Charlie Miller, one of the more respected and accomplished security researchers in the industry, is leaving Twitter’s security team after three years.
Miller said on Monday that he is leaving the company at the end of this week and that he plans to announce his new job next week.
Miller joined Twitter in 2012, shortly after Moxie Marlinspike, another prolific researcher, had moved to the company after his startup, Whisper Systems, was acquired by Twitter.
Marlinspike left Twitter in 2013.
These days Miller is best known for his work on
vehicle security research with Chris Valasek of IOActive. The pair has done several different research projects on car security, most recently a year-long look at security vulnerabilities in the UConnect system in some Fiat Chrysler vehicles. That project produced some interesting results, namely a demo that showed Miller and Valasek’s ability to exploit a bug in the system to eventually disable the transmission and take other actions on a moving vehicle remotely.
