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Chris Rock
Cyber Mercenary & Co-founder of SIEMonster
- Cybersecurity
- Entrepreneur
- đź“ŤVictoria, Australia
Chris Rock is a Cyber Mercenary who has worked in the Middle East, US and Asia for the last 30 years working for both government and private organizations.
He is the Chief Information Security Officer and co-founder of SIEMonster.
Chris has presented three times at the largest hacking conference in the world, DEFCON in Las Vegas on controversial vulnerabilities including:
- How hackers could create fake people and kill them using vulnerabilities in the Birth and Death Registration systems around the world.
- How cyber mercenaries can overthrow a government working with coup mercenary Simon Mann.
- How cyber mercenaries can bypass modern day Jammers using the earth as an antenna to trigger an IED at 2kHz.
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Chris Rock
Cyber Mercenary & Co-founder of SIEMonster
- đź“ŤVictoria, Australia
- Cybersecurity
- Founder
Chris Rock is a Cyber Mercenary who has worked in the Middle East, US and Asia for the last 30 years working for both government and private organizations.
He is the Chief Information Security Officer and co-founder of SIEMonster.
Chris has presented three times at the largest hacking conference in the world, DEFCON in Las Vegas on controversial vulnerabilities including:
- How hackers could create fake people and kill them using vulnerabilities in the Birth and Death Registration systems around the world.
- How cyber mercenaries can overthrow a government working with coup mercenary Simon Mann.
- How cyber mercenaries can bypass modern day Jammers using the earth as an antenna to trigger an IED at 2kHz.
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In the space of less than an hour, Rock (who is the CEO of Kustodian, an Australian computer security company) exposed the terrifyingly porous patchwork of protocols governments around the world rely on to officially declare a person dead — or living. He conjured a dystopian world of fake babies whose “burner identities” could be used to rake in millions, and revenge “killings” that take place remotely, by digitally declaring your enemies dead.
Imagine trying to get your driver’s licence or passport renewed, only to be told you are dead.
Australian computer security researcher Chris Rock, of Melbourne-based IT security firm Kustodian, has shown this scenario to be entirely possible thanks to a major flaw in the way several state governments register deaths in Australia.
Chris Rock, an independent security researcher, is pissed that the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, is more afraid of ISIS than hackers. He’s hoping to change that by teaching hackers how to overthrow governments.
“I don’t want to live in a world where ISIS is scarier than hackers,” Rock began. Rock, who runs his own computer security company, laid out how to stage a coup using an army of cyber mercenaries during his talk at the DEFCON hacking conference is Las Vegas.
The cybersecurity expert Chris Rock is an unconventional killer. At this year’s Defcon hacking conference—one of the largest conferences of its kind, attracting more than 6,000 hackers and security experts from around the globe—the Australian information-security researcher demonstrated how to manipulate online death-certification systems in order to declare a living person legally dead. Potential motivations for hackers, he explained, range from plain revenge to financial gain in the form of life-insurance payouts.
Cyber mercenary activity—in which geopolitical states sponsor hackers and private firms to wage acts of cyber offence on other states, organizations and individual citizens—has been on the rise for at least a decade, though the wider public is only now just starting to understand its grave implications. To get a better handle on the current state of global cybersecurity affairs, we talked to professional hacker Chris Rock, CEO and founder of SIEMonster.
