CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai
(NASDAQ: AKAM), the intelligent edge platform for securing and
delivering digital experiences, today announced that several of its
cybersecurity experts will be presenting at the upcoming Black Hat
USA 2019, BSidesLV, and DEF CON 27
conferences in Las Vegas. These
speaking sessions will highlight the depth of technical and
industry expertise among the Akamai security research and
engineering teams.
In addition, Akamai will be exhibiting at booth #1522 at Black
Hat where guests can meet Akamai's threat researchers face to face
to get advice on how to manage new exploitation vectors, attack
types, and vulnerabilities – as well as to explore new tools and
see how Akamai uses machine and deep learning models and emerging
techniques to detect and defend against the latest threats.
Details for each of the five Akamai security expert talks are as
follows:
Who: Daniel Abeles, senior security researcher,
Akamai
What: JSShell: An Interactive XSS Management &
Browser Debugging Tool
When: Wednesday, August 7,
10:00-11:20 a.m. PT
Where: Black Hat USA, Mandalay Bay Business Hall
(Oceanside), Arsenal Station 10
JSShell is an interactive multi-user web based javascript shell
that enables the user to debug esoteric browsers and manage XSS
(cross-site scripting) campaigns. During this session, a full cycle
using JSShell to debug browsers and manage XSS campaigns will be
demonstrated.
Who: Martin McKeay,
security researcher and editorial director of Akamai's State of the
Internet Security report
What: The Economy of Financial Services
Attacks
When: Wednesday, August 7,
12:05-1:30 p.m. PT
Where: Black Hat USA,
Mandalay Bay, Palm B, Level 3
Findings from the recently published State of the Internet
Security report, and an outline of 18 months of financial
services-related attack data offering an insightful look into the
criminal economy – from start to finish – will be shared.
Who: Akamai's Tyson
Thomas, principal data scientist and Sreenath Kurupati, senior director of
engineering
What: The Increasing Sophistication of Bot Attacks:
Beyond Fingerprinting Defenses
When: Wednesday, August 7,
2:25-2:45 p.m. PT
Where: Black Hat USA,
Mandalay Bay Ballroom, Innovation City Theater
A new generation of bot attacks has emerged that attempt to
defeat fingerprinting by adding mutations to their fingerprints.
During this session, these new attacks and associated insights will
be discussed.
Who: Akamai senior security researchers Daniel Abeles and Shay
Shavit
What: At Your Service – Abusing the Service Workers Web
API
When: Wednesday, August 7,
5:00-5:55 p.m. PT
Where: BSidesLV, Tuscany Suites & Casino, Breaking
Ground Track
The Service Workers API is a modern web API that grants web
developers advanced capabilities, such as acting as a proxy server,
intercepting network requests and improving offline experience as a
background service. In the past year, Akamai has witnessed a
dramatic increase in usage of legitimate service workers in
customer web applications, and Akamai believes this trend applies
to malicious service workers as well. This talk will cover new and
emerging web based attacks that abuse the Service Worker web API as
well as ways to find those attacks and methods to mitigate and
prevent them will be discussed.
Who: Sam Erb, senior
software engineer, Akamai
What: Hunting Certificates and Servers
When: Friday, August 9,
2:30-3:00 p.m. PT
Where: DEF CON 27, Bally's Las Vegas Hotel &
Casino, 26th Floor, Packet Hacking Village
This presentation from two-time black badge winner Sam Erb will inform attendees about existing
services for finding TLS certificates for DNS hostname
reconnaissance. A new service will be demonstrated during this talk
for finding DNS hostnames in TLS certificates online.
If you would like to learn more about how Akamai turns security
insights into automated protection for your business, visit our
booth at Black Hat at Mandalay Bay in the Business Hall #1522 or
visit here.
Black Hat USA is taking place
August 3-8, 2018 at the Mandalay Bay
Convention Center, BSidesLV will be held at Tuscany Suites &
Casino August 6-7, and DEF CON 27
will be taking place at Paris,
Bally's Flamingo, and Planet Hollywood convention centers
August 8-11.
About Akamai
Akamai secures and delivers digital
experiences for the world's largest companies. Akamai's intelligent
edge platform surrounds everything, from the enterprise to the
cloud, so customers and their businesses can be fast, smart, and
secure. Top brands globally rely on Akamai to help them realize
competitive advantage through agile solutions that extend the power
of their multi-cloud architectures. Akamai keeps decisions, apps,
and experiences closer to users than anyone — and attacks and
threats far away. Akamai's portfolio of edge security, web and
mobile performance, enterprise access, and video delivery solutions
is supported by unmatched customer service, analytics and 24/7/365
monitoring. To learn why the world's top brands trust Akamai, visit
www.akamai.com, blogs.akamai.com, or @Akamai on
Twitter.
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Tom Barth
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617-444-3019
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617-274-7130
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