Part 1: What You Need To Know about the Yahoo! Breach: Steps To Take Today

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey's widespread devastation in late August, many people are pouring in their physical, emotional and financial support for the victims. Massive hurricanes like Harvey and Irma often attract cyber criminals, who view natural disasters as a way to make money.

US-CERT at the Department of Homeland Security is now warning people to beware of malicious cyber activity seeking to capitalize on interest in Hurricane Harvey.

Join this interactive Q&A panel as we discuss:
- Types of cyber scams we should be aware of in the aftermath of Harvey and Irma
- How to spot a malicious or phishing email from a mile away
- What to do if you're a victim of a cyber attack
- Recommendations for cyber safety after major disasters

Speakers:
- John Bambenek, Threat Systems Manager at Fidelis
- Dan Lohrmann, CSO & Chief Strategist for Security Mentor
- Nathan Wenzler, Chief Security Strategist at AsTech Consulting

This presentation will cover how DNS surveillance works and how it has been operationalized to track over 4 dozen malware families. The results from this surveillance is given away for free and best practices will be covered in how best to use this data.

Join this interactive Q&A session and learn the facts about the recent NotPetya attack on the Ukraine and the collateral damage it caused by crippling large businesses and organizations worldwide.

Topics that will be discussed during this live Q&A panel will include:
- How is NotPetya different from Petya and Wannacry?
- Timeline of the attack
- Impact and aftermath
- What's next? How can companies better protect their data against similar attacks in the future?

Moderator:
- Vincent Tocce of the Vince in the Bay Podcast

Speakers:
- Chris Roberts, Chief Security Architect at Acalvio
- Jay Beale, COO & CTO of Inguardians
- John Bambenek, Threat Systems Manager at Fidelis Cybersecurity

Internet of Things devices are notoriously lacking in security, making them easy targets for attackers to hijack and leverage in DDoS attacks. How have cyber attacks evolved in the last few months? What is the impact of the IoT devices on cybersecurity across organizations and industries? How can we better protect our organizations when it comes to attacks coming from the IoT?

This panel of security experts will discuss the current state of IoT security and the IoT trends seen across industries. Join this interactive Q&A session and discover where the vulnerabilities lie and how we can improve cybersecurity.

Moderator:
- Vince Tocce, Founder of Vince in the Bay Podcast

Speakers:
- Jay Beale, CTO of Inguardians
- John Bambenek, Threat Systems Manager at Fidelis Cybersecurity
- Mike Hamilton, SVP Product at Ziften Technologies

This past week we saw the emergence of a worm-based ransomware attack in wannacry that showed us how damaging these attacks can be to critical services society relies on.

This presentation will cover the recent wannacry attacks and what we have learned from them. In addition, we'll discuss the evolution of ransomware in recent years, focusing on attacks targeted against enterprises and so-called "high-interaction" ransomware attacks. Attendees will also be given a path forward of protecting their institution. A discussion of the renewal of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery as a result and what this means for fintech going forward.

About the Presenter:
John Bambenek is Manager of Threat Intelligence Systems at Fidelis Cybersecurity and an incident handler with the Internet Storm Center. He is also a faculty member of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois where he teaches courses in cybersecurity. He has been researching security threats and criminal organizations for 17 years and coordinating with US and foreign law enforcement entities to help bring criminal actors to justice.

The 10th Annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) was just published; the industry gold standard in security incident reporting for the past year. The report covers incidents all over the globe and in all verticals.

This webinar will cover the findings of the report but focus in on the key details enterprises need to know right now to protect themselves against the most relevant threats for the upcoming year.

About the Presenter:
John Bambenek is Manager of Threat Intelligence Systems at Fidelis Cybersecurity and an incident handler with the Internet Storm Center. He is also a faculty member of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois where he teaches courses in cybersecurity. He has been researching security threats and criminal organizations for 17 years and coordinating with US and foreign law enforcement entities to help bring criminal actors to justice.

BrightTALK caught up with Fidelis Cybersecurity's John Bambenek for an in-depth conversation on the current state of information security, today's threatscape and a discussion on the cyber industry.

Topics up for discussion:

- The future of Cyber warfare
- The tasks for the US political administration on an information security level
- The Yahoo breach and who was to blame
- GDPR and the steps that companies need to take to prepare for the legislation
- A vision of the threatscape; new actors, motives and techniques
- AI and machine learning and the role it has to play in the cyber security industry

About the Speaker:
John Bambenek is Manager of Threat Intelligence Systems at Fidelis Cybersecurity and an incident handler with the Internet Storm Center. He is also a faculty member of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois where he teaches courses in cybersecurity. He has been researching security threats and criminal organizations for 17 years and coordinating with US and foreign law enforcement entities to help bring criminal actors to justice.

Cloudflare revealed a serious bug in its software in February, which caused sensitive data like passwords, cookies, authentication tokens to spill in plaintext from websites using Cloudflare Content Delivery Network (CDN).

Join this panel of experts and learn:
- Who is affected by Cloudbleed
- What this means for your organization
- What should you do right away
- How to better protect your data

Moderator:
John Bambenek, Threat Systems Manager at Fidelis Cybersecurity

Speakers;
Jeffrey Goldberg, Chief Defender Against the Dark Arts at Agilebits
Jay Beale, CTO & COO of InGuardians

Those defending against cyberattacks are overwhelmed by the shear volume of incidents to respond to. It is so bad that it has been said there may be as many as 1 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs. Machine learning and automation is often heralded as a way to deal with this problem so that many incidents can be dealt with requiring pressing a button. While there is much promise is machine learning there are also many perils that need to be considered. Attackers know how we defend ourselves and they do use our defenses against us.

This talk will cover some of the open-source tools and techniques available for organizations to use to defend themselves while keeping in mind how attackers could undermine our efforts.

The US intelligence community has released their summary of the DNC breach and the election-related hacking and there have been additional disclosures about the attacks.

This webinar will be the latest on what we know, what we don’t know and what many are merely speculating about. We’ll take a look forward for upcoming European elections to get a perspective on what can be expected there in the coming months.

On December 14 Yahoo revealed a new breach affecting more than 1 billion users’ data. This breach is separate to the hack it disclosed earlier this year, which was the biggest data breach on record. Join John Bambenek, Threat Systems Manager at Fidelis Cybersecurity on the latest developments in the Yahoo breaches, what it means for you and steps to take today.

Earlier this year, it appeared Russian state sponsored actors had not only hacked the Democratic National Convention and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, they were using the purloined information for a propaganda operation insider the United States to attempt to influence the election. Now that the United States has made it clear there will be retaliation for this, we may have crossed over to open cyberwar. This talk will talk about the lead up to where we are today, what the likely outcomes of two developed nations attacking each other will be and what it means for consumers and enterprises who still most operate globally.

With the news Yahoo! was breached in 2014 and 500 million user accounts were potentially compromised, this breach became the biggest in history to date. However, the damage extends far beyond Yahoo! properties where the digital identities of users could be compromised on other sites, business documents leaked and other harm could come for users who don’t take immediate steps.

This talk will cover not only the breach, but the aftermath in what users and enterprises should do to protect themselves over breaches affecting other companies.

Nearly 1 million new malware threats are released every day. The sheer deluge of unique malware samples makes it difficult for incident responders to keep up to protect their networks. Even more difficult is the task for investigators and law enforcement to keep up with the size and number of command-and-control networks and criminal operations.
Join this presentation to learn about the solutions and tools you can employ to monitor criminal infrastructure and make it easy for incident handlers to identify problems on their network, for security analysts to protect their networks and for law enforcement to have reliable near-time information for their operations.