Charlie Miller (security researcher)

American computer security researcher

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Charles Miller is a computer security researcher with the consulting firm Independent Security Evaluators. Prior to his current employment, he spent five years working for the National Security Agency. Miller demonstrated his hacks publicly on products manufactured by Apple. In 2008 he won a $10,000 cash prize at the hacker conference Pwn2Own in Vancouver Canada for being the first to find a critical bug in the ultrathin MacBook Air—deploying an exploit in 2 minutes. The next year, he won $5,000 for cracking Safari in under 10 seconds. In 2009 he also demonstrated an SMS processing vulnerability that allowed for complete compromise of the Apple iPhone and denial-of-service attacks on other phones. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame.