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Columbia Alumni Event 2008: Protecting the World from Cybercrime - Via YouTube :: Videos by googletechtalks:
Google Tech Talks
August 28, 2008
ABSTRACT
Since 2005, over 230 million customer records have been lost or stolen in security breaches, and data breaches are at an all-time high in large part due to increased reliance on electronically stored files. Should you be concerned about the security of your personal information on the Internet and with the issue of online fraud? Do you wonder what could be done to help secure the web and our cyber-infrastructure? Come hear compelling stories about some of the most significant cyber-attacks over the past few years and what can be done to protect the world against rampant cybercrime and mass identify theft.
Speaker: Dr. Neil Daswani
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After Words: James Bamford, author of "The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America " interviewed by Jonathan Landay
Upcoming Schedule (Eastern time USA)
Saturday, October 18, at 10:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, at 6:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, at 9:00 PM
Monday, October 20, at 12:00 AM
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The Presidency & the Courts [Ashbrook Center & Federalist Soc.] - Via JURIST - Video Monitor:
Conference on the Presidency and the Courts with keynote address by President George W. Bush, Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs & Federalist Society, October 6, 2008. Microsoft Silverlight, 136 minutes. Watch recorded video.
OneWebDay in D.C. - Via CDT - PolicyBeta:
Today is the third annual “Earth Day for the Internet,” and there are events all over the country celebrating the Internet, and I hope that you attend one or find a way to help. I’ve just come from an event in D.C. discussing the policy challenges facing the Internet and the ways that the Internet has enhanced the civic dialog. As Ellen Miller of Sunlight Foundation noted, in New York city they’re having an OWD party and rally while we have a policy discussion, but that’s “what we do,” in D.C.; we are creatures of the political climate and policy discussions are what we can offer to the Web. Readers of this blog are well aware what a marvel the Internet is, as well as the obstacles it faces here and abroad. Even so, it’s easy to take the Internet for granted. Luckily, we have a happy hour later today (information below) to balance the policy discussion - we would love to see you there. read more »
Dialog on “Privacy Competition” Expands - Via CDT - PolicyBeta:
As new technology expands our opportunities for social networking, information gathering, and content sharing, it also raises serious concerns about privacy. Last night, CDT participated privacy discussion at a Churchill Club event held at Microsoft in Mountainview, CA. The conversation, titled “Personalization versus Privacy: Balancing Business and Consumer Interests,” tackled issues ranging from government surveillance to targeted advertising and offered perspectives on the U.S. and global regulatory landscape. Panelists from Microsoft and Google, the California Office of Privacy Protection, and Jim Dempsey from CDT shared their views on crafting solutions to privacy problems. The panelists were careful to explain some of their assumptions and some of the technical and legal concepts; that format provided a good introduction and a nuanced treatment of the issues . read more »
Computer Scientists Ask Court to Reconsider Gag Order in DefCon Case - Via Threat Level:
Eleven computer scientists and researchers from institutions across the country have signed a letter in support of three MIT students who were barred from speaking at the DefCon hacker conference this last Sunday.
The letter was part of filings that the Electronic Frontier Foundation submitted to the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts asking a federal judge to reconsider his decision to gag the students with a temporary restraining order.
The students were scheduled to give a presentation on vulnerabilities they discovered in mag stripe and smartcard payment cards used by passengers riding Boston's T subway. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority had sought a restraining order last Friday to prevent the students from disclosing information that could help hackers modify payment cards or create new ones to obtain free rides on the subway system. read more »
House Committee - Broadband Providers and User Privacy - C-SPAN2 (Archive) Program ID 206457 :
House Committee Broadband Providers and User Privacy Energy & Commerce, Telecommunications and the Internet
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID: 206457 - 07/17/2008 - 2:00 - No Sale View in Video Library
Markey, Edward J.U.S. Representative, D-MA
Sabet, BijanGeneral Partner, Spark Capital
Dykes, Robert R.Founder, Chairman & CEO, NebuAd
Cleland, Scott C.Founder and President, Precursor
Cooper, AlissaChief Scientist, Center for Democracy and Technology, Computer
Reed, David P.Adjunct Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Laboratory
A hearing was held on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology which gives broadband network providers the ability to see everything on their networks and closely examine each packet of data. Topics raised by the deployment of this technology by commercial networks across the United States include questions relating to consumer privacy, copyright, network management, and other communications law and policy issues.
MIT Students' Response to MBTA Statements - Via EFF.org Updates:
Yesterday, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority issued a statement to CNET that misrepresents the facts leading up to the MBTA's lawsuit against three MIT students. The statement said:
A week ago, the MBTA learned about the presentation to be made at the conference, and immediately contacted MIT. At a meeting last Tuesday involving all the parties, MIT staff and the students agreed to provide the MBTA with a copy of the presentation. After several days passed without getting any information from MIT, the MBTA had no choice but to seek assistance from a federal court judge on Friday. At 4:30 a.m. on Saturday, the presentation was finally provided to the MBTA. Staff is thoroughly reviewing the information to determine if there is any degree of substance to the claims being made by the students.
The MIT students would like to clarify a few facts: read more »
Audio From Subway Hacking Hearing - Via Threat Level:
"I don't think that I'm unfairly going on the record to recognize that the MBTA, like most public transportation systems, faces real cash issues," says U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock, in an audio recording from Saturday's hearing in Boston, in which the judge granted a temporary restraining order stopping a planned DefCon talk on vulnerabilities in the Boston subway's fare card system.
Kim Zetter obtained the audio from the 90-minute hearing, in which EFF argued unsuccessfully against the extraordinary gag order. Despite the EFF's defense of the First Amendment, the judge was persuaded by lawyers for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to dole out a little prior restraint.
"Someone who opens a mechanism to defraud [MBTA] wrongfully of their revenues is acting in violation of the public interest, and it is in the public interest to enjoin such activity," the judge concluded.
Here's the audio in Windows Media format, as an mp3 and an ogg
(Read Original Article - Via Threat Level.)
Federal Judge in DefCon Case Equates Speech with Hacking - Via Threat Level:
LAS VEGAS -- Lawyers with the Electronic Frontier Foundation said a federal judge who granted a temporary restraining order on Saturday to halt a scheduled conference talk about security vulnerabilities came to "a very, very wrong conclusion." They said the judge's order constituted illegal prior restraint, which violated the speakers' First Amendment right to discuss important and legitimate academic research.
"When you discuss security issues, if you are telling the truth, that should be something protected at the core of the First Amendment," said Kurt Opsahl, senior staff attorney for the non-profit EFF, who was at DefCon to participate in an annual ask-the-EFF panel and to launch the organization's Coders Rights Project. "If you are truthfully telling the world about a dangerous situation, and (it is) a situation which is dangerous not because the security researcher exposes the vulnerability (but) because the person who made the product . . . made the vulnerability, (then) this should be core speech." read more »
DefCon: Boston Subway Officials Sue to Stop Talk on Fare Card Hacks -- Update: Restraining Order Issued; Talk Cancelled - Via Threat Level:
LAS VEGAS -- The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority filed a suit in federal court on Friday seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent three undergraduate students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from presenting a talk at the DefCon hacker conference this weekend about security vulnerabilities in payment systems used in the Massachusetts mass transit system.
The transit authority, known as the MBTA, is seeking to prevent the students from "publicly stating or indicating" that electronic passenger tickets used on the transit system have been compromised until the MBTA can fix security flaws in the system. It further seeks to bar the students from releasing any tools or providing any information that would allow someone to hack the transit system and obtain free rides. read more »
MIT Students Gagged by Federal Court Judge - Via EFF.org Updates:
Las Vegas - Three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were ordered this morning by a federal court judge to cancel their scheduled presentation about vulnerabilities in Boston's transit fare payment system, violating their First Amendment right to discuss their important research.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) represents Zack Anderson, RJ Ryan and Alessandro Chiesa, who were set to present their findings Sunday at DEFCON, a security conference held in Las Vegas. However, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) sued the students and MIT in United States District Court in Massachusetts on Friday, claiming that the students violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) by delivering information to conference attendees that could be used to defraud the MBTA of transit fares. This morning District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, meeting in a special Saturday session, ordered the trio not to disclose for ten days any information that could be used by others to get free subway rides.
"We wanted to share our academic work with the security community and had planned to withhold a key detail of our results so that a malicious attacker could not use our research for fraudulent purposes," said Anderson. "We're disappointed that the court is preventing us from presenting our findings even with this safeguard." read more »
Black Hat: Security Geeks Converge on Vegas - Via Threat Level:
LAS VEGAS -- More than 4,000 security professionals have converged in Las Vegas this week for the Black Hat Security Conference -- to be followed this weekend by the DefCon hacker conference.
IOActive penetration tester Dan Kaminsky is expected to draw a full house to his anticipated talk on the serious DNS security flaw he discovered earlier this year.
Other talks include a discussion on hacking highway toll systems, security vulnerabilities in implantable wireless medical devices and a demonstration on injecting law-enforcement Trojans onto target machines. read more »
Cold Boot Attack Utilities Released At HOPE Conference - Via Slashdot:
An anonymous reader writes "Jacob Appelbaum, one of the security researchers who worked on the cold boot attacks to recover encryption keys from memory even after reboot, has announced the release of the complete source code for the utilities at The Last HOPE in New York City. The hope (obligatory pun) is that the release of these tools will help to improve awareness of this attack vector and enable the development of countermeasures and mitigation techniques in both software and hardware. The full research paper (PDF) is also available."
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CQ Forum on Technology: Privacy in the Digital Age - Washington, DC:
CQ Forum on Technology: Privacy in the Digital Age
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Columbus Club, Union Station
50 Massachusetts Ave. N.E.
Washington, DC
Continental Breakfast: 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
Program: 8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Admission is Complimentary - but please Register online or email cqforum_technology@cq.com
Keynote Speakers:
Congressman Ed Markey, Co-chair, Congressional Privacy Caucus (invited)
Congressman Joe Barton, Co-chair, Congressional Privacy Caucus
Panelists (invited):
Michael Altschul, CTIA – The Wireless Association
Jonathan Hart, Dow Lohnes PLLC, Media and Information Technology Practice
Gerard Lewis, Comcast
Ari Schwartz, Center for Democracy & Technology read more »
The Last HOPE - July 18-20, 2008 - Hotel Pennsylvania - New York City :
We all knew these days would come. The Last HOPE is the seventh Hackers On Planet Earth conference. Join the rest of the hacker community from around the world July 18 to July 20, 2008 for this momentous occasion at the historic Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City.
There will be three days and nights of speakers along with all sorts of activities to keep you entertained and enlightened. We have a tremendous amount of space for us to make use of and it's all right in the middle of the city, across the street from Penn Station. You still have time to get involved in this historic event, whether by attending, volunteering, speaking, or creating something new that none of us have thought of yet.
The Last HOPE. If you miss this one, there's nothing left to say.
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