Hector Monsegur

The State of Security

Hector lectures on how Solarwinds is still a problem and how to handle it.

Audience takeaways:

• He tells personal stories regarding recent Supply chain attacks
• The challenges of backup recovery and mitigating potential damage
• Tips to maintaining a safe online experience that tend to be overlooked.

Storage and Recovery: Risks, Reward and Redundancy

Conversations around storage and recovery

Audience takeaways:

• Hector discusses storage and recovery and the challenges that it presents, the solutions that are being widely adopted, and their deficiencies.

Cybersecurity, a human problem not a systems problem.

Hector discuss his personal experiences on the issue that plagues cybersecurity the most, human error.

Audience takeaways:

• He examines how we deal with disinformation and social engineering and the human element.
• Hector tells different stories on how human error exposed companies to being hacked and what can be done to prevent it.

Security Best Practices

This lecture is on general security topics and includes specific software and trends in cyberspace that are popular.

Audience takeaway:

• Hector also give his perspective as a Blackhat, being a Redhat team leader and the direction he see’s security and hacking going.

My Journey Into The Cyber-Security Industry

In this autobiographical lecture Hector details how he grew up on the Lower East Side with an aunt that was a major heroin dealer to becoming the defecto head of Anonymous a infamous hacking collective.

Hector recounts how his obsessive curiosity and raw intelligence empowered him to learn about computer systems and eventually infiltrate the most secure targets in the world. autobiographical lecture

Audience takeaways:

• 6 months of high school, 8 months as informant, 20 years hacking
• Why I was called the de facto head of Anonymous: Hint: Wired/Vice/ARS Technica
• Indictments for PayPal, MasterCard, Visa, Federal contractors, Tunisia, Algeria, Zimbabwe, FBI Non Profits, Bethesda (Gaming Company), Nintendo, US Senate, PBS/Frontline
• Getting caught
• A walk through what a FBI Indictment looks like, and what to do when you get yours.
• Bringing dictatorships to its knees and fueling The Arab Spring
• From Black Hat to White Black: My life today

What Is It and How Did We Get Here

In this lecture Hector examines the mind and exploits of the hacker of today and past generations. He details the unique climate that allowed for people to become hackers and how this inner world works

Audience takeaways:

• History of hacking
• What makes hacking appealing to people
• Choosing targets
• Hacktavisim: Hacking for a good cause
• Infamy: I’m not a geek, dude.
• Spying on those who spy on you: State Sponsored Hacking
• Greatest hacks and how they were done: Sony, Tunisia,
• Visa/MasterCard, US Government, and the ones you never heard of.
• Hack Olympics: The quest to out do your peers
• How hacking tools work: Hackers Hardware and software
• The history of hacking as told through the top 10 hacks done to date.

In this lecture Hector traces the evolution of the technical and social realities to reveal how these hacks manifested. He also looks at the road ahead to forecast what he see’s as the next generation of hacks.