The Ethical Hacker 2018

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A white-hat hacker imagines the worst

Though professionally he’s a white hat, he tends to wear an actual black bowler hat in public appearances, (some kind of meta-joke, perhaps?), like when he appeared on stage in June at the Money 20/20 conference in Amsterdam. The presentation he gave to a crowd of maybe 500 people was, quite simply, terrifying.

Blockchain is definitely helping us evolve

#Blockchain is really just a backbone, if you will, to the beastie animal that feeds the application that it’s going to run on top of it. And, so, it’s utility versus application, and blockchain is the utility – sort of like the power.

All of us can be hacked. Get over it

“We all know ‘hacking’ as a term, particularly through the press, with a criminal context to it, but within our world, hacking is more about finding a way to make something do something it wasn’t intended to do,” he says.

Eesti Ekspress – Maailmakuulus häkker elab Tallinnas

Keskaegne kolmikhoone Tallinna vanalinnas, Rataskaevu tänav 22. Sajandite eest elas siin kunstnik Michel Sittow. All tegutseb restoran, üleval on uhked korterid. Hoovi viiva raudvärava juures kustutab üks üleni mustas ning ehteis kätega hipsterlik habemik sigareti. Suundume läbi hoovi maja tagumisse tiiba, kus on vaid kaks korterit. Kentsakas lift (põrand seisab paigal, kuid seinad liiguvad) viib ülakorrusele ja avaneb otse luksuslikku elupaika. Mees ütleb, et valis seda hoolikalt: mida nurgatagusem ja vaiksem koht tema serveritele, seda parem.

Hacking Hollywood: Meet the man getting big screen cybersecurity right

You may not know his name or face, but Ralph Echemendia has a lot to do with that. As well as providing security training to the likes of NASA, Google and Microsoft, Echemendia has provided technical consultation for films and TV series where hacking is integral to the plot, like Mr Robot and Snowden.

Forbes MedTech

Experts on the podium and in the audience: On September 25 and 26, the German-language edition of Forbes, in cooperation with IBM and Pfizer, invited a two-day discussion and workshop format, which analyzed the opportunities and risks of data-driven medicine.

Forbes Austria – Digital Health

Und Patientendaten sind besonders sensibel. Die aufkommende Problematik der Daten kennt auch Ralph Echemendia, auch „The Ethical Hacker“ genannt (siehe auch Interview hier).

Forbes – Ethical Hacker

Ralph Echemendia hat aus einer verrufenen Profession eine Karriere gemacht: Er hackt sich in Unternehmen ein, um ihnen zu helfen, ihre Sicherheit zu erhöhen. Unter dem Berufstitel „Ethical Hacker“ hilft der US-Amerikaner aber auch Regisseuren in Hollywood, die Hacker-Community realitätsnah darzustellen.

Passwords are useless

Vienna. In an increasingly digital world, Cyber-Security is more than a fantasy place from a science fiction film. Hackers will paralyze companies and attack personal profiles. What has to be done today to keep these attacks at bay, explains Hacker Ralph Echemendia, in conversation with “Wiener Zeitung.”

What is Truth in a Digital World?

Technology is completely changing the geo political game. It is like a video game now, One where the players get rewarded almost instantaneously. The press and media are the reward, it’s like Pokemon Go. You look for where the most Pokemon are and catch em all. It’s what modern day politics has become. We should do everything in our power to preserve and protect the freedom of open and unfiltered communications worldwide. This is not a nation-specific issue, this is a global one. A net neutral world is essential to our collective evolution.

Miami Hacker Ralph Echemendia Now a Security Consultant for Snowden Movie


The stakes were high this year when Ralph Echemendia began work on the set of Oliver Stone’s latest film, Snowden. The Miamian’s job was to fight off daily attacks from malicious hackers. Born in Cuba, Echemendia was raised in Miami in a neighborhood near the airport.

His first computer was a Commodore 64, which he and a friend used to master the art of “war dialing.” That technique, in which the computer dials random numbers to find a modem, eventually led him to a bulletin board system where he first saw a copy of the “Hacker Manifesto,” a 1986 essay that served as an unofficial guide for budding hackers.

The Hacking of Hollywood

In a town where everyone has been pwned, or soon will be, there’s no such thing as false paranoia. Which brings us to Oliver Stone and his upcoming Snowden biopic.