Remember Hector "Sabu" Monsegur? He appears to be the youngest full-time member of Rhino Security Labs (RSL), a Seattle-based company specializing in pen-testing and cyber-security.
Monsegur will serve on the team to evaluate and research. According to an RSL blog post, "Hector has focused on the most technically challenging security engagements, developing zeroday vulnerabilities and other innovative solutions."
The company reports that much of this work is already underway, and that it will publish the work of Monsegur by the end of the year.
For those who don't know Monsegur is a controversial figure in the cyber security scene due to his role in the hacking group LulzSec, the most notorious group of Anonymous, which he founded and led sometime before 2011.
The FBI secretly arrested Monsegur in 2011, and since then he has served as an informant for over ten months, helping service security to track down several of his colleagues from the LulzSec group and other hacktivists from Anonymous.
Due to his cooperation with the FBI, a judge sentenced him to seven months in prison he had already served. So Monsgur stepped out of court, but he was banned from being online for two years.
After the end of the ban Monsegur chose to enter the field of security as an independent researcher. But due to his past action as a member of LulzSec, many Companies they avoided working with him. So Rhino Security Labs thought to take advantage of the opportunity.
