Anthony Zboralski
{{Short description|French businessperson}}
{{COI|date=March 2017}}
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| birth_place = Martigues, France
| citizenship = French, British
| field = Computer science
| known_for = security, attention economy
| website={{URL|http://zboralski.net}}
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Anthony Zboralski is a French hacker, artist and internet entrepreneur.{{Cite web|url=http://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/itws/011107_it_vaubansys_zboralski.shtml|title=Anthony C. Zboralski, Vauban Systems: "Quand nous sécurisons une entreprise, nous développons des scénarii techniques mais aussi humains"|website=www.journaldunet.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/17/satellite_tv_hacking/|title=Satellite-hacking boffin sees the unseeable|first=Dan|last=Goodin|website=www.theregister.com}}
Computer hacking
In 1994, Zboralski social engineered the FBI to connect to the internet and set up teleconferences with other hackers. Over a period of four months, Zboralski posed as its legal attaché in Paris, Thomas Baker, costing the FBI $250,000.{{Cite web|title = Court sentences French hacker who used computer FBI Network|url = https://apnews.com/1997/Court-sentences-French-hacker-who-used-computer-FBI-network|website = The Associated Press News Archives|access-date = 2017-03-13}}
Zboralski was part of a group of hackers called w00w00.{{Cite web|title = Inside The Billion-Dollar Hacker Club|url = https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/02/w00w00/|website = TechCrunch|access-date = 2016-01-27|first = Steve|last = O'Hear}} He went by the handles "gaius" and "kugutsumen".{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/reader-events/2014/jul/18/speakers-at-observer-ideas-2014|title=Who will be speaking at Observer Ideas 2014|author=Guardian Staff|date=July 18, 2014|website=the Guardian}}
Career
From 2011 to 2013, Zboralski worked as a managing consultant for IOActive. In 2014, Zboralski co-founded Belua Systems Limited.{{Cite web|title = Who will be speaking at Observer Ideas 2014 - Anthony Zboralski, Cyber Security Expert and former hacker|url = https://www.theguardian.com/reader-events/2014/jul/18/speakers-at-observer-ideas-2014|website = The Guardian|access-date = 2017-03-13}}
= Television =
Surfez Couvert was a TV show co-written by Antoine Rivière and Zboralski in which Zboralski offered practical recommendations on how to protect our "life 2.0". It began airing on Game One in 2013 and was co-produced by Flair Production and MTV Networks France.{{Cite web|title = Surfez couvert|url = http://television.telerama.fr/tele/magazine/surfez-couvert,10735398,emission50980618.php|website = television.telerama.fr|access-date = 2016-01-26}}
See also
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Category:French businesspeople