This talk will cover the latest security-related issues and events in social networking including the Koobface worm running rampant over all the social networks and the 4chan password theft incident. We will conclude with a discussion of how we can collaborate using social networks to make ourselves and our friends safer.
Henry Stern is a Senior Security Researcher (IronPort Systems) at Cisco Systems and an alumnus of Dalhousie Faculty of Computer Science. He joined IronPort Systems in 2006 as one of the original engineers responsible for IronPort Anti-Spam (TM), the industry’s most accurate anti-spam filter, and invented IronPort’s Multidimensional Pattern Recognition (TM) technology for combatting image threats. Henry has been involved in the anti-spam community since 2003, serving as a committer for the Apache SpamAssassin project and a contributor to both the SURBL and URIBL spam domain name blocklists. More recently, Henry’s focus has been on the nexus of malware and crime. Henry is a frequent speaker at both industry and academic computer security conferences and regularly engages in public-private partnerships with law enforcement to help bring online criminals to justice. Henry won best paper at the MIT Spam Conference 2009 for “The Rise and Fall of Reactor Mailer.”
Coffee and cookies will be provided, courtesy of Faculty of Computer Science.