Spyware Warriors: ‘The Digital Underground’
by Jeff Molander
jeff-at-thoughtshapers.com
Hosted by: Jeff Molander
Guests:
Wayne Porter, Sr. Dir. Greynet Networks
Chris Boyd (PaperGhost), Dir. Malware Research
Facetime Communications
Wayne Porter and Chris Boyd (aka PaperGhost) get paid to spend their days infiltrating rings of real life cyber criminals… all the while risking they’ll get caught by the thieves themselves. How must it feel to gather evidence on such bottom-feeders and then turn it over to States’ Attorney General’s offices and/or Federal Authorities?
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00:01 - Introduction
02:38 - What does Facetime do and for whom?
04:09 - What is a botnet network? (Boyd)
05:20 - What are hackers and e-criminals motivations? (Boyd)
06:11 - Things changing for the worse; paradigm shift (Porter)
07:55 - The story of RinCe, tipster on major bust (Boyd, Porter)
10:20 - Anatomy of a good tipster; motivations (Boyd)
11:44 - Changing vectors & new dangerous hacker tactics (Porter)
12:54 - Instant Messaging no longer safe (Porter)
13:24 - Botnet criminal motivations (Boyd)
13:44 - New perspectives (Molander)
14:34 - Attack complexity increasing, vectors changing (Porter)
16:24 - Dark Economy: Organized crime moving online (Porter)
16:59 - Cloak & Dagger: How to penetrate a botnet (Boyd)
19:03 - Gathering intelligence from ‘the underbelly’ (Porter)
22:54 - Fallout from adware, spyware & Web crime (Porter)
23:34 - Warning to e-commerce executives (Porter)
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April 13, 2006
