Tomorrow's News is Today's Intel: Journalists as Targets and Compromise Vectors

Presented at Black Hat Asia 2014, Unknown date/time (Unknown duration)

In today's threat landscape, targeted intrusion by government actors is something faced not only by other nation-states, but also by corporate entities, activists, dissidents, and journalists. While the technology industry has started to come to grips with security requirements in a time of persistent threats, journalists and media organizations are only just now waking up to these hazards.


Presenters:

  • Shane Huntley - Google
    Shane Huntley has 10 years experience working in Computer Security both for Google and in Australia. He joined Google in May 2010 to help form Google's Threat Analysis Group in the Security Team. He works on a range of problems from malware analysis to building new ways to detect new threats against Google and Google users.
  • Morgan Marquis-Boire - Google
    Morgan Marquis-Boire is a Senior Security Engineer at Google, focusing on the protection of high-risk users and specializing in security operations, incident response, and threat analysis. He is also an adjunct fellow at Google Ideas. He is a Security Researcher and Technical Advisor at the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He is a founding member of The Secure Domain Foundation, a non-profit, free, adversary intelligence group. He also does volunteer work for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. A native of New Zealand, he was one of the original founders of the KiwiCON hacker conference. A frequent speaker at universities and conferences around the world, his work on digital repression targeting activists has been featured in numerous print and online publications including Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Wired, and The New York Times.

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