29 March, 2012: CFT Austin Town Hall!
The Austin Town Hall for Cyber Fast Track will take place on 29 March at the AHA! (Austin Hackers Association) meeting.
Where: Mister Tramps, 8565 Research Blvd, Austin, Texas
When: 7PM - 9PM
RSVP: please send an email to
cyberfasttrack@darpa.mil, Subject:Austin Town Hall
27 January, 2012: ShmooCon 2012 - Peiter "Mudge" Zatko
Almost a year after the first disclosure of the Cyber Fast track program, Mudge discusses the tremendous success the program
has had!
9 December, 2011: CFT Boston Town Hall!
The Boston Town Hall for Cyber Fast Track will take place on 9 December.
Where: Maclaurin Building (Building 3) Room 133 MIT Cambridge, MA
When: 7PM
RSVP: please send an email to
cyberfasttrack@darpa.mil, Subject:Boston Town Hall
18 November, 2011: CFT Seattle Town Hall!
The Seattle Town Hall for Cyber Fast Track will take place on 18 November. At the Town Hall Mudge (Cyber Fast Track Program Manager) will be on hand to describe the program and answer any questions you have like:
What is a good proposal topic?
Who can submit a proposal?
What should a proposal contain?
How long should should the research take?
9 November, 2011: CFT NYC Town Hall!
The first Town Hall for Cyber Fast Track was recently announced. At the Town Hall Mudge (Cyber Fast Track Program Manager) will be on hand to describe the program and answer any questions you have like:
What is a good proposal topic?
Who can submit a proposal?
What should a proposal contain?
How long should should the research take?
Where: NYU-Poly, Six MetroTech Center, Dibner Library Building.
When: 7 pm, Nov 9.
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4 August, 2011: BlackHat 2011 Keynote
How a Hacker Has Helped Influence the Government - and Vice Versa
Mudge, front man for the L0pht, founder of @stake, author of L0phtCrack, and a pioneer in vulnerability discovery and disclosure still calls himself a "hacker". As a senior DoD official working as a Program Manager at DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) he is designing and funding cyber research programs for the U.S. Government. He is additionally working to build areas of aligned interest between the cyber security research community and the government so that both parties can better become resources to each other where appropriate and more articulately convey divergent beliefs and goals in others.
Video: BlackHat 2011 Keynote
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28 January, 2011: ShmooCon 2011 Keynote - Peiter "Mudge" Zatko
ShmooCon and The Shmoo Group are pleased to announce this year's keynote speaker:
Peiter "Mudge" Zatko - The person many people remember as an early pioneer of buffer overflows, full disclosure, security advisories, the front man for 'the L0pht and founder of @Stake… is now a senior DoD official. The inventor of L0phtCrack; AntiSniff; L0phtWatch/Tempwatch; and SLINT (one of the early tools for automating source code vulnerability analysis), He is the hacker that in 1998 told the US Senate the Internet could be taken down in 30 minutes. He firmly believes hackerspaces and the maker community are valuable and underutilized resources for research and ingenuity and that more should be done to encourage these groups.
Video: ShmooCon Keynote
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