Add an eventSessions at SXSW Interactive 2011 about Security in Hyatt Regency Austin
Saturday 12th March 2011
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How Not to Get Pwned on Facebook
by David Endler
Social networks are a hacker's paradise. Today more so than ever, it's easy for bad guys(tm) to infect millions of people on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social networks with little or no effort. Corporate espionage, bank account stealing worms and viruses, frustratingly hard to remove spyware - you name it, social networking makes it that much easier for these things to spread.
This session will cover some of most effective and amusing techniques that hackers are using today to infect the masses. Focusing on a couple of the more popular social networks, we'll also walk through basic privacy and security checklists that everyone should use to fortify their accounts. Finally, if you suspect your computer is infected as the result of opening a file or visiting a strange link sent from your grandmother on Myspace, etc., this session will demonstrate how to most effectively scan and cleanse your system using free tools.
LEVEL: Beginner
Monday 14th March 2011
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Terrorism 2.0: Al Qaeda's Online Tools
The web, it is often said, inherently benefits the insurgent. Thus it's no surprise that it's becoming the medium of choice for terrorists and violent extremist groups around the world.
Tracing "terror 2.0" from the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai - arguably the first networked terrorist attack - up through the Times Square bomber, who was radicalized after watching online videos from Muslim cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki and others, this presentation will examine how terrorists are using the same tools we're developing for spreading information and social networking in the West for their own nefarious purposes - even sometimes live online to coordinate unfolding attacks.Learn how al Qaeda, the Iraq insurgency, Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Taliban, and even Russian organized crime is running scams, coordinating attacks, recruiting followers, raising money, and living their lives online alongside regular web users. For instance, the Taliban's website was, for a long period, hosted on a server in Houston, Texas, and al Qaeda's primary webmaster - who helped pass around online bomb-making guides, radical videos, downloadable extremist sermons, and hostage videos - turned out to be a 22-year-old geek in West London.
LEVEL: Intermediate