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November 18,2004

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This seminar is for anyone who is involved in software development. The author takes a pragmatic view of each of these processes, which is a change from the evangelical view one often gets.

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October 26,2004

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September 29,2004

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Gene will present the concept of self-funded ABCs (Acquisition-Bound Companies) and the ways to research, develop and position competitive (software) product features with the goal of selling the technology within a year.
Gene Linetsky, Zone Labs’ Vice President of Research and Development, has extensive technology experience spanning secure real-time communication protocols, large-scale Web applications, cross-platform development environments, compilers, and sales automation systems. Mr. Linetsky co-founded two software startups, IMsecure Corp. (acquired by Zone Labs) and Ultris, Inc. (acquired by Saba Software). He has also held technology leadership positions at Saba Software, Mattel, and The Learning Company, shipping both enterprise-class solutions and consumer software titles. Previously, in his native Russia, Mr. Linetsky pioneered computer science curriculum for high schools, developed educational software for children, and co-authored a computer science textbook with over 3 million copies in print.

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August 25,2004

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Steve Manning is Director of Product Management at Narus where he is responsible for developing carrier security solutions to detect and mitigate worm and denial of service attacks.  Prior to Narus, Mr. Manning worked as a product manager at VeriSign, where he designed and launched the company’s first payments fraud detection platform “Fraud Protection Services”.  The Fraud Protection Services platform secured over 1 Million transactions a day for over 100,000 online merchants.

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July 28,2004

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Mr. Kadison’s presentation will focus on a high-level look at fraud detection and prevention within the PayPal platform.  Afterwards, he will discuss the various approaches that are being taken by the major industry players (including eBay and PayPal) to combat an increasingly organized and dangerous criminal threat to the Internet’s ultimate commercial promise: identity theft.

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July 28,2004

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From sensor and control networks to public safety systems, vendors are touting mesh networks as the next revolution in wireless communications.  We will discuss the different approaches to mesh networking, the challenges, as well as the market segments where this approach is gaining traction

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June 30,2004

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Worm activity is swamping IDS sensors. Smart, dedicated and focused hackers can use worm attacks to their advantage to mask and hide their activity. What's an Information Security team to do to keep an eye both on the storms of activities triggered by the worms and on the activities of a lone hacker who is not triggering that many bells?

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February 11, 2004

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• Public key cryptography (RSA, PGP). Hybrid cryptosystems.
• Real stream ciphers. Corresponding block cipher modes, OFB, CTR. RC4. Why 802.11b security is a joke.
• Authentication. Man-in-the-middle attack. Interlock protocol.
• Symmetric key authentication (MAC, CBC-MAC, HMAC, Kerberos).
• Public key authentication (RSA/PGP digital signatures)
• PKI. Why it sucks.
• SSL.

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December 3, 2003

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The Art and Science of Data Mining

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November 12, 2003

WHAT

• Symmetric key cryptography.
• Ideal stream cipher. One time Pad. Traffic analysis. Multiple-key cryptography. Key splitting. Cascading ciphers.
• Ideal hash functions. Cryptographically secure hash functions. Birthday attack. Meet-in-the-middle attack. CRC32, MD5, SHA. Make cosmetic changes to the document you sign. Length-extension attack. H(X,m). Partial message collision attack H(m,X). Fix the hash function. H(H(m),m)), H(H(m)).
• Ideal block cipher.
• Real block ciphers. Types of attack: ciphertext-only, chosen plaintext, chosen ciphertext, iterative chosen plaintext/ciphertext. Side-channel/out-of-band attacks (timing, power, RF, optical, malfunction). DES, 3DES, IDEA, AES. Whatever happenned to double-DES? Block cipher modes (ECB, CBC).