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Black Hat Webcast No. 10

USA 2009 Mobility + Security

Thursday, May 21 1:00 PM PST/4:00 PM EST • FREE

Speakers:

  • Jeff Moss, Founder and Director of Black Hat
  • Charlie Miller, Principal Analyst, Independent Security Evaluators
  • Vincenzo Iozzo, Student, Politecnico di Milano
  • Alex Stamos, Founding Partner, iSEC Partners
  • Roberto Gassira, Security Researcher, Mobile Security Lab
  • Roberto Piccirillo, Security Researcher, Mobile Security Lab



Overview:

We're trying out a new format for the May 21 webcast on Mobility and Security. We're going to bring in some researchers and some industry folks and have a round-table discussion on the current state and future direction of securing the mobile devices we all can't live without. The idea behind this new style of presentation is to increase the amount of interactivity, both with the guests and the audience, so please join us and bring your ideas and questions.

Also, as an additional incentive for you to come check out the new webcast format, one lucky registrant is going to get a free conference pass to Black Hat USA 2009.

Charlie Miller, Principal Analyst, Independent Security Evaluators

Charlie Miller is Principal Analyst at Independent Security Evaluators. He was the first with public exploits against Apple's iPhone and first phone running Google's Android operating system. He won the CanSecWest Pwn2Own competition in 2008. He was one of the top 10 computer hackers of 2008 according to Popular Mechanics.

Vincenzo Iozzo, Student, Politecnico di Milano

Vincenzo Iozzo is a student at the Politecnico di Milano where he does some research regarding malware and IDS. He is involved in a number of open source projects, including FreeBSD due to Google Summer of Code. He also works as a security consultant for Secure Network, an Italian company, and as a reverse engineer for Zynamics.

Alex Stamos, Founding Partner, iSEC Partners

Alex Stamos is a Founding Partner of iSEC Partners and is an experienced security engineer and consultant specializing in application security and incident response. He is a leading researcher in the field of web application and web services security and has been a featured speaker at top industry conferences such as Black Hat, DefCon, SyScan, Infragard, Microsoft BlueHat, Toorcon, the Web 2.0 Expo and OWASP AppSec. He holds a BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley, and spends his spare time chasing his baby son and sailing on the SF bay.

Roberto Gassira, Security Researcher, Mobile Security Lab

Roberto Gassira graduated in Computer Science with the thesis "Smartk, a smart card framework for the Linux Kernel." Roberto spent my PhD experience working on OS security based on smart cards. His career started as Security Analyst performing penetration test and vulnerability assessment of Web Applications. Currently he is working on Mobile Security as Security Researcher for Mobile Security Lab focusing on analysis and security assessment of embedded devices based on ARM architecture and mobile application by means of reverse engineering techniques.

Roberto Piccirillo, Security Researcher, Mobile Security Lab

Roberto Piccirillo is currently working as a Security Researcher for Mobile Security Lab. He graduated in Computer Science with the thesis "Graphical Representation and Animation for Cryptography Education". He mainly deals with Mobile Application and Protocol Security but he is also interested in binaries reverse engineering.