Everyone has probably already heard that Facebook rolled out new privacy settings today. If you haven’t seen them or gotten the following pop-up box on login…you will soon: There are a great deal of articles already out about how this is such a great improvement and how these new settings give you more control over […]
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Continuing the zombie apocalypse from Defcon…Kevin Johnson and I will again be presenting “Social Zombies: Your Friends Want to Eat Your Brains” at this week’s OWASP AppSec DC conference. We will be speaking Thursday, November 12th at 2:10 in room 146c. We will have some new material and updates from the presentation we gave at
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The video from the talk Kevin Johnson and I did at DEFCON 17 called “Social Zombies: Your Friends Want To Eat Your Brains” is now up on Vimeo. If you missed us at DEFCON Kevin and I will be presenting an updated version at OWASP AppSec DC in November.
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Shocking but true…today a researcher discovered that Twitter has been used for command and control of a botnet which may have been used by Brazilian hackers to steal online banking login information. Kudos to the researcher, Jose Nazario, who found this. It was an interesting read to say the least. The bot would basically look
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Kevin and I want to thank everyone that came out to our talk at DEFCON 17 this past weekend. We had a great time giving the talk and thanks for the feedback! Even the two Facebook developers that came to our Q&A enjoyed it! Having said that, Kevin and I will never, ever get a
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Yes, you are reading the title of this post correctly! Massive Zombie attacks at DefCon this year…bring your shotgun (we are kidding of course, please do not bring firearms to DefCon…you will make the goons very unhappy)! Seriously though, Kevin Johnson and I will be presenting “Social Zombies: Your Friends Want to Eat Your Brains”
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I’m back from Notacon 6 that took place in Cleveland over the weekend and finally have some time to get a post up. All I have to say is…wow. What a great con! This was my first Notacon (yeah, I live in Cleveland…sad I know) and I was totally impressed! There was a great line
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It’s time to gear up for Notacon 6 which starts for me on Thursday night at 7pm. I will be at the preview night giving a short overview of my presentation on Saturday “Rise of the Autobots: Into the Underground of Social Network Bots”. I have been busy tuning and making some last minute updates
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What have I been doing lately? Why the lack of posts? Well…I have been preparing for my talk at Notacon 6 called Rise of the Autobots: Into the Underground of Social Network Bots. Who are these bots and what are they here for? From my abstract: How do you know that last friend request or
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