Abuse and the Global Infection Rate

Architecture and Background

Rick Wesson: Abuse and the Global Infection Rate Abstract: Detecting global abuse patterns with realtime black lists, spamtraps and honey pots. Rick Wesson contextualize these mechanics within the broader red-team landscape.

Vulnerability Analysis

The technical analysis investigates threat vectors and design shortcomings related to vulnerability-research, penetration-testing, security-analysis, exploit-development.

Exploitation and Demonstrations

Rick Wesson: Abuse and the Global Infection Rate Abstract: Detecting global abuse patterns with realtime black lists, spamtraps and honey pots. Understanding what your network is doing to the rest of the community is difficult, we discuss how to use our tools to understand how your network is abusing other networks and show graphs and stats of trends globably and within the us. Bio: Rick Wesson has worked in the IETF and ICANN on DNS, whois, and Registry and Registrar protocols; Served for 4 years as the CTO of the Registrars Constituency in the GNSO/ICANN framework and 2 years on the ICANN security and Stability Committee.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

Defenders and researchers are provided actionable defensive mitigations, monitoring telemetry, and configuration safeguards to minimize systemic risk.