TakeDownCon Las Vegas Hosts Leading Industry Experts on Mobile Threats
TakeDownCon Las Vegas Hosts Leading Industry Experts on Mobile Threats
Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) December 01, 2011
December 1, 2011 – Top ethical hackers from across the US will unveil the latest threats to mobile devices at next week’s TakeDownCon security conference in Las Vegas. TakeDownCon is the highly technical IT security conference series designed by EC-Council that first launched this May in Dallas.
“The focus of TakeDownCon Las Vegas is on mobile and wireless security and we have assembled an all-star cast of leading cybersecurity minds who will be presenting cutting-edge vulnerabilities from mobile cross-site scripting to smartphone botnets, mobile application exploits and Android viruses,” said Leonard Chin, Conference Director for TakeDownCon. “Mobile devices pose one of the most significant and growing threats to corporate IT security and our speakers will be addressing a number of critical security management issues that are highly relevant for today’s businesses.”
Key presentations at TakeDownCon Las Vegas include:
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Chris Eng, Veracode – “Vulnerabilities in Mobile Applications”: In this presentation, Eng will outline the Top 10 Mobile Application Risks, designed to educate developers and security professionals about the mobile application behavior – both maliciously designed or inadvertent – putting users at risk.
Kyle Osborn, AppSec Consulting: “Portable XSS”: Using a popular IM and blogging client, (and an operating system) as examples, this presentation will review how an attacker can own you, mobile and desktop, using everyday web vulnerabilities, Cross Site Scripting.
Georgia Weidman, NeoHapsis – “Transparent Smartphone Spying: Apps and Baseband”: This talk discusses new research in stealing data off smartphones transparently. This proof-of-concept works over cellular communication at the base smartphone operating system to avoid detection.
Jimmy Shah, McAfee – “Android Malware – How We’ve Been Lucky to Avoid Android Viruses So Far”: This presentation will discuss the resources available to attackers to write Android viruses, including methods of infecting executables, gaining control from the original app and avoiding detection.
Joey Peloquin, FishNet Security – “Offensive Mobile Forensics”: This presentation will feature forensic analysis using the same free tools and techniques attackers use when they acquire lost or stolen devices
Loucif Kharouni, Trend Micro, and Ryan Sherstobitoff – “Automating Wire Fraud”: This presentation will cover Auto Transfer Systems, including bypassing mobile out-of-band authentication, money laundering and real-world examples, based on their research into SpyEye gangs that use these techniques.
For the complete conference agenda, visit http://www.takedowncon.com/agenda
The conference will also provide a variety of information security training courses. EC-Council’s Center of Advanced Security Training (CAST) is providing highly technical and advanced training workshops on mobile hacking and forensics and network defense. Pre-conference training includes the world-renowned, DoD Directive 8570-accepted Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) version 7, the Certified Security Analyst (ECSA) and Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI) program.
TakeDownCon Las Vegas is being held at the magnificent M Resort Spa Casino from December 2 – 7. Training runs from December 2 – 5. The conference portion is from December 6 – 7.
For more information, including a complete speakers line up, program agenda, training offerings, and registration details, please visit http://www.takedowncon.com
About TakeDownCon
TakeDownCon is a technical IT security conference series that provides advanced, highly technical research, presentations, and training to accomplished information security professionals. Designed by EC-Council, it made its debut in Dallas in May 2011, and followed by Las Vegas in December. TakeDownCon focuses on technical researches in cutting-edge exploits and vulnerabilities and also provides highly technical as well as certification training, including the renowned Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) program (a recently accepted certification of DOD Directive 8570.01M Change 2). http://www.takedowncon.com.
Contact:
Leonard Chin
leonard(at)eccouncil(dot)org
Conference Director – TakeDownCon
Director of Marketing, Conferences & Events – EC-Council
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