Speaking Engagements

(2011, Dec 9), CyberSecurity In Action: Case Studies, Cybersecurity Conference & Expo, Gary Warner, Paul Joyal, and FBI Supervisory Special Agent Melissa Horvath. 

(2011, Dec 8), The New Frontier: Cyber Attack Vectors, Cybersecurity Conference & Expo, GovCyber.com, Washington, DC.

(2011, Oct 13), Case Studies from the UAB Spam Data Mine, Digital Crimes Consortium, Nassau, Bahamas.

(2011, Jun 14), Phishing: The Case for Fighting It, National Attorneys General Conference, Missippi State University School of Law.

(2011, Jun/Jul), Cyberbullying, Birmingham, AL & Mobile, AL

(2011, Mar 4), Playing Defense: Today's Cyber Healthcare Threats, Alabama Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).  Birmingham, AL.

(2011, Jan 21). The OTHER Spam Problem: Spam as Evidence, the UAB Spam Data Mine and UAB PhishIntel(TM), Google HQ, Mountain View, CA.

2010 Presentations

(2010, Nov 5). Zeus Botnet: The need for Malware Intelligence. Cybercrime 2010, Portsmouth, NH.

(2010, Oct 14-15). Seven Phases of Phishing Investigation.  Microsoft Digital Crimes Conference. Montreal, Canada.

(2010, Sep 30). Online Exploitation.  Alabama Health Information Management Systems Society (ALHIMSS) Fall Conference, Point Clear, Alabama.

(2010, Sep 30). Social Media Successes and Risks in Healthcare.  Alabama HIMSS Fall Conference, Point Clear, Alabama.

(2010, Sep 21). Cybercrime: Money, Espionage, or Both? Maryland InfraGard, Pax River, MD.

(2010, Sep 8). UAB Computer Forensics: Education, Research & Service in the fight against Cybercrime.  Hoover Rotary Club, Hoover, AL.

(2010, Aug). Glavmed: Secrets of the Russian Pharm Spammers.  Birmingham InfraGard, Birmingham, AL.

(2010, Aug). The UAB Spam Data Mine.  Birmingham InfraGard, Birmingham, AL.

(2010, Aug 19). Today's Cyber Threats: Protecting Yourself and Your Practice.  Birmingham Medical Group Managers Association, Birmingham, AL.

(2010, Aug). Working Together to Stop Cyber Crime.  Briefing for Chinese government delegation, UAB, Birmingham, AL.

(2010, Aug 5). Phishing For Fraud.  Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, UAB, Birmingham, AL.

(2010, Jun 17). Records Management & Computer Forensics.  American Records Management Association, Birmingham, AL.

(2010, May 12). Phishing intelligence: Challenges and directions. Counter eCrime Operations Summit (CECOS), Sao Paolo, Brazil.

(2010, May 11). SEO, SEP, and Malvertising: What’s a consumer to do? Counter eCrime Operations Summit, Sao Paolo, Brazil.

(2010, April 7). Universal Threat Awareness.  IT Security 360, Toronto, Ontario.

(2010, March 24). CyberEspionage and Criminal Hacking: The New Threat Matrix.  GovSec, Washington DC.

(2010, Jan 25). The Zeus Botnet: Stealing Everything from Millions of Americans.  DOD CyberCrime, St. Louis, MO.

2009 Presentations

December 10, 2009 - Secure Computing Magazine's  Virtual Symposium on Botnets

December 8, 2009 - Birmingham InfraGard Chapter - "Botnet Investigation"

November 18, 2009 - Birmingham Rotary Club - "Today's Cyber Threats and UAB Computer Forensics"

November 17, 2009 - Sociology Guest Lecture - "Privacy & Security in the Internet Age"

November 2, 2009 - Alabama Bankers Association Security Conference, Hoover, Alabama.  "Operation: Swordphish - A partnership to Fight CyberCrime"

October 28, 2009 - Financial Services ISAC (FS-ISAC) - "The Future of Phishing"

October 21, 2009 - APWG eCrime Researchers Summit, Tacoma, Washington - "eCrime Challenges and Research Responses"

October 20, 2009 - APWG eCrime Researchers Summit, Tacoma, Washington - "A Collaborative Research Center for Electronic Crime Response Research"

October 15, 2009 - Microsoft Digital Crimes Consortium, Redmond, Washington - "Botnet Bleedover"

September 30, 2009 - Merchants Risk Council, Platinum Members Meeting, San Jose, California - "eCommerce Pressure Points: Connecting the Dots"

September 30, 2009 - Merchants Risk Council, Platinum Members Meeting, San Jose, California - "Current Trends in Cybercrime and Forensics"

August 3, 2009 - FDIC Cyber Threats Analysis Team, Washington, DC - "Zeus Bot: Analysis of a Banking Trojan"

July 10, 2009 - Birmingham Kiwanis Club - "UAB Computer Forensics: Education, Research & Service in the fight against CyberCrime"

June 9, 2009 - Birmingham InfraGard Meeting - "The FTC Case Against Rogue ISP Pricewert / 3FN"

April 16, 2009 - Metropolitan Criminal Justice Executive Association, Birmingham, Alabama - "Bringing Cybercrime Home"

March 10, 2009 - Birmingham InfraGard Meeting - "Trends in Identity Theft and Fraud"

Feb 20, 2009 - AF3 Working Group Briefings, Google Headquarters, Mountain View, California:
      Session One: Current Trends in CyberCrime
      Session Two: Attribution and Targeting
      Session Three: Monetization of CyberCrime

Feb 6, 2009 - University of Alabama System, Board of Trustees - "Combating CyberCrime"

Jan 30, 2009 - DOD CyberCrime 2009, St. Louis, MO - "Massive Exploitation"

Jan 13, 2009 - Birmingham InfraGard Meeting - "The Cyber Propaganda War: Gaza Conflict"
 

2008 Presentations

Dec 16, 2008 – FDIC Cyber Fraud Working Group, Washington DC -  “Torpig & Advanced Banking Trojans”

Dec 9, 2008 – Birmingham InfraGard meeting, Birmingham, AL. - “Red Flag Rules for Identity Theft”.

Nov 13, 2008 – Healthcare Information Management Systems Society, Birmingham, AL.  Topic:  “Online Exploitation”.

Nov 1, 2008 – Chase Payment Tech Systems, Tucson, AZ.  Topic: “Universal Fraud”

Sep 23, 2008 – Florida Government Technology Conference, Tallahassee, FL. Topic: “Social Engineering: The Threat to Your Organization”

Sep 18, 2008 – Merchants Risk Council, Chicago, IL.  Topic: “Post-Phishing: The Future of Fraud”

Jun 10, 2008 – Birmingham InfraGard Meeting, Birmingham, AL. Topic: “Current Trends in Identity Theft and Online Fraud”.

Jun 4, 2008 – Authentication and Online Trust Alliance, Seattle, WA.  “Online Trust: The View From Capitol Hill”

Jun 2, 2008 – National Intelligence Council, Washington, DC.  Topic: Cyber Intelligence Requirements to Support National Security and Law Enforcement.

May 13, 2008 – Birmingham InfraGard meeting, Birmingham, AL.  Topic: “A Look Underground: Examining current trends among cyber criminals (with live demo)”

Mar 13, 2008 – Office of Thrift Supervision Investigator’s Conference, Washington, DC – Topic: “Current Trends in Phishing”.

Feb 8, 2008 – Institute of Internal Auditors chapter meeting, Birmingham, AL.  Topic: “Identity Theft and Phishing: Protect Your Employees, Protect Your Company”.

Jan 30, 2008 – Congressional Internet Caucus “State of the Net” conference, Washington, DC.  Topic:  “Website Vulnerabilites used for Financial Crimes and Terrorist Propaganda”.

Jan 17, 2008  - Department of Defense CyberCrime Conference,  St. Louis, MO.  Topic:  "Spear Phishing - Criminals Seek High Value Targets".  

Jan 14, 2008 - Digital PhishNet Singapore, Singapore - "DPN 2.0 – Six Months of Data".  

Jan 7, 2008 - IEEE meeting, Birmingham, AL.  "The Botnet Threat" was the presentation.

Nov 26, 2007 - Birmingham Association of Internal Auditors, Birmingham, AL.

Topic: "Protecting Your Employees from Phishing"

Oct 25, 2007 -  UAB public lecture (part of Cyber Security Awareness Month).  "Safe Social Computing: The Danger of Being Friendly Online". 

Oct 22, 2007 – Congressional Internet Caucus luncheon panel, Washington, DC.  Topic: "Cyber Security Threat Assessment.

Oct 19, 2007 - "The BotNet Threat"- UAB public lecture as part of Cyber Security Awareness Month. 

Oct 15, 2007 - Alabama Banking Association technology committee meeting, Birmingham, AL.  Topic: “Phishing and Alabama Banks”. 

Oct 3, 2007 - AntiPhishing Working Group meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.  Topic: “NCFTA and the Digital PhishNet: Sharing Data for Increased Value”.

Oct 9, 2007 – Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Chapter meeting, Birmingham, AL.  Topic: "Identity Theft, Phishing, and Your Company" 

Oct 1, 2007 - attended the "Cyber Security Awareness Month" kick-off at

the National Press Club (participated in the afternoon's working group exercises)

Sep 10, 2007 - Birmingham InfraGard Meeting, Birmingham FBI Office –Topic: "Jihad in Historical Perspective"

Sep 5, 2007 - UAB faculty seminar: "Research in Computer Forensics" 

Aug 31, 2007 - prospective students luncheon - presented "Research in

Computer Forensics" to high school seniors 

Aug 14, 2007 - hosted joint meeting of Birmingham InfraGard / Birmingham

Electronic Crimes Task Force at UAB – Topic: "GAO: CyberCrime Challenges".

May 12, 2007 – Birmingham InfraGard Meeting – (three presentations) “The Estonia/Russia Distributed Denial of Service Attack” / “The Economics of DDOS” / “DDOS Response: Cutting the Head off the Snake” – (these presentations were chosen for distribution to the entire 19,000 member InfraGard organization via our secure portal at the Law Enforcement Online center.)

March 19-21, 2007 – SouthEast CyberCrime Summit – gave same presentation twice, Monday and Wednesday – each day with “live” examples from that morning – “PIRT: A Year of Fighting Phish”  (Kennesaw, GA)

March 13-15, 2007 – Birmingham Conference on Phishing – shared six presentations and lead two hands-on labs for 25 FBI, Secret Service, and local law enforcement attendees.  Sessions with Hands-on Labs:  “WHOIS (Attacking Me?)” / “Domain Names, Registrars, and Name Servers”  Sessions w/o Labs:  “Phishing: It All Starts With the Spam” / “Torpig” / “PIRT: Volunteers vs Phishers” / “Phish Kits: A Look at the Criminal’s Tools”

February 13, 2007 – Birmingham InfraGard Meeting – “Curiosity: The InfraGard Way – recent Case Studies” (Birmingham, AL)

January 30, 2007 – Magic City Technology Council Meeting – “Fighting CyberCrime with Computer Science” (Birmingham, AL)

January 22, 2007 – Sigma Psi Meeting – “Fighting CyberCrime With Computer Science” (Birmingham, AL)

January 9, 2007 – Birmingham InfraGard Meeting – “Torpig: The Most Advanced Banking Trojan of All Time” (Birmingham, AL)