Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Samy Kamkar presents at InnoTech Austin ISSA Security Summit


I really enjoyed the talk by Samy Kamkar last week at Innotech Austin, where the ISSA Capital of Texas chapter put on their Security Summit. If you don’t know of Samy, he’s the security researcher best known for creating The MySpace worm, one of the fastest spreading malware of all time. His talk, Covert Attack Vectors, was lighthearted and fun.

Here’s one of his slides:
Samy discussed several exploits – some of them done by him as a teenager. The final analysis was that the only way to really protect your privacy might be this approach:

A great crowd was on-hand, and everyone seemed to have a great time!