[Noisebridge-announce] Sunday - BAHA - Pwning Botmasters

[travis+ml-noisebridge-announce at subspacefield.org]

Just a reminder that the following talk is happening at Noisebridge
this Sunday Sunday Sunday at 2pm until it ends.

It's for people interested in security, not the other kind of hacking.

It's generally held in the couch area at NB, possibly using the 5MoF
projector.

Last time we had a turnout of ten people (and Ross Anderson, who
counts for two), and so this time we're going to have our first
invited speaker.

This coming week will be full for security people; we have security B
sides SF on Monday and Tuesday, and RSA's 20th conference from Sunday
through Friday, and many groups (OWASP Bay Area and BaySec) meeting
Tuesday evening.

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:34:55AM -0800, travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org wrote:
> On 13 Feb 2011, 1400 (that's 2pm for the subtraction-impaired),
> The Bay Area Hackers Association will host the following talk:
> 
> Counter-Exploitation: Pwning Botmasters
> 
> We'll have Billy Rios talking about exploiting the ZeuS botnets and
> the people who control them.
> 
> Zeus is a Trojan horse that steals banking information by keystroke
> logging. Zeus is spread mainly through drive-by downloads and phishing
> schemes. First identified in July 2007 when it was used to steal
> information from the United States Department of Transportation, it
> became more widespread in March 2009. In June 2009, security company
> Prevx discovered that Zeus had compromised over 74,000 FTP accounts on
> websites of such companies as the Bank of America, NASA, Monster, ABC,
> Oracle, Cisco, Amazon, and BusinessWeek.
> 
> Zeus' current botnet is estimated to include millions of compromised
> computers (around 3.6 million in the United States).  As of October
> 28, 2009 Zeus has sent out over 1.5 million phishing messages on
> Facebook. On November 3, 2009 a British couple were arrested for
> allegedly using Zeus to steal personal data.
> 
> His blog is here:
> 
> http://xs-sniper.com/blog/
> 
> About the Speaker:
> 
> Billy Rios is currently a security researcher for Google where he
> studies emerging security threats and technologies.  Before Google,
> Billy was a Security Program Manager at Microsoft where he helped
> secure several high profile software projects including Internet
> Explorer.  Prior to his roles at Google and Microsoft, Billy was a
> penetration tester, making his living by outsmarting security teams,
> bypassing security measures, and demonstrating the business risk of
> security exposures to executives and organizational decision makers.
> 
> Before his life as a penetration tester, Billy worked as an
> Information Assurance Analyst for the Defense Information Systems
> Agency (DISA). While at DISA, Billy helped protect Department of
> Defense (DoD) information systems by performing network intrusion
> detection, vulnerability analysis, incident handling, and formal
> incident reporting on security related events involving DoD
> information systems.  Before attacking and defending information
> systems, Billy was an active duty Officer in the United States Marine
> Corps.
> 
> As usual, BAHA's website is here:
> 
> http://baha.bitrot.info/
> 
> And we do have a Google calendar for the monthly meetings; it is
> linked to from that page.
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