Chris Hurley

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Bio

Chris Hurley (Roamer) is a Senior Penetration Tester working in the Washington, DC area. He is the founder of the WorldWide WarDrive, a four-year effort by INFOSEC professionals and hobbyists to generate awareness of the insecurities associated with wireless networks and is the lead organizer of the DEF CON WarDriving Contest.

Although he primarily focuses on penetration testing these days, Chris also has extensive experience performing vulnerability assessments, forensics, and incident response. Chris has spoken at several security conferences and published numerous whitepapers on a wide range of INFOSEC topics. Chris is the lead author of WarDriving: Drive, Detect, Defend, and a contributor to Aggressive Network Self-Defense, InfoSec Career Hacking, OS X for Hackers at Heart, and Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity.