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Horatio Nelson Huxham, born in South Africa on March 28 , 1973 , is a well-known and highly respected member of various Hacker communities throughout the world. He started in a Grey Hat hacker group in 1995 where he became known as '''IceFire'''. Working with some of the world’s best experts, including renounced names like dr_juz (Justin Shaw).
In the years to pass he hacked in to various data warehouses and government archives. Horatio turned Whitehat when he went public on October 5 , 2003 , making front page news in a South African national newspaper for exploiting the security features of one of the major banking groups in South Africa.
Shortly after the news article he was asked by the largest bank in South Africa to demonstrate and proof his findings. The bank’s security specialists supervised the demonstration and together they investigated potential solutions.
Horatio started consulting to some of the largest companies in South Africa as an information security analyst. During this time he was approached by the same bank to work as a security analyst responsible for the Internet, e-mail and mobile security for the entire bank group. Being at the bank for only five months he was assigned as the security architect for the bank’s highest priority project called MTN Mobile Banking. This project involved the creation of a brand new bank merging mobile technology with banking infrastructure. Horatio designed and architected the technology solution while overseeing the rest of the project as the head of the security work stream.
During this time he was one of the inventors of a number of security patents build in to MTN Mobile banking. For the first few months, acting as the security architect, he started overseeing the total end-to-end design and deployment. At the end of January 2005 he took on the role of integration manager as well as overseeing and managing the security work stream. As the project came closer to implementation, he was assigned as the implementation manager, managing the total implementation of all the components of this complex solution. The project was implemented and is currently known as MTN Banking. After the successful implementation of MTN Banking he was appointed as the security architect for the bank.
