Ethical hackers have to “pretend and think like a criminal” as attackers think in the opposite way that a defender thinks. Speaking at Check Point Experience in Vienna, ethical hacker and Cygenta co-founder Freaky Clown (FC) said that he is driven by trust issues, and stated he “trusts nothing unless I understand it fully, and I untrust everything to the nth degree, and then I trust it.” FC pointed to security companies, saying you “cannot trust them to create secure software” and referenced cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, which have been present for the past 20 years.

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