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Subject: Seiden et al on Denial of Service Attacks - EE380 W 4:15 Gates B03
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
COMPUTER SYSTEMS LABORATORY COLLOQUIUM
4:15PM, Wednesday, February 23, 2000
Gates Computer Science Building, Room B03 (NEC Auditorium)
Topic: Perspectives on Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
Speakers: David Brumley, Stanford University
Joel de la Garza, Securify Labs
Mark Seiden, Securify Labs
About the talk:
"...still no news on who is behind the concerted
DoS attacks that so crippled America's ability to
buy Pokemon trading cards earlier this week."
--"Need to Know", www.ntk.net
"In a case like this, there is no Interpol, no
Pinkerton's, that you can turn to for help."
--Wall Street Journal
"Who're you gonna call?"
--Ghostbusters
Recent attacks on e-commerce sites have demonstrated the trust
misplaced in today's Internet Protocols, and the codependence
between the vast shopping mall that the Internet has become and
government, law enforcement, and journalism.
We'll go in some detail into denial of service attacks: how they
work, what happened in these cases, and how they can be prevented,
detected and responded to.
Maybe we'll even show you some juicy chat sessions which took place
among possible perpetrators of some of the attacks.
About the speakers:
David Brumley is the Assistant Computer Security Officer for Stanford
University. He has responded to over 1000 incidents, authored such
programs as the remote intrusion detector (RID) and SULinux (Stanford
University Linux). David received his bachelor's degree in
Mathematics from the University of Northern Colorado.
Joel de la Garza is a security consultant for Securify. He attended
Stanford University where he began working for SUNsET, Stanford
University's Network Security Team. He was a founding member of the
Meeker Group, which worked to develop web applications for the medical
device industry.
Mark Seiden is Director of Securify Labs and Practice Area Head for
Physical Security (see www.securify.com). Programming since the '60s,
consulting for 17 years in diverse areas of network engineering and
security, clients have included major computer companies, investment
banks and law firms, UN agencies, online content providers, ISPs,
research projects and non-profits. A minor-league writer, he's been
published in the New York Times, Wired, Sun Expert, Unix Review and
(after being involved in a number of high profile activities, such as
the pursuit and capture of Kevin Mitnick) was featured as one of the
50 CyberElite by Time Digital.
Contact information:
www.securify.com
FORTHCOMING LECTURES
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