Mark Abene
American InfoSec expert and former hacker (born 1972) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mark Abene (born February 23, 1972) is an American information security expert and entrepreneur, originally from New York City. Better known by his pseudonym Phiber Optik, he was once a member of the hacker groups Legion of Doom and Masters of Deception.[1]
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Mark Abene | |
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Born | (1972-02-23) February 23, 1972 (age 52) New York City, New York, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Other names | Phiber Optik |
Occupation(s) | Infosec expert, programmer, cryptographer, entrepreneur |
Known for | Hacking, phreaking, infosec |
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Phiber Optik was a high-profile hacker in the 1980s and early 1990s, appearing in The New York Times, Harper's, Esquire, and in debates and on television. He is an important figure in the 1995 nonfiction book Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace (ISBN 978-0-06-092694-6).