Former LulzSec Member Employed by Payment Security Vendor

[frogboy]

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http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/former-lulzsec-member-employed/

Former LulzSec member “tFlow” has been hired by payments and cyber security group Secure Trading as an advisor.



Under his real name Mustafa Al Bassam, he will act as a security advisor on the company’s technology and services, including its new blockchain research project codenamed ‘Trustery’, which aims to commercialise blockchain technologies to improve the visibility and security of online payments.



Al Bassam will join the company part-time while continuing his computer science degree at King’s College London, he was approached to help the company develop and commercialise next generation payment innovations such as Bitcoin and blockchain.



As tFlow, Al Bassam was in charge of maintenance and security of the group's website and was 16 at the of his arrest in July 2011.



“Working with Secure Trading I want to develop tools to make online payments safer,” he said. “The financial services industry has traditionally been a few years behind the curve when it comes to security practices. Secure Trading is trying to get ahead with blockchain technology and create modern, secure and fit for purpose services for its customers.”



Kobus Paulsen, Chairman of Secure Trading, said: “There are very few experts in blockchain technology, and we’re very lucky to have Mustafa on board. By developing this project we hope to use his skills and create technology to help make the world of ecommerce safer for thousands of customers.”

Full Article. Former LulzSec member to work on payment technology

 

[Soulbound]

5 years later and he gets employed on the area he committed "insert correct word here". this proves one thing: people do change so people always deserve a second chance.

 

[jamescv7]

People should aware to remove any misconception from a person who has a background on hacking because usually they automatically give impression to be untrusted and questionnable. Its already a good training experience to trace and found a vulnerability to a software or product without any references.