Jack Cable (software developer)

Jack Cable
Employer
AwardsTime Magazine's 25 Most Influential Teens (2018)[1]
Websitecablej.io 

Jack Cable (born February 18, 2000) is an American computer security researcher and software developer. He is the CEO and co-founder of Corridor, an AI security startup.[2] He is best known for his participation in bug bounty programs, including placing first in the U.S. Department of Defense's Hack the Air Force challenge in 2017.[3] He previously served as a Senior Technical Advisor at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

For his work, Cable was named one of Time Magazine's 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018.[1] Cable has spoken on vulnerability disclosure and election security at conferences including the DEF CON Voting Village,[4] Black Hat Briefings,[5] and the Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything Festival.[6]

Early life and education

Cable grew up in the Chicago suburbs and attended New Trier High School.[7] He began programming in middle school and discovered bug bounty programs at the age of 15 after finding a vulnerability in a financial website.[3][8] Cable received a B.S. in computer science from Stanford University[9] in 2021.

Career

While in college, Cable founded a cybersecurity consulting firm, Lightning Security.[1] Cable began working for the Pentagon's Defense Digital Service in the summer of 2018.[7] In 2019, Cable helped launch Stanford's bug bounty program, one of the first in higher education.[10]

After discovering and reporting severe vulnerabilities in several states' electoral infrastructure, Cable joined the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the summer of 2020.[11] There, Cable served as a technical advisor to help protect state election systems against foreign hacking attempts.[12]

Cable joined cybersecurity consulting firm Krebs Stamos Group in 2021 as a Security Architect.[13] Also in 2021, Cable identified a workaround in a ransomware payment system to save victims $27,000,[14] for which he was acknowledged by U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.[15] Cable launched Ransomwhere, a crowdsourced ransomware payment tracker that aims to address the ransomware visibility problem.[16][17]

Cable rejoined CISA in 2023 to help lead the agency's Secure by Design initiative.[18]

Publications and articles

References

  1. ^ a b c "TIME's 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018". Time Magazine. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  2. ^ Sabin, Sam (2025-08-05). "A new AI security startup wants to tackle insecure code — and it's hired a major name to help". Axios. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  3. ^ a b "This 17-year-old hacked the Air Force". NPR Marketplace. August 10, 2017. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  4. ^ "DEF CON 27 Voting Village Report" (PDF). DEF CON. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  5. ^ "Black Hat CISO Summit". Black Hat. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  6. ^ "WSJ Future Of Everything Festival - Speakers". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  7. ^ a b "How a New Trier Student Became an Internationally Known Ethical Hacker". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Meet the 17-Year-Old Who Hacked the U.S. Air Force". Nextgov. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  9. ^ Khan, Aleena (2021-12-22). "Announcing our 2022 Fellows". TechCongress. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  10. ^ "Stanford Bug Bounty Launch". Stanford University IT. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  11. ^ "Putin Is Well on His Way to Stealing the Next Election". The Atlantic. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  12. ^ "Meet the 20-year-old super-hacker who was the youngest member of the Pentagon's 'SWAT team of nerds' and is now fighting for election security with Homeland Security". Business Insider. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  13. ^ "Ransomware attack struck between 800 and 1,500 businesses, says company at center of hack". The Washington Post. July 6, 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  14. ^ "Stanford student finds glitch in ransomware payment system to save victims $27,000". CyberScoop. April 22, 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  15. ^ @secmayorkas (April 23, 2021). "Great work by @jackhcable! From disrupting #ransomware schemes to working with @CISAgov to #Protect2020, you are a tremendous example of how even a single person can make a difference" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  16. ^ "This crowdsourced payments tracker wants to solve the ransomware visibility problem". TechCrunch. July 9, 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  17. ^ "Jack Cable, Stanford student and cyber whiz, aims to crowdsource ransomware details". CyberScoop. July 9, 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  18. ^ @CISAgov (January 19, 2023). "We're delighted to welcome top cyber talent like senior technical advisor Jack Cable to the team!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  19. ^ Cable, Jack. "Every Computer Science Degree Should Require a Course in Cybersecurity". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  20. ^ Cable, Jack. "Why the U.S. government needs you to hack it". Fast Company. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  21. ^ Cable, Jack. "Preventing Ransomware Attacks at Scale". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
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