CEO and Founder of HypaSec NL, former Distinguished Chair for the Middle East Institute’s Cyber Program. Chris is a polyhacker, pwning everything on land, space, sea, air with a wee bit of diplomacy, international politics and a splash of espionage. She advises big names like the United Nations, multiple governments, militaries, television and documentary technical advisor and expert on cyber warfare. Author of Hack The World With OSINT and other books. A USAF military veteran, both aircrew, and Space Command. She defends critical infrastructure and handles country level cyber incidents, cyberwarfare, and cyber espionage. Nothing is crazier than nation state crazy. 

Previous to HypaSec, she reconnected Saudi Aramco international business operations & established digital security after the world’s most devastating cyberwarfare attack and kicked terrorist a$$. She lives and breathes IT/IOT/ICS SCADA control systems security. Using her unique technical skills, honed starting age six programming and busted hacking into the DOJ at age 10.

The JARM’ing Adventures of a Weaponized Security Tool

Welcome to a journey involving geopolitics, code leaks and naughty adversaries turning security tools meant to protect into weapons of cyber war. Whilst researching for new tools and techniques utilized by a state sponsored, sanctioned propaganda network. Using various system OSINT tools, a pattern in the fingerprint of some of their malicious servers emerged. By JARM, a way to fingerprint system security configuration. Matching a security tool, I’d demoed a few times in the past. A tool that if weaponized could be brutal. Join me as I take you through the tools, risks, attempts at reporting and how to hunt other malicious systems used by sophisticated adversaries. You too can identify propaganda networks and weaponized tools using OSINT and JARM fingerprints.