · HD Moore EP 114 Details
“we thought it’d be fun to run this tool on the actual airplane”
HD says he started Rumble after leaving Rapid7 to work on network discovery.
Explicit Confidence 98% · HD Moore EP 114 Details
“I started my own company about three and a half years ago doing network discovery stuff. So, Rumble”