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Malicious Life Podcast: The Life and Exploits of Albert Gonzales Part 2

Written by Malicious Life Podcast | Jul 12, 2021 12:06:30 PM

In this second installment of the series (listen to Albert Gonzales Part 1 here), Gonzales is working with the Secret Service and apparently doing an outstanding job. He was such a good employee, in fact, that they had him doing seminars for staff and speaking at government-run conferences. At one point he met personally with the (then) Director of the Secret Service where Gonzales gave a presentation and even got to shake the Director’s hand.

It seemed like a remarkable redemption story, but Gonzalez went from stealing millions of credit cards to quarterbacking the largest cybercrime bust in U.S history - and then just fell back into his old cybercriminal ways.

We are joined by special guest Sherri Davidoff, CEO of LMG Security, who has skillfully researched the fascinating life and exploits of Albert Gonzales, as detailed in her book Data Breaches - Crisis and Opportunity - check it out…