Ep. 100: How Adversaries Are Using Social Media for Targeting
September 16, 2019
Hosted by George Rettas
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Episode Description
Chief Security Architect and Cyber Security Researcher Rich Wickersham, joins Hosts George Rettas and Andrew Bonillo to talk about how Nation State Groups and Organized Crime Organizations are using social media platforms like LinkedIn to target users of the system for nefarious purposes. Wickersham explains how targeting occurs on social media platforms and how users can better protect themselves from adversaries who wish to exploit vulnerabilities in their profiles, as well as their professional lives. He goes into detail on how bad guys can use TUA AI models to mine unauthenticated users of LinkedIn to gather information and data that can later be used to blackmail them or attack the businesses they work for. Wickersham also gave his opinion on the recent announcement by LinkedIn that they have purged their system of approximately 21 million accounts, as well as his opinion of the traditional social media attract, retain, monetize (ARM) model.
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George Rettas
George Rettas is one of the most well-known cyber security professionals in the world with extensive experience practicing cyber security in both the public and private sectors, Mr. Rettas is a serial entrepreneur, serving as the CEO and President of Task Force 7 Radio, LLC, and Task Force 7 Technologies, Inc. a company focusing on building the world’s first and only Professional Cyber Security Social Network. Mr. Rettas is also the President and CEO of Code X Entertainment, LLC, a company focused on producing television, movies, literary, digital, and merchandising products.
Mr. Rettas has worked for 12 years as a Managing Director and Partner in some of the world’s largest financial institutions holding executive management positions in cyber security operations, administration, and program management functions. He created the first Cyber Security Intelligence function in the financial services sector and detected some of the most prolific breaches in recent history, including Target breach and the JPMorgan Chase breach.
Mr. Rettas also served as a former Special Agent with the United States Secret Service, where he was the co-founder of the Newark Field Office Electronic Crimes Task Force. He is the author of the first Title III Wire Tap on an internet-facing computer network in United States history and he worked what is considered the most prolific criminal investigation in the history of the Secret Service in “Operation Firewall."
