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American privacy and security researcher, computer hacker, whistleblower and entrepreneur
For the surname Kamkar, see Kamkar.
Samy Kamkar
Kamkar speaking at the Black Hat conference in 2010
Born
(1985-12-10) December 10, 1985 (age 38)
Nationality
American
Occupation(s)
Privacy and security researcher, computer hacker, whistleblower and entrepreneur
Known for
Releasing the Samy worm, Evercookie, SkyJack, and iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile phone tracking research
Website
samy.pl
Samy Kamkar (born December 10, 1985)[1] is an American privacy and security researcher, computer hacker and entrepreneur. At the age of 16, he dropped out of high school.[2] One year later, he co-founded Fonality, a unified communications company based on open-source software, which raised over $46 million in private funding.[3] In 2005, he created and released the fastest spreading virus of all time,[4] the MySpace worm Samy, and was subsequently raided by the United States Secret Service under the Patriot Act.[5] He also created SkyJack, a custom drone which hacks into any nearby Parrot drones allowing them to be controlled by its operator [6] and created the Evercookie, which appeared in a top-secret NSA document[7] revealed by Edward Snowden and on the front page of The New York Times.[8] He has also worked with The Wall Street Journal, and discovered the illicit mobile phone tracking where the Apple iPhone, Google Android and Microsoft Windows Phone mobile devices transmit GPS and Wi-Fi information to their parent companies. His mobile research led to a series of class-action lawsuits against the companies and a privacy hearing on Capitol Hill.[9] Kamkar has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.
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^Jeremiah Grossman (April 2006). "Cross-Side Scripting Worms and Viruses: The Impending Thread and the Best Defense" (PDF). Whitehat Security. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-01-04.
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^"'Tor Stinks' presentation". The Guardian.
^"New Web Code Draws Concern Over Privacy Risks". The New York Times. October 10, 2010. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
^"Google and Apple on Capitol Hill for high-tech privacy hearing". CNN.
SamyKamkar (born December 10, 1985) is an American privacy and security researcher, computer hacker and entrepreneur. At the age of 16, he dropped out...
University, Shiraz SamyKamkar, American privacy and security researcher, computer hacker, whistleblower and entrepreneur Mariam Kamkar, Professor in Software...
intentionally deleted cookies on the clients' browser storage. It was created by SamyKamkar in 2010 to demonstrate the possible infiltration from the websites that...
intercepted can be vulnerable to falsification. In 2015, it was reported that SamyKamkar had built an inexpensive electronic device about the size of a wallet...
SkyJack is an unmanned aerial vehicle created by SamyKamkar which specifically seeks out other Parrot drones and hijacks them through their wireless...
Jonathan James Joybubbles (Joe Engressia, Highrise Joe) Kyle Milliken SamyKamkar Karl Koch (hagbard) Alan Kotok Jan Krissler Patrick K. Kroupa (Lord Digital)...
Der Spiegel. Retrieved 8 November 2012. "mapping MAC addresses – samykamkar". Samy.pl. Retrieved 8 November 2012. Wei-Meng Lee (27 May 2004). "Wireless...
locking and unlocking, and starting the engine. The security researcher SamyKamkar has demonstrated a device that intercepts signals from keyless-entry...
criminals from exploiting this vulnerability. In 2015, it was reported that SamyKamkar had built an inexpensive electronic device about the size of a wallet...
Texas. June 2015. Retrieved April 4, 2016. "SamyKamkar: MagSpoof - credit card/magstripe spoofer". samy.pl. Retrieved December 2, 2016. Magnetic Stripe...
Facts on File Inc. p. 416. ISBN 0-8160-4978-5. "MySpace speaks about SamyKamkar's sentencing". TechSpot. January 31, 2007. Retrieved December 27, 2010...
technologist and computer scientist. Neil Kadisha, CEO of Omninet Capital, LLC. SamyKamkar, entrepreneur, computer hacker, and privacy & security researcher on...
disabling, and remote control services of the vehicle. On July 30, 2015, SamyKamkar introduced OwnStar - a small electronic device that could be concealed...
description of an inexpensive prototype device designed and built by SamyKamkar to exploit this technique appeared in 2015. The device about the size...
third party involvement (autonomous NAT traversal) was developed by SamyKamkar on January 22, 2010 and released in the open source software pwnat, and...
have also been problems with Oracle's Java. Evercookies, created by SamyKamkar, are JavaScript-based applications which produce cookies in a web browser...
at McAfee G. Mark Hardy, president of National Security Corporation SamyKamkar, a prolific American programmer, freelance security researcher, and hacker...
Times. Archived from the original on 2012-07-08. Retrieved 2012-07-08. Kamkar, Samy (2015-01-13). "KeySweeper A keystroke logger that targets Microsoft keyboards...
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