Investigative Journalist Brian Krebs Receives M3AAWG Mary Litynski Award for Protecting Online Community; Krebs Urges More In...
February 18 2014 - 2:45PM
Marketwired
Investigative Journalist Brian Krebs Receives M3AAWG Mary Litynski
Award for Protecting Online Community; Krebs Urges More Industry
Cooperation Against Abuse
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Feb 18, 2014) -
With an intense passion and impressive self-taught
technical skill, investigative journalist Brian Krebs has
persistently and courageously shed a rare light on the dark
underbelly of the Internet that has resulted in the disruption or
shutdown of innumerable cybercrime operations. Recognizing the
importance of this new breed of journalism and its role in
protecting the online community, Krebs was honored by the
Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group as the
recipient of its M3AAWG Mary Litynski Award at the organization's
meeting Tuesday in San Francisco.
Writing on his KrebsOnSecurity.com blog, Krebs has extensively
tracked and been the first to report on major exploits and security
threats affecting the industry. He is credited with uncovering
major retail and credit bureau cyber break-ins including the 2013
Target holiday shopping intrusion, exposing hidden malware threats
and identifying clandestine activities of online criminals.
Responding to the award, Krebs noted that he often works on
stories with security professionals who are also passionate about
protecting their end-users. However, from his journalistic
vantage point, he pointed out that the industry as a whole needs to
be more willing to share vital abuse information within the vetted
community to help identify and block cybercrime as it develops.
"Unfortunately, the crooks are doing a better job than the
security industry of sharing information right now. They also
have gotten better at not putting all their eggs in one basket and
spreading around their parasitical behavior, making it harder to
detect.
"We need a better way to gauge the reputation of various online
enterprises in the ecosystem. We need to develop a
self-defense immune system that can provide feedback when a hosting
provider or network operator starts showing it is inflected with a
high concentration of parasites," Krebs said.
Among the breaking stories Krebs has researched and reported
over the years:
- He discovered and alerted retailers of recent
financial data theft at Neiman Marcus, arts and crafts store
Michaels and Target.
- He identified recent data theft at Marriot,
Hilton, Sheraton and Westin hotels.
- He exposed the sale of personal data from a major credit
reporting service to an underground identity theft service.
- He exposed the availability of personal
identity information taken from the three major credit
reporting services, including social security numbers and
birth dates, on a site that sold inexpensive credit reports
directly to the public.
- Through elaborate research and detailed tracking, Krebs
identified the McColo hosting provider as one of the largest
sources of spam at the time, leading to the shutdown of the
service.
"Brian Krebs has created a whole new world of journalism,
proving it is possible for a dedicated reporter to make a good
living by pursuing in depth investigative reporting that has a
noteworthy impact on society. He quite often focuses on the
narratives no one else wants to cover, yet these turn out to be the
stories that no one can stop talking about once they hit the
street," said M3AAWG Co-Chairman Chris Roosenraad.
The 2014 award was announced at the M3AAWG 30th General Meeting,
February 17-21, in San Francisco with 40 sessions covering mobile
security, malware identification and mitigation, Web security,
public policy and other issues. The Voice and Telephony
Anti-Abuse Workshop held during the meeting with industry,
government and academia professionals identified key threats and
actions to help reduce telephone services exploitation. The
M3AAWG 31st General Meeting will be in Brussels, June 9-12,
2014.
The annual M3AAWG Mary Litynski Award recognizes the lifetime
achievements of a person who has significantly contributed to
making the Internet safer for all. It seeks to acknowledge
individuals driven for the greater good. As with the 2014
award, submissions for the 2015 award are open to the public at
http://www.maawg.org/events/maawg-mary-litynski-award.
About the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group
(M3AAWG)
The Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group
(M3AAWG) is where the industry comes together to work against bots,
malware, spam, viruses, denial-of-service attacks and other online
exploitation. M3AAWG (www.M3AAWG.org) represents more than one
billion mailboxes from some of the largest network operators
worldwide. It leverages the depth and experience of its global
membership to tackle abuse on existing networks and new emerging
services through technology, collaboration and public policy. It
also works to educate global policy makers on the technical and
operational issues related to online abuse and messaging.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., M3AAWG is driven by market
needs and supported by major network operators and messaging
providers.
M3AAWG Board of Directors: AT&T (NYSE: T); CenturyLink
(NYSE: CTL); Cloudmark, Inc.; Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA); Constant
Contact (NASDAQ: CTCT); Cox Communications; Damballa, Inc.;
Facebook; Google; Mailchimp; Oracle/Eloqua; Orange (NYSE and
Euronext: ORA); PayPal; Return Path; Time Warner Cable; Verizon
Communications; and Yahoo! Inc.
M3AAWG Full Members: 1&1 Internet AG; Adobe Systems Inc.;
AOL; BAE Systems Detica; Cisco Systems, Inc.; CloudFlare; Dynamic
Network Services Inc.; Experian Marketing Services; iContact;
Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ, NASDAQ: IIJI); LinkedIn; McAfee
Inc.; Message Bus; Mimecast; Nominum, Inc.; Proofpoint; Scality;
Spamhaus; Sprint; and Twitter.
A complete member list is available at
http://www.m3aawg.org/about/roster.
Media Contact: Linda Marcus, APR 1+714-974-6356 (U.S. Pacific)
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