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“ Generally , the reaction has kind of been ‘ you have to be kidding me , this is crazy ’”
Alissa Knight , Cybersecurity influencer , hacker , industry analyst , author
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A lissa Knight has many talents . Started hacking at the age of 13 ? Check . Arrested for hacking a government network at 17 , only to subsequently work with the US intelligence community in cyber warfare ( presumably to keep her on the right side )? Check . Serial entrepreneur now on her third company sale and exit – the first being sold when she was 20 ? Check ? Hacking into a bank ’ s internal network through its CCTV cameras in the parking lot ? Yes , that really did happen .
Most recently , Knight had the pleasure of addressing an eager Money20 / 20 USA audience comprised of visitors from the global financial services sector . She was there to tell them that , as part of a recent research project , she had hacked 29 of 30 mobile financial services apps from some of the biggest players in banking , stock
DECEMBER 2019