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Michael Schrenk

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DEF CON 23 [Audio] Speeches from the Hacker Convention

DEF CON 22 [Materials] Speeches from the Hacker Convention.

Colby Moore

Brian Gorenc

Patrick Wardle

Dan Kaminsky

Marc Rogers

Weston Hecker

Charlie Miller

Richard Thieme

Teddy Reed

Joe FitzPatrick

Wesley McGrew

Scott Erven

Grant Bugher

Jesse Michael

Nir Valtman

OwlTail

Materials Available here:https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Michael-Schrenk-Applied-Intelligence-UPDATED.pdf  Applied Intelligence: Using Information That's Not There Michael Schrenk Security Researcher Organizations continue to unknowingly leak trade secrets on the Internet. To those in the know, these leaks are a valuable source of competitive intelligence. This talk describes how the speaker collects competitive intelligence for his own online retail business. Specifically, you learn how he combines, trends, and analyzes information within specific contexts to manufacture useful data that is real, but technically doesn't exist on it's own. For example, you will learn about the trade secrets that are hidden within sequential numbers, how he uses collected intelligence to procure inventory, and how and why he gauges the ongoing health of his industry and that of his competitors. And on a related note, you'll also learn how the federal government nearly exposed an entire generation to identity fraud. Michael Schrenk has presented six DEF CON talks on intelligence and organizational privacy, including last year's talk "You're Leaking Trade Secrets". He has developed Internet-based intelligence campaigns since 1995 for organizations as diverse as: Fortune 500 Companies, Private Investigators, Asian Art Dealers, and Investigative Journalists. His adventures in intelligence have taken him around the world, with speaking opportunities in The Middle East, Eastern Europe, The UK, Silicon Valley, and most places in between. Mike is also the author of "Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers (2007 &amp; 2012, No Starch Press, San Francisco)". He is again teaming with No Starch Press to write a non-technical Intelligence and Counterintelligence book scheduled for publication in Q1 2016. Twitter: @mgschrenk Facebook: facebook.com/webbots

Materials Available here:<a href="https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Michael-Schrenk-Applied-Intelligence-UPDATED.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Michael-Schrenk-Applied-Intelligence-UPDATED.pdf</a> Applied Intelligence: Using Information That's Not There Michael Schrenk Security Researcher Organizations continue to unknowingly leak trade secrets on the Internet. To those in the know, these leaks are a valuable source of competitive intelligence. This talk describes how the speaker collects competitive intelligence for his own online retail business. Specifically, you learn how he combines, trends, and analyzes information within specific contexts to manufacture useful data that is real, but technically doesn't exist on it's own. For example, you will learn about the trade secrets that are hidden within sequential numbers, how he uses collected intelligence to procure inventory, and how and why he gauges the ongoing health of his industry and that of his competitors. And on a related note, you'll also learn how the federal government nearly exposed an entire generation to identity fraud. Michael Schrenk has presented six DEF CON talks on intelligence and organizational privacy, including last year's talk "You're Leaking Trade Secrets". He has developed Internet-based intelligence campaigns since 1995 for organizations as diverse as: Fortune 500 Companies, Private Investigators, Asian Art Dealers, and Investigative Journalists. His adventures in intelligence have taken him around the world, with speaking opportunities in The Middle East, Eastern Europe, The UK, Silicon Valley, and most places in between. Mike is also the author of "Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers (2007 &amp; 2012, No Starch Press, San Francisco)". He is again teaming with No Starch Press to write a non-technical Intelligence and Counterintelligence book scheduled for publication in Q1 2016. Twitter: @mgschrenk Facebook: <a href="http://facebook.com/webbots" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">facebook.com/webbots</a>

Michael Schrenk - Applied Intelligence: Using Information That's Not There - 101 Track

Slides Here: https://defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/Schrenk/DEFCON-22-Mike-Schrenk-Youre-Leaking-Trade-Secrets-UPDATED.pdf You're Leaking Trade Secrets Michael Schrenk BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SPECIALIST Networks don't need to be hacked for information to be compromised. This is particularly true for organizations that are trying to keep trade secrets. While we hear a lot about personal privacy, little is said in regard to organizational privacy. Organizations, in fact, leak information at a much greater rate than individuals, and usually do so with little fanfare. There are greater consequences for organizations when information is leaked because the secrets often fall into the hands of competitors. This talk uses a variety of real world examples to show how trade secrets are leaked online, and how organizational privacy is compromised by seemingly innocent use of The Internet. Michael Schrenk is an online Business Intelligence Specialist, who has developed industrial webbots and botnets for the past twenty years. He is a five-time DEFCON speaker, including last year's talk, “How my Botnet Purchased Millions of Dollars in Cars and defeated the Russian Hackers”. Mike is also the author of “Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers”, 2nd Edition (2012, No Starch Press, San Francisco).

Slides Here: <a href="https://defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/Schrenk/DEFCON-22-Mike-Schrenk-Youre-Leaking-Trade-Secrets-UPDATED.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/Schrenk/DEFCON-22-Mike-Schrenk-Youre-Leaking-Trade-Secrets-UPDATED.pdf</a> You're Leaking Trade Secrets Michael Schrenk BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SPECIALIST Networks don't need to be hacked for information to be compromised. This is particularly true for organizations that are trying to keep trade secrets. While we hear a lot about personal privacy, little is said in regard to organizational privacy. Organizations, in fact, leak information at a much greater rate than individuals, and usually do so with little fanfare. There are greater consequences for organizations when information is leaked because the secrets often fall into the hands of competitors. This talk uses a variety of real world examples to show how trade secrets are leaked online, and how organizational privacy is compromised by seemingly innocent use of The Internet. Michael Schrenk is an online Business Intelligence Specialist, who has developed industrial webbots and botnets for the past twenty years. He is a five-time DEFCON speaker, including last year's talk, “How my Botnet Purchased Millions of Dollars in Cars and defeated the Russian Hackers”. Mike is also the author of “Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers”, 2nd Edition (2012, No Starch Press, San Francisco).

Michael Schrenk - You're Leaking Trade Secrets

In this podcast, Michael Schrenk and I discuss webbots, spiders, and screen scrapers. These are the tools that allow developers to crawl the web, to mash up contents from multiple web-sites, to monitor sites for activity and to create intelligent agents to make purchases on their behalf. Of particular interest are the stories Mr. Schrenk shares of the intelligent webbots he has built.

Michael Schrenk - Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers