Presented at
BSidesSF 2015,
April 20, 2015, 11 a.m.
(60 minutes)
Within the Darknet, an area of the Internet that's hidden from pedestrian use and commonly associated with malicious and illegal activity, individuals and organizations, create, test and refine their attacks. Because many of these attackers are financially motivated, there is a large and growing number of targeted attacks focusing on financial services. This presentation analyzes those attacks.
Presenters:
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Jonathan Curtis
- Director, Security Architecture - Norse Corporation
Jonathan Curtis, a member of the Norse Field Engineering Team, was the Director of Solutions and Intelligence within the Compliance and Enforcement Sector at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Mr. Curtis has years of experience addressing the toxic abuse problems of the Internet from both public and private sector perspectives. Prior to the CRTC, Jonathan was Director of Security Products at Nominum, building solutions to mitigate malicious activities on carrier networks. Mr. Curtis started his career at Bell Canada where he was an Associate Director with Technology Development with leadership responsibilities of ISP Safety and Network Security for 13 years. Mr. Curtis is also one of the founders of the Messaging, Malware, and Mobile Anti-abuse Working Group - an international organization of experts that focuses on curbing messaging abuse and has now expanded to tackle telephony abuse. Finally Mr. Curtis was founder of the Notational Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance Canada.
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Brian Contos
Over the last two decades Brian Contos helped build some of the most successful and disruptive security companies in the world. After getting his start in security with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and later Bell Labs, Brian began the process of building security startups and taking multiple companies through successful IPOs and acquisitions including: Riptech, ArcSight, Imperva, McAfee and Solera Networks. Brian has worked in over 50 countries across six continents. Brian has published two books including Enemy at the Water Cooler-Real-Life Stories of Insider Threats and Physical and Logical Security Convergence, which he co-authored with former NSA Deputy Director William Crowell. Brian is a Distinguished Fellow with the Ponemon Institute and blogger for CSO Magazine.
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