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Gone Too Soon: Dan Kaminsky, Hacker Hero Gone Too Soon: Dan Kaminsky, Hacker Hero
The cybersecurity researcher community has been in mourning this past week as legendary hacker Dan Kaminsky tragically passed away on April 23.
Kaminsky was a well known and widely loved figure, for his character, his skills and his research. He was a fixture in the security conference scene, in particular at the annual Black Hat and DEFCON security conferences where he was legendary for numerous discoveries and research. Kaminsky will forever be remembered for the flaw in DNS that he discovered in 2008 and was able to rally the entire technology industry together to literally save the internet as we know it.
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Dan Kaminsky in an interview conducted at the 2016 RSA Conference in San Francisco (Photo: ISMG)
The information security community is mourning the loss of Dan Kaminsky, the renowned security researcher who died last week at age 42.
Tributes to Kaminsky have been flooding social media, praising not just his keen intellect and passion for technology and security, but also his generous nature, approachability and dedication to teaching. He s remembered for how pivotal he was in helping to protect the internet and leading by example when coordinating vulnerability reporting and mitigation.