Charlie Miller
(Credit: Elinor Mills/CNET) Twitter is creating a security dream team. Charlie Miller, famous for his hacks on the iPhone and MacBook Air, finding holes in iOS and devising ways to hijack Android phones with NFC, will be starting his new job at the microblogging company next week.
Miller will be working with encryption expert Moxie Marlinspike, who was hired by Twitter last year when the firm hired the encryption expert.
"Monday I start on the security team at Twitter. Looking forward to working with a great team there!" Miller tweeted this morning.
Miller told CNET today that he can't talk about his new job until he gets settled in it.
After getting a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Notre Dame, Miller worked for five years as a "global network exploitation analyst" for the National Security Agency. He then worked at a financial-services firm and then at Independent Security Evaluators and Accuvant.
But it's his hacking and penetration testing skills that have earned him a reputation. Miller has highlighted numerous security flaws within Apple software over the years. One of his most high-profile discoveries was a vulnerability in the mobile version of Safari in 2007, shortly after the first ... [Read more]
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