Targeted Intrusions & Cyber Espionage - Wake Up!
Speaker: Steven Adair
Competitive data, research information, and intellectual property are being stolen everyday from across the globe. Most of the targets have no idea its occurring and are not prepared to deal with the threat. It's not just Government agencies and the Defense industry that are the targets. Fortune 500 companies, small research firms, lobbyist groups, human rights organizations, and so many more are victimized daily. We will look into how the attacks are perpetuated and talk about why a paradigm shift in necessary for how we look at security. It's time to wake up. General details: Presentation will detail various attack methodologies such as targeted attacks via e-mail with PDF, DOC, PPT, XLS, files etc. It will discuss various levels of attacks in terms of sophistication. We will dive into some of the recent 0day vulnerabilities that have come to light thanks to targeted malware attacks.