With over 10 years of experience in the information security industry, Iftach Ian brings a mixture of Software development, OS, Network and web security to Aladdin as the Director of Security Research. Prior to Aladdin, Ian held a similar role at web security firm Finjan. Prior to that, Ian was the founder and CTO of a security startup in the IDS/IPS arena and developed new techniques for attack interception. Prior to that, he served in a director position at Datavantage (NASDAQ:MCRS) with responsibility for software development, Information security as well designing and building a financial Datacenter. Prior to Datavantage, he managed the Internet application department at Comsec Consulting as well as the Unix Department, where he has been consulting to major banking and industry companies worldwide. Iftach Ian holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Business Administration from the Interdisciplinary Center at Herzlya.
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In this talk Iftach will cover the research efforts done when we managed to come across a criminally operated server running the latest Neosploit (and other eCrime tools in use by criminal groups). During the research there have been several crucial points of interest such as the discovery of compromised credentials, getting into the applications used by the criminals to manage the infections, and the infection channels, as well as a few hairy moments of being logged in to the server while “someone” else was also logged in (from a notorious location that has been brought down after an article at the Washington Post – McColo…).
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