Presented at
The Circle Of HOPE (2018),
July 21, 2018, 4 p.m.
(60 minutes)
This talk will reveal and discuss a disinformation operation that was gearing up to attack the Trump campaign during the summer of the 2016 presidential election. Trump's surprisingly competent information control operation detected and halted the attack. Alexander will discuss how he and his law firm pieced together evidence of the disinformation attack and the Trump campaign's countermeasures by collecting and analyzing DNS-related data. This talk will involve a fascinating and bizarre set of characters and settings, including psychics, preachers, lawyers, gamblers, conspiracies, mystical locations, and of course, domain names, DNS data, and quite a few active threats.
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Alexander Urbelis
as Alexander J. Urbelis
**Alexander Urbelis** (@aurbelis) is a partner at the Blackstone Law Group LLP in New York, and an attorney who focuses on information security and investigations. A frequent media commentator on the subjects of privacy and security, his writing has appeared on CNN, The Intercept, and 2600 Magazine. Alex is also a regular contributor to Off The Hook. Over the years, he has worked for the U.S. Army, Dartmouth College’s Institute for Security Technology Studies (a federally funded cybersecurity and counterterrorism research center), the Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and as information security counsel and chief compliance officer of the world’s largest luxury conglomerates.
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