Official Website: Michael Schrenk

What's Happening?

Cover Story: Linux Magazine

Dec. 2012: “Build a Botnet, Playing nice with Internet Attack Techniques” An article about the constructive things that can be done with destructive technologies, like the time I wrote a botnet that autonomously purchased millions of dollars worth of automobiles.

LECTURE: Las Vegas Writer's Group

June 2012: “Promote Your Career by Writing Non-Fiction” A ninety minute talk on how writing non-fiction can advance your a career.

Second Edition of WS&SS

April 2012: The second edition of Webbots, Spiders and Screen Scrapers is available. This book has many new chapters, including: Advanced Parsing, Scraping Difficult Websites (two chapters), Proxies, and many mroe updates.

INTERVIEW: by Sol Lederman

April 2012: “Federated Search Blog” I was interviewed by Sol Lederman on my upcoming book. The entire interview can be heard here:

LECTURE: O'Reilly Web Cast

March 2012: O'Reilly Web Cast “Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers” This one-hour web cast was in anticipation of my upcoming book of the same title. There were over 600 attendees in the live audience.

INTERVIEW: BBC World Service, London UK

August 2011: “The DEFCON Hacker's Conference” This was the second of two interviews I did in one day for The British Broadcasting Corporation. This one was conducted live and for BBC World Service (radio).

INTERVIEW: BBC Radio, London UK

August 2011: This was recorded interview conducted by BBC Radio in London (first of two).

INTERVIEW: Southern California Public Radio (KPCC, 89.3FM)

August 2011: “The integrity of Software Developers” I was part of a live panel discussion, where we discussed the integrity of so-called security provides and software developers.

INTERVIEW: by Elisabetta Tola, Bologna Italy

October 2010: “Innovation in Data-Driven Journalism” This was a recorded interview I did with Elisabetta Tola, that was later translated into Italian for broadcast in Bologna Italy.

Los Angeles, CA

March 17, 2010: The Los Angeles chapter of OWASP invites me to speak about the new challenges of writing webbots and how those challenges are met through new techniques.

Utricht, Holland

Nov. 27 - 28, 2009: I visit my Dutch friends at the VVOJ to teach journalist more hacking skills.

City University, London

Nov. 8 - 9, 2009: While the motives and outcomes may be different, there are many similarities between investigative journalism and computer hacking. Mike Schrenk will guide you through these practical, hands-on training sessions that will identify a few hacker-tricks of particular use to journalist Class details

LAS VEGAS

Oct. 1 2009: Schrenk.com relocates to Las Vegas Nevada.

DEFCON XVII

Jul. 31 - Aug. 2, 2009: Schrenk to speak at DEFCON XVII about advanced screen scraping techniques. More information as schedules are set.

CENTRE FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

Jul. 17 - 19, 2009: I'll be teaching classes on web scraping and anonymity in London England at the Centre for Investigative Journalism.

CHINESE BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Jan. 28, 2009: No Starch Press (San Francisco), just sold the Chinese Language rights for Webbots, Spiders, & Screen Scrapers to GOTOP, a publisher in Taiwan.

SCHRENK TO SPEAK AT EUROPEAN JOURNALISM CONFERENCE

European Investigative Journalism Conference Brussels Belgium November 21-22, 2008, Schrenk to lead three workshops and co-present another with Dutch Reporter, Henk Van Ess

DEFCON XVI ANNOUNCEMENT

We'll see you all at DEFCON XVI August 8-10, 2008 Riviera Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV. Michael Schrenk is also a featured personality at TheSummit, Aug/07/08 9:00pm (at the Riviera Skyboxes).

DE VOLKSKRANT

March 14, 2008 We did the statistical analysis for this article in Holland. (Dutch language)

RUSSIAN BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

No Starch Press (San Francisco), just sold the Russian Language rights for Webbots, Spiders, & Screen Scrapers to a Russian publisher.

WE'RE EXHIBITING AT HOTELWORLD

See you at HotelWorld February 25-27, 2008 Las Vegas Convention Center Las Vegas, NV (exhibitor)

LET'S MEET AT CES

See you at CES! January 7-9, 2008 Las Vegas Convention Center Las Vegas, NV (attendee)

PHP|ARCHITECT COVER

php|architect July, 2007 Schrenk wrote the cover story!

SCHRENK SPEAKS AT DEFCON XV

The DEFCON XV presentation, The Executable Image Exploit, is available for free viewing on Google Videos.

ITALIAN BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

An Italian Language version of Webbots, Spiders and Screen Scrapers is available.

Recent Projects
Here is a quick sampling of some recent projects I've been involved in.

TrackRates
Intelligence Tools

An Intelligence tool that helps hotels price rooms competitively
  FiveStar
   Custom CMS &
   Bussiness Process

Advanced Content management and bussiness process control
  Website
  Optimization
   Dynamic Images

Analysis and presentation tools
JakeKnows
Mobile Apps

Automated data gathering and cloud migration & development