http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/man-who-exposed-target-security-689782
By Borys Kit
The Hollywood Reporter
3/19/2014
Sony has picked up the rights to the New York Times article "Reporting
From the Web’s Underbelly," which focused on cyber security blogger Brian
Krebs. Krebs, with his site KrebsonSecurity.com, was the first person to
expose the credit card breach at Target that shook the retail world in
December.
Richard Wenk, the screenwriter who wrote Sony's high-testing big-screen
version of The Equalizer, is on board to write what is being envisioned as
a cyber-thriller inspired by the article and set in the high-stakes
international criminal world of cyber-crime.
Escape Artists' Steve Tisch, Todd Black and Jason Blumenthal are producing
as are Todd Hoffman and Richard Arlook. David Bloomfield will executive
produce.
Nicole Perlroth's New York Times article told of Krebs, who has the
appearance of a mild-mannered accountant but writes with a 12-gauge
shotgun by his side, is an expert in the digital underground and is on a
first-name basis with some of the biggest cyber-criminals in the world,
many of whom are Russian.
[...]
--
Find the best IT Security talent without breaking your recruiting budget.
Jobs cross-posted to Simply Hired, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Hot InfoSec Jobs - http://www.hotinfosecjobs.com/
