Joseph is a journalist covering cybersecurity, the digital underground, and the surveillance industry for VICE's Motherboard.
Hacks and large scale data dumps are increasingly important story avenues for journalists. But what actually happens when a criminal hacker approaches a journalist, and how does the reporter then verify that data and decide what to publish? This talk will discuss that behind-the-scenes dynamic, pulling from the speaker's own experience with breaches at Silicon Valley giants, government departments, and every sort of target in between.
