General Sessions
Speakers: Allison Nixon, Unit 221b
Chairs: Alex Brotman, Data and Identity Protection Chair
You may have heard of this novel form of fraud. SIM swap emerged in 2016 as a method to steal large Bitcoin wallets, but the technique has proliferated since then. While we continue to see SIM swap used as a method to steal social media accounts and Bitcoin wallets, it has also branched out into theft of traditional financial accounts, harassment, and a vector for corporate breaches. Allison Nixon will speak about the current remediation efforts and why the problem hasn't been fixed yet, and what this means for you as you seek to protect yourself and your organization.
Allison Nixon is a threat researcher, verifier of leaks, and hunter of humans. She has been a background source for numerous investigations and articles that focus on the post-breach issue of "who dunnit?". She performs original threat research and is at the forefront of answering questions that people have not yet thought to ask. In 2013, she spoke at Blackhat about bypassing DDOS protection. In 2014, she released a paper detailing methods for vetting leaked data. She has been looking into the issue of "booters" and DDOS services. She researches DDOS attribution, cybercrime attribution, and criminal communities. In her spare time she grows tomatoes and makes puns.