Courtney Falk, The Bride of the Pod People

Courtney Falk will discuss his ongoing research into Pod People, the ongoing search-engine optimization spam campaign. This talk combines threat hunting and threat intelligence with real-world applications including insights into how cybercriminals work and how organizations can collaborate. All publicly-accessible indicators collected by this project are published online to contribute to the good of the commons. About the speaker: Dr. Courtney Falk is an information security professional with over fifteen years of experience in the government, academic, and public sectors.  He earned his doctorate of philosophy from Purdue University in the interdisciplinary information security program.  When Courtney is not researching critical infrastructure for Purdue, he enjoys painting miniature figures and playing tabletop war games.