Author, game designer, technologist, teacher.
Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board.
Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security.
Following back if you have content.
Website:
https://shostack.orgLatest book:
https://threatsbook.comOpsec status: Currently clean
Youtube:
https://youtube.com/shostackPublished at
2026-10-23T08:43:02ZEvent JSON
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