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Trust Doesn’t Scale: Practical Hijacking On the World’s Largest Network
Thursday, October 16 1:00 pm PST/4:00 pm ET • FREE
Speakers:- Jeff Moss, Founder and Director of Black Hat
- Anton Kapela,Co-Owner and Partner at 5Nines Data
- David Mortman, CSO-in-Residence, Echelon One
- Max Kelly, CSO of FaceBook
- Ariel Futorasnky, Co-Founder of Core Security
Overview:
Our monthly free webcast series rolls on with another talk about a major vulnerability.
This webcast is entitled “Trust Doesn’t Scale: Practical Hijacking On the World’s Largest
Network.” The webcast is based on a remarkable presentation by Tony Kapela and Alexander
Pilosov at the DEFCON security conference this August. To illustrate their BGP-based
traffic-hijacking techniques, they intercepted all traffic from the notoriously hostile
conference network and ran it through their servers. The process was almost completely
invisible to DEFCON attendees.
Their demonstration took advantage of a trust issue with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP),
and it appears to be part of a larger security trend of major issues emerging in the bedrock
protocols that support the Internet. Dan Kaminsky’s DNS vulnerability relies on trust issues
in DNS. In recent years major questions have been raised about SNMP and ICMP and at this writing
there’s word of a potentially major TCP exploit. Vulnerabilities like these raise significant
questions about the business of security, the limits of patching, and the difficulties involved
in securing a trust-based system.
Anton Kapela
Anton Kapela is a co-owner and partner at 5Nines Data, a Datacenter and IT
solutions company in Madison, Wisconsin, where he is responsible for the architecture and implementation
of network services and datacenter facilities. Prior to 5Nines Anton actively consulted with several
network, wireless, and communications industry companies. His most memorable clients have been Redline
Communications, Motorola’s Canopy Wireless division, and a subsidiary of Research In Motion known as ‘Slipstream.’
More recently he consulted on Internap Networks’ acquisition and integration of VitalStream – a Content Delivery Network.
Max Kelly – Facebook CSO
David Mortman
As CSO-in-Residence, David Mortman is responsible for Echelon One’s research and analysis program.
Formerly the Chief Information Security Officer for Siebel Systems, Inc., David and his team were
responsible for Siebel’s worldwide IT security infrastructure, both internal and external. He also
worked closely with Siebel’s product groups and the company’s physical security team and lead up
Siebel’s product security and privacy efforts. Previously, Mr. Mortman was Manager of IT Security
at Network Associates, where, in addition to managing data security, he deployed and tested all
of NAI’s security products before they were released to customers. Before that, Mortman was a
Security Engineer for Swiss Bank. A CISSP, member of USENIX/SAGE and ISSA, and an invited speaker
at RSA 2002 and 2005 security conferences, Mr. Mortman has also been a panelist and speaker at
RSA 2007, InfoSecurity 2003, Blackhat 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, Defcon 2005, 2006 and 2007 and
Information Security Decisions 2007 as well. Mr. Mortman sits on a variety of advisory boards
including Qualys, Applied Identity and Reflective amongst others. He holds a BS in Chemistry
from the University of Chicago.
Ariel Futoransky
Ariel Futoransky, a co-founder of Core, is the head of CoreLabs, the company’s research and
development center. As such, he is responsible for all day-to-day research and publishing activities.
Since 1996, Futoransky has been working to transform promising technologies into competitive advantages
for the company and its customers. Prior to co-founding Core, Futoransky served as a member of the Special
Projects Group at the Argentine tax agency and served as a consultant for several government agencies and
corporations. Futoransky has distinguished himself as a multiple award winner in the International Olympiad
in Informatics (IOI), where he won a silver medal in Stockholm in 1994, three gold medals in Buenos Aires in
1991-1993, and a bronze medal in 1992 in Bonn, Germany.
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