Unmasking You
Joshua Abraham and Robert Hansen explores unmasking you at DEF CON 17, examining wireless-security and practical defenses.
Summary
Architecture and Background
Unmasking You Joshua "Jabra" Abraham Security Expert at Rapid7 Robert "RSnake" Hansen CEO, Founder of SecTheory Many people and organizations depend upon proxies and numerous other privacy techniques to mask their true identity. The problem is there are often flaws within these technologies. This talk will demonstrate several of these flaws and as well as weaknesses in well known implementations. There will be several new anti-privacy 0days released.
Vulnerability Analysis
Mr. Abraham joined Rapid7 in 2006 as a Security Consultant. Josh has extensive IT Security and Auditing experience and worked as an enterprise risk assessment analyst for Hasbro Corporation. Josh specializes in penetration testing, web application security assessments, wireless security assessments, and custom code development.
Exploitation and Demonstrations
In the past, he has spoken at ShmooCon, Infosec World, OWASP Boston, LinuxWorld, Comdex and BLUG. In his spare time, he contributes code to open source security projects such as the BackTrack LiveCD, Nikto, Fierce, and PBNJ. Mr. Hansen (CISSP) has worked for Digital Island, Exodus Communications and Cable & Wireless in varying roles from Sr.
Remediation and Defensive Strategies
Security Architect and eventually product managing many of the managed security services product lines. He also worked at eBay as a Sr. Global Product Manager of Trust and Safety, focusing on anti-phishing, anti-DHTML malware and anti-virus strategies. Later he worked as a director of product management for Realtor.com. Robert sits on the advisory board for the Intrepidus Group, Just Thrive, previously sat on the technical advisory board of ClickForensics and currently contributes to the security strategy of several startup companies. For copies of the slides and additional materials please see the DEF CON 17 Archive here:
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