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Jeff Moss (born January 1, 1975), also known as Dark Tangent, is an American hacker, computer and internet security expert who founded the Black Hat and DEF CON computer security conferences.
DEF CON was founded in 1993, by then 18-year-old Jeff Moss as a farewell party for his friend, a fellow hacker and member of "Platinum Net", a FidoNet protocol based hacking network from Canada.
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May 20, 2021 · Jeff Moss was born in California, United States in January 1975. He is a hacker, computer, and Internet security expert who founded the Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences.
Aug 3, 2011 · Jeff Moss, aka Dark Tangent, founded DEF CON and Black Hat; Both conferences are for hackers and computer-security professionals; Moss says hackers can help make the Internet and computers safer
He was named as chief security officer for ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. In that position, he was responsible for one of the most important high-value targets in the entire Internet infrastructure, the root DNS system.
Aug 12, 2023 · Mr. Moss is an internet security expert and is the founder of Both the Black Hat Briefings and DEF CON Hacking conferences.
