At FireEye, Alex handles a broad set of responsibilities including product engineering, sales engineering, and security research. Most recently, his security research was published by The Washington Post, PC World, The Register, and Cisco Systems, where he uncovered botnet and Web malware sites associated with McColo Corp. His work was key in taking McColo off the Internet as well as significantly reducing worldwide spam. Prior to FireEye, Alex was founder, owner, and network administrator of an Internet hosting company. His areas of expertise include botnets, malware, network security, and functional binary analysis. Alex has a B.S. in Computer Science from Connecticut College.

Rooting Out the Bad Actors

Considering the remarkably small number of data centers that host services for those groups who operate the most sophisticated malware and botnets on the Internet, itís surprisingly difficult to detect and stop the illicit activities of these ìbad actors.î This session will examine the most recent Web exploits perpetrated by Starline Web Services, ZlKon, Atrivo/Intercage, HostFresh, UralNet and other bad actors. Discussion will include popular attack schemes, obfuscation tactics and hosting models. Extensive research findings and case studies will be shared to illuminate key points and discuss malware and botnet activity.