Security Attacks, Countermeasures and Protecting Yourself Online!
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Session: Security Attacks, Countermeasures and Protecting Yourself Online!
Thursday, November 10th 11:30AM-12:30PM Convention Center – B113-115
Abstract
We all spend a great deal of time on the Internet: reading email, tweeting, and interacting on social networks. Repeated research has shown, though, that even technically savvy people aren't aware of many of the security and privacy implications of what they do online. We all know to keep our virus scanners up to date, but there is so much more we need to do to keep ourselves safe online a nd protect our reputations.
You will learn about:
- How can people hijack your computer? (e.g. modern attacks)
- How do attackers get your private information?
- Privacy and security settings (e.g. for Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, Adobe Flash and others)
- Analog loopholes (ie screenshots, photographs taken of secure/private data)
- Passwords
- The Internet is forever (wrap-up)
About the Speakers
Valerie Fenwick Valerie Anne Fenwick is a Principal Software Engineer at Oracle Corporation with over a decade of experience in computer security. Valerie is currently working on the Solaris Cryptographic Framework, of which she was a designer and major contributor. She is the lead for the Oracle Solaris Change Request Team, responsible for making decisions as to what code changes are incorporated into the Operating System and Networking consolidation. She is co-author of Solaris 10 Security Essentials and writes a blog on bicycling, beer and security. In her spare time, she enjoys performing at community theaters, riding her bike, and skiing.
Terri Oda is a postdoc at the University of New Mexico where she is doing research into self-healing computer systems. She hopes to one day make herself redundant by making security easier for everyone. Her (recently completed!) PhD work involved lightweight web security policies, and her previous work includes stopping spam using a model of the human immune system. Terri’s research interests include computer security, adaptive systems, and usability. Outside of academia, she is part of the steering committee for GNU Mailman, writes for the Geek Feminism Blog and her own “Web Insecurity” blog, helps run Linuxchix, and recently made a huge pile of crocheted Angry Birds as an excuse to play games with more people in real life.
Radia Perlman is a Fellow and director of Network and Security Technology in Intel Labs. She is the inventor of many fundamental innovations in computer networking, including the spanning tree algorithm, the heart of today’s Ethernet; TRILL, a new standard for data center interconnection; scalable and robust link state routing technology; and security contributions including strong password protocols, authentication and authorization models, assured delete of data, and denial of service protection techniques. Perlman is the author of the networking text “Interconnections”, and coauthor of “Network Security”. She has a PhD from MIT in computer science.
Lindsey Wegrzyn is a senior product manager for privacy at Adobe. As a member of the Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET), Wegrzyn works with Adobe’s Chief Privacy Officer to define and deliver Adobe’s product privacy strategy for a highly specialized cross-business unit engineering team focused on product and customer data privacy. Prior to joining Adobe, Wegrzyn was legal director, global security at Yahoo! Inc., where she drove Yahoo!’s worldwide legal security policy development. Wegrzyn holds a JD from the Baylor School of Law and a BS in secondary education from Northwestern University. She is a member of the bar in Georgia and Florida.
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