BlackHatEU : Keynote
April 14th, 2010
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By Max Kelly – CSO of Facebook
Max Keller moved from running a forensics lab to being the Chief Security Officer of Facebook.
Hit ticket slide is “Security – The facebook way”
Axiom 10: “That feature can be used in a way that you didn’t tink of. Try and find out what it is.”
This rule came into existence when they set up their new service friend finder. Which allows you to upload your address list and check if people where on facebook. It turned out that this service was using a lot of CPU because spammers used the service to validate the existence of email addresses to make their spam lists more valuable.
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