DEFCON 16: They're Hacking Our Clients! Introducing Free Client-side Intrusion Prevention

Speaker: Jay Beale, Senior Security Consultant and Co-Founder, Intelguardians Network Intelligence, Inc.

In the face of far stronger firewall and IPS-protected perimeters,attackers are compromising far more systems by hacking our web browsers, e-mail clients, and office document tools. Unfortunately,vulnerability assessment practices still focus on checking listening services, even on workstations. Detecting vulnerable clients is left for patch management tools, which aren't in consistent or wide enough use. Even when organizations are able to invest the time and money in a patch management system, a series of critical problems keeps the botnet builders in business.This talk, by Bastille UNIX creator Jay Beale, introduces a free tool to detect vulnerable clients and keep them out of the botnets.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• client
• tools
• vulnerable
• system