{"id":185083,"date":"2026-02-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/higinio-ochoa-hacktivist-turned-white-hat-on-the-cybercrime-magazine-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:40:09","slug":"higinio-ochoa-hacktivist-turned-white-hat-on-the-cybercrime-magazine-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/higinio-ochoa-hacktivist-turned-white-hat-on-the-cybercrime-magazine-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Higinio Ochoa, Hacktivist Turned White Hat, On The Cybercrime Magazine Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/higinio-ochoa-hacktivist-turned-white-hat-on-the-cybercrime-magazine-podcast\/\">Higinio Ochoa, Hacktivist Turned White Hat, On The Cybercrime Magazine Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/higinio-ochoa-hacktivist-turned-white-hat-on-the-cybercrime-magazine-podcast\/\">https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/higinio-ochoa-hacktivist-turned-white-hat-on-the-cybercrime-magazine-podcast\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-06 09:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cybersecurityventures.com\">cybersecurityventures.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points.<br \/>\nOn\u00a0Jun. 25, 2012, 31-year-old Higinio O. Ochoa, III of Dallas, Texas, the self-proclaimed associate of computer hacker groups known as \u201cAnonymous\u201d and \u201cCabinCr3w\u201d pleaded guilty, admitted that in Feb. 2012, he hacked into computers belonging to the Texas Department of Public Safety; Alabama Department of Public Safety, Houston County, Alabama; and the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association.<br \/>\nOchoa further admitted that he unlawfully downloaded personal and confidential information, deleted data, engaged in website defacement, made stolen information available to others, and boasted about his criminal activities online. He was\u00a0sentenced to 27 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release.<br \/>\nNow, Ochoa (aka w0rmer), 45, refers to himself as a \u201cformer hacktivist turned seasoned cybersecurity professional\u201d and his resume includes 20 years of experience as an ethical hacker, Linux administrator, programmer, penetration tester, and speaker.<br \/>\nOchoa is a member of the white-hat hacker group Sakura Samurai.\u00a0He recently came on the Cybercrime Magazine Podcast to discuss his journey, including the transition from being a high-profile target of the FBI to a cybersecurity professional, the culture of hacktivism, and more.<br \/>\nListen to the Podcast Episode<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higinio Ochoa, Hacktivist Turned White Hat, On The Cybercrime Magazine Podcast https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/higinio-ochoa-hacktivist-turned-white-hat-on-the-cybercrime-magazine-podcast\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-06&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/photo11.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24,35],"class_list":["post-185083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity","tag-hacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185085,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185083\/revisions\/185085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}