Security Researcher Alleges Assault by Casino Vendor for Vulnerability Disclosure
Like many white hat hackers, Dylan Wheeler admits that as a teenager he got his hands a little dirty and his hat, a little black – in his case eventually fleeing Australia from local authorities and the FBI after being accused of stealing more than $100 million-worth of intellectual property, including specifications for an Xbox One games system used to train US soldiers to fly Apache helicopters.
Slipping out of the country via the Czech Republic and now based in the UK, he turned to responsible vulnerability disclosure (helping identify security issues through “ethical hacking” and, if asked, helping to fix them) and does contractual security auditing work via his company “Day After Exploit Ltd”. The teenage shenanigans are behind him, he told Computer Business Review.
“[The Xbox issue] has been ironed out; I was a minor and it’s no longer active in the courts”. Responsible disclosure however, hasn’t been going too smoothly this week, despite his best efforts and some considerable patience.
