In this episode of the Cyber Distortion Podcast, we sit down with Dustin Dykes, better known as Wirefall, the founder of the Dallas Hackers Association (DHA). Join us as we dive into the origins of DHA, its impact on the cybersecurity community, and Wirefall's journey in the hacking world.

Dustin is a Tribe of Hackers and Art of Intrusion Contributor, a public speaker, an improv and stand up student and performer, and of course, a technical guru! He is a local security community advocate. Founder of the Dallas Hackers Association and former board member of BSides DFW and TheLab.MS.

He is a military and law enforcement veteran with 25+ years of security consulting experience focused on attack and penetration testing.

We also get into the other really cool business that Dustin is a part of, Telesploit. The Telesploit solution enables organizations to remotely perform internal vulnerability assessments and penetration tests leveraging resources located anywhere in the world.

Whether you're a seasoned hacker or just curious about the culture, this episode is packed with insights you won’t want to miss!

Jason Popillion is a CISSP and serves as a CIO/CTO of a SaaS company and Kevin Pentecost is a CISSP, CISM, CEH, CPT, MPCS, MCSE, CCA, ITIL-F and serves as the Information Security Director for a Manufacturing company.

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Wirefall’s LinkedIn Profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wirefall/

Wirefalls’s Twitter (X) Profile:

https://twitter.com/DHAhole

DHA (Dallas Hackers Association) (X) Profile:

https://twitter.com/Dallas_Hackers

Telesploit:

https://www.telesploit.com/

Telesploit ‘X’ Profile:

https://twitter.com/telesploit

Telesploit LinkedIn Profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/telesploit/

OTHER D/FW Hacker Groups:

DC214 ‘X’ Profile:

https://twitter.com/DC214DFW

DC940 ‘X’ Profile:

https://twitter.com/DCG940

Hack FtW’s Profile:

https://twitter.com/Hack_FtW