Cybersecurity Seminar

Title:  Accessible Cyber Security, Understanding the Equifax Hack

Speaker:  Elizabeth Hughes, Java Agent Engineering, Contrast Security

Date and Time: Wednesday, November 1, 2017,  5:30 (pizza), 6:00-7:00 (seminar)

Location: YR 459 - Department Conference Room

Abstract

Equifax's failure to update a common Java library cost them and the average American dearly. The Struts 2 library, like many Java libraries, contains numerous vulnerabilities, leaving Equifax and other applications that use it open to devastating attacks.  If we are going to protect ourselves from these attacks, we need to understand how they work. This talk dives deep into the exploit that destroyed Equifax and how we can prevent attacks like it in the future.