Panel
Protecting the Web: Phishing, Malware,
and Other Security Threats
Organizer:
Greg Aaron
Afilias
+1-215-706-5700
gaaron@afilias.info
Katharine A. Bostik
Microsoft Corporation,
South East Asia
Edmon Chung
DotASIA Organisation,
Rod Rasmussen
Internet Identity
United States
PANEL SUMMARY
Web site operators, Internet users, and online service providers are
besieged by a growing array of abuses and threats.� Spam leads
users to online scams and phishing
Web pages, which cyber-criminals use to steal users� financial data and
passwords.� Other criminals use Web sites
to spread malware, which can steal
personal data or take over users� computers into a botnet, which can be used to send spam or mount cyber-attacks against
Web sites and other Internet services.�
Together, these abuses undermine user trust, hamper e-commerce, and cost
the Internet community huge losses in money, service and support costs, and
time.
What should Web site operators and online service providers do to
protect themselves and their users?� What
are Internet companies, organizations, and law enforcement doing (and not
doing) to combat these problems?� And how
can the international Internet community work together on these problems?牋 The panel brings together representatives
from the chain of organizations that respond to Internet abuse problems, and
promises a lively, compelling, and relevant discussion.
Categories & Subject Descriptors: K.4.1 [Public
Policy Issues]: Abuse and Crime Involving Computers
General Terms: Security, Legal Aspects, Reliability
Copyright is held by the
author/owners WWW2008,
April 21-25, 2008, ACM 978-1-60558-085-2/08/04.Panelists Positions |
Katharine Bostik, Microsoft
Corporation,
Katharine is Microsoft抯 Senior Director of Legal and
Corporate Affairs in
Rod Rasmussen, Internet
Rod is widely
recognized as a leading expert on the abuse of the domain name system by
phishing criminals.� He is co-founder of
Internet Identity, which provides anti-phishing services to hundreds of large
and small banks and financial institutions in the
Edmon Chung, DOTAsia Organisation,
Edmon is CEO of DotAsia Organisation, the operator of the new
.ASIA top-level domain. DotAsia is a not-for-profit, community-based
organisation based in
Greg Aaron, Afilias, United States
Greg is Director of Key Account Management and Domain Security at
Afilias.� He serves on the steering
committee of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), the international
pan-industrial and law enforcement association focused on eliminating identity
theft resulting from phishing, pharming, and email spoofing of all types.� His company, Afilias, operates the .INFO
top-level domain (TLD) and provides technical and advising services for thirteen
other TLDs, including .ORG and .IN (
Additional
Panelist to be announced