Cris Thomas (also known as Space Rogue) is an American cybersecurity researcher, white hat hacker, and award winning[1][2] best selling[3] author.

[11] [12] Thomas continued a career in Cyber Security Research at @Stake,[13] Guardent, Trustwave (Spiderlabs),[14] Tenable,[15] and IBM (X-Force Red).

[16] Selected to serve as a panelist during a 2016 Atlantic Council cyber risk discussion series,[6] and a webinar speaker for the National Science Foundation's WATCH series,[17][18] Thomas has embraced a public advocacy role as a cyber security subject-matter expert (SME) and pundit, granting interviews and contributing articles[5] to educate the public about security concerns and relative risk.

[36] The Whacked Mac Archives was an FTP download site managed by Thomas with the world's largest collection of Apple Macintosh hacking tools.

[42] The publication grew, eventually supporting paid advertising and an audience that included technology journalists and companies with an interest in cybersecurity.

[47] Hacker News Network in 2018 redirects to spacerogue.net[48][49] In 2013, Thomas created the project CyberSquirrel1 as a satirical demonstration of the relative risk of Cyberwarfare attacks on critical infrastructure elements such as the North American electrical grid.

As the 2015-2016 alleged Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections unfolded, public and media interest in hacking and hackers increased.

[61] [62] Written as a personal memoir, the book detailed his childhood growing up in Maine, how he discovered the online world of BBS’s and met the other members of the hacker collective L0pht Heavy Industries.

The book covers how the L0pht released security vulnerability information, created L0phtcrack, gained media recognition, and testified in front of Congress in 1998.