Mike Godfrey (businessman)
Mike Godfrey is a tech investor and CEO who is most known for INSINIA Cyber Security.[1] and Smart Plant Systems[2].
Godfrey has appeared in a number of TV productions including the Channel 5 Documentary, “How to Stop Nuisance Calls”.[3]
Cyber security[edit]
In 2018 Godfrey and INSINIA released research explaining how Industrial Control Systems, such as those used on both National Infrastructure and major manufacturing, could be exploited by hackers with a small device and “4 lines of code”[4].
Twitter hack[edit]
Later that year, in December 2018, INSINIA and Godfrey again made the headlines for the alleged “hacking” of celebrity Twitter accounts, including UK television presenters Louis Theroux and Eamonn Holmes[5] [6] [7] [8], among others. Godfrey and INSINIA were widely criticised for the stunt, which was branded "cavalier and unethical". Godfrey maintained that INSINIA had not broken the law and had acted both reasonably and ethically[9]. This attack was apparently made possible by spoofing telephone numbers, a technical vulnerability which Mr. Godfrey claimed was leveraged by using "a text spoofing tool I made in school which is almost 15 years old. It's 2018, this shouldn't be possible". Godfrey had demonstrated this tool to Eamonn Holmes on his TalkRADIO show months before[10]. During the attack, INSINIA claimed it controlled almost 2,000 Twitter accounts. Godfrey provided interviews to a number of news outlets and spoke about the hack at the hacking / security event “DEF CON” in Las Vegas in 2019[11].
Media[edit]
Mike Godfrey and INSINIA have appeared in a number of news outlets including the BBC.[12], Channel 4[13], Channel 5[3], LBC[14], TalkRadio[15], The Daily Mail[16], The Telegraph[17], The Mirror[8] and The Sun[18]
“The Death of the Gods” - Carl Miller - William Heinemann - Acknowledged as “Mike the hacker” on page 371 and appears on page 48 as “a hacker friend” and others as “Mike the hacker at DEF CON”.[19]
References[edit]
- ↑ "INSINIA". insinia. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ "HOME". SmartPlantSystems. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "How To Stop Your Nuisance Calls". Channel 5. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ "Pwned with '4 lines of code': Researchers warn SCADA systems are still hopelessly insecure". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ "Vigilante hackers explain how and why they took over celebrity and journalist Twitter accounts". The Independent. 2018-12-27. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ "Security firm hijacks high-profile Twitter accounts". BBC News. 2018-12-28. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ Waterson, Jim (2018-12-28). "Louis Theroux among those hit by Twitter hack exposing security flaw". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Best, Shivali (2018-12-28). "Louis Theroux's Twitter account is hacked - but there's a very good reason why". mirror. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ "Company that hijacked Eamonn Holmes and Louis Theroux Twitter accounts denies breaking law". Sky News. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ Call Spoofing with Eamonn Holmes on TalkRADIO. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ "DEF CON® 27 Hacking Conference Speakers". www.defcon.org. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ "O2 customer data sold on dark net". BBC News. 2016-07-25. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- ↑ INSINIA - NHS Cyber Attack – via YouTube. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Could Twitter's home working policy have made it easier for hackers?". LBC. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- ↑ INSINIA speaks to Eamon Holmes on TalkRADIO about Dixons Carphone Hack. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- ↑ Duell, Mark (2019-11-20). "Ethical hacker dupes writer into handing over his personal details". Mail Online. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- ↑ "Flaw in Chips Leaves UK Vulnerable". The Telegraph. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Secret info of TalkTalk users on sale for £1.50". The Sun. 2015-11-01. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ The Death of the Gods. William Heinneman. 2019. Search this book on
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