Hacker Profile: Kevin Borders (NSA Red Team to Software Entrepreneur)

A fascinating interview with Kevin Borders, where we discuss his origin story, time spent working on the NSA Red Team, growing a successful online collage business and his current venture, minware!

 

Show Notes

• TI-85 Graphing Calculator
• Number Munchers
• DragonRealms, Gemstone III 
• (current) NSA Student Programs
• Web Tap:  detecting covert web traffic
• University of Michigan PhD in CSE
• Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity
• U.S. Cyber Command
• Kevin's Usenix Security Publications - 
  • Chimera: A Declarative Language for Streaming Network Traffic Analysis + NSA Slides
  • Securing Network Input via a Trusted Input Proxy
  • Towards Quantification of Network-Based Information Leaks via HTTP
• SELinux
• Project Zero
• Kevin Borders on Quora
  • Does the NSA Have Better Engineers than Facebook or Google?
• About minware
• Halting problem
• Blackhat / Defcon
• 100% Prevention - LOL!
• What are some computer hacks that hackers know but most people don't?
• The Most Hated Man on the Internet
• NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit, FORCEDENTRY
• Okta breach 2022
• NIST SP 800-207: Zero Trust Architecture
• SolarWinds Breach
• How to Contribute to Open Source