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May 9, 2006 I wake up in the morning

was hard on a door tied to job

wouter wouter I still open

sleep drunk

I did that internship in curaçao and I

had worked that night and again

to open the paramotor

I think what is this look at what time it is

30 calls missed and then I thought so

is not good this may be possible

do with the joke that yesterday

on

so I open the door

see internship supervisor still enough

people stand and look at him closely and

the only thing they say is tell me that

it is not true wouter and I watched them

and I said yes I am afraid of it

so a few hours later I come

linea recta to the Netherlands and yes thereto

the customs arrived violently perspiring

I stood there nodding knees

you would almost think that this story is about

a drug smuggler goes but goes straight

about nate isacker

luckily I came through that customs

I just got through that

a bit of calm thought you know I did

a means of not being arrested and

go towards the Netherlands between good

sign I think about the kiosk

and I saw this at the kiosk

and there is an atention curaçao thief

blunder credit card information via hepa

front page news here I was

responsible for

think maybe you went from this story

yet about the ethical hacker are anyway

those people who have good intentions

to have

This is true even run something else and

think that we can learn from this

So just a step back in time how

this could have happened

but as I said I was running the internship

there a cat and she is incredibly angry

night shifts and this took place in

the SMS era

so what we did not have yet and I

was a student SMS costs money

so do it for free of course

and was a website happy and the cows

send a free text message

everyone knew that everyone uses them

also a

well at a given time day to so

quite easy as I might be

two text messages concealer so he is mine

Night shift is a bit of a look with

peeling and yes I am unlimited

texting

then I thought after this I must reported

neatly with that telecom society

I do not email them where I am

wouter i have done this and this and

maybe I can help you

did not get back a few days later

wouter top thank you okay

then I have nothing more from them

still heard that boring

night shifts

night after a short look through

some security songs in your bowl

you could not text certain numbers

so that’s what I at a given moment

to myself then I thought again must

will contact you because it is

just really not good

zurg lee mild so there is now also this

security around this does not seem right to me

wouter thank you exactly the same and me

heard nothing for weeks again so I thought about it

it will not take me seriously if it takes me

maybe a couple nothing worse

I think it is

Well, you know what it is like when you do that

age is also young and you think

of course not about that

consequences then you actually feel

a bit like putting superpower like

I looked had the idea that I was just like that

behind the computer was certainly also proud

my friends to say ah telecom

SMSing society and that’s what it’s all about

beach I said in theory I can

I also believe that there are number sms messages

the hamam the cuffs do a nice job

joke is pretty fun

so yes and they will not be so bad

find because under as still solved and

of course do not think about the

consequences and nature you started thinking

about what to do in my

stupid message what you can come up with

it has become

that the message has become sms now

credit card details to e-mail address and

in a car and the joke was at least

you can not text to an email address

was the idea

so idea was that people would do something like that

have silly message but

opposite happened people went

send their credit card in bulk

to this email address

What I also created a hole because yes

take a look

so outside that yes that email or that

SMS was sent on behalf of the

telecom company because everyone knew them

people trusted that but I sent

also a lot of text messages to the t

rather telephone traffic was disrupted

so people did not receive the message

times other people could not do anything

more with their phone some people

continued to remain a pique phone but

trailer parts day yes and now also had to

a rectification behind

becoming yes we are not

responsible for

well then it went wrong again because it

network because it just does not work

Well, let’s think about how this is

could have happened

I think there are some important lessons

that we can draw from this

no, I think it is very clear

that I may feel very bad

for humor, first of all

also very striking to see that

people so easily you data out

give hands

I ask for my credit card and nobody

hurry what is what the link is

how speed for being used is still

there are now also movies on youtube that

people just

to ask someone else about that question

just what is your password that someone

says evenings ask strange and does not matter

answer to a sequel and the bit

ask questions and also someone says yes okay

it is the first name of a very good friend

and literally give you your password

and so people just do not really think

like about another lesson

perhaps if the company procedures

had finished or had more serious

taken or even seriousness of the situation

that understood

this did not have to happen if they did

perhaps already the returned from well that

we are now doing this and doing what we think

you like me maybe something

felt important and I might

thinking of looking let us joke

but equally failure

obviously does not speak well I am the one

that joke was carried out and I think

the most important thing we might have here

see from hoof is yes

a stupid student joke

who can have telephone traffic

disrupt so what if someone

we want to leave real evil

look at some examples

2012 and have an anti bag that publishes

a list with so-called ipad addresses

scada systems online

scada systems are system to

to control measuring equipment outside

reading you can think of locks ground

bridges sewerage that kind of business

he does he has found out that

those systems directly to the internet

were linked and often not even one

password earlier so he could just

at the peer panel and locks and ground

to open and sometimes it was waiting

not changed

so one had your admin admin or something

like that many people think

than

so yes that is not good, he thought

so he is going to the national cyber

security center stepped

that is a yes branch of the government

specialized in home gerty

said you two weeks and then

I post everything online

well that he has done completely

anonymously that list came online when

there has been another work there

ethical hacker

who has looked at that list is one

green

him but his way solved that

he himself has birders of locks

determine and who has said

I listen I can leave the broth

to undergo this see well but on such

bear those who say yes I know

how that works so than all

not on the internet how do you get involved

so they break the connection and

dietetic hackers are like he is

not taken seriously it is the name

then that bear calls the still

back to support it until it is full

are really no harm you have quite

much technical knowledge needed for this

because they can control

Okay, but I work with that daily

systems say ethically hacker that what

is that for a nonsense argument

it is not good I can do everything here

I can leave it the other way around

working connection was broken he

think after this I have to do something with you

so that has a light on twitter

I do not hear taken seriously

manage this and that

one today has picked it up

their item is made of room questions

come over and it is in fast shipping

is solved but of course the Netherlands

of course not the first country where this is

naturally does not happen in America

a few years ago someone has left

distance cell door open

exactly in this way the consequences are

can be huge and yes the biggest

enemy of the Netherlands or one of the

biggest enemies is the water

well maybe you think yes to hackers

that is not one of those einzelgängers

corner sitting with a black t-shirt

that mathematical genius that can do everything

but that is not the case

9 out of 10 times or at least not

always nine of ten times

incredibly easy

well in this example of the locks

just like you use google for something

you also have to search for a system

search engine dress on the slide and you see

I search system in Netherlands I

got eight and half million results

then I can also get a lot of junk

properties so I can say now give

me but that

those scada systems and then I can

go see what is wrong with it

so what the heck has anti sec

done is nothing else

way we throw in some search terms and

just look by hand or that bowl

login

that’s all and that can be gigantic

affect

dance it but like this in the evil other

maybe a 13-year-old who comes

fences or natural interests

that stupid student in curaçao can

also complex and even bigger

consequences also an example of what is

actually happened in 2010 is one

virus

pieces just called that as a goal

to overturn the Iranian nuclear program

throw and the fascinating thing about this virus

is the way it is distributed

the virus is first in Iran

spread grams in normal people who

had nothing to do with the nuclear power plant

the nuclear power plants are closed

the internet was extremely secure

So nothing in there or come in

Outside

what have they done with the virus in

iran is that gram multiplies

one god the virus is doing is okay I am looking for

another computer and put it

themselves in the good hope that

eventually to virus in someone

would end up with something like that

nuclear power plant and which the

light that via a USB stick

would take in and would use

the computer and exactly that is after one

number of months happened and then only went

the viruses work when it was top location

what has it done there has the

centrifuges from that nuclear plant

it turned off

very important of this virus

in the meantime it did leave it to the bear

know that everything was okay that Saturday

their screens with all those meters

all green check marks top

nothing wrong months this is so

continued

meanwhile that virus is also outside here

ate of course continue to spread in

eventually also came to Russia

for example

there a security company has that

has it picked up that go figuring out

that came after it is called the focus

in Iran

when we were clear what the purpose was of

this virus

the virus does not come to be deleted

or something like that she was so complex and

difficult it was completely designed too

just to not be detectable

the creator had an end date

built in one after two years it is out

himself disappeared

it shows what the consequences can be

are what if this is wrong

hands and ends up instead of

to someone who turns off the nuclear power plant

it might just leave overtime

turning or an extra warm old until

it may be about heat and exploding or

something like that

about them they assume that the

American government was behind it

but that can not be said with certainty

of course

Well if we take a step back

and this is the global level it

most extreme example

so you probably do not think I have one

locks and ground you may enter the garden or one

nuclear power plant beautiful stories but this is

does not apply to me

but that is not a good idea

principle if you connect yourself with it

Internet a bit so you target

Every day I hear people who say

yes, but I can not get anything

and we have the system again become the piet

you’re a top guy at ten years you do them

work well yesterday asked if he did everything

check the

it does not work like that, it’s not about it

so much always who you are what you too

offer

sometimes it’s just about you

computer power when I am using your computer

can connect somewhere else

then I have your digital

identity

A bit of awareness is very important

also for smaller organizations

earth color

name the stroke to go rent once

in ethical hacking looks very different

against the matter yes because you yourself

is doing

good example for extra awareness

creating is a tool halftime one

pound

that is a bit of acker steel power

I’m actually crazy

and you are probably already there

4 billion accounts online from crazy

databases around the world I think

85% of this room probably link

tim used

linkedin is a few years ago

act those passwords that simply stand

I was online with your e-mail address

can just fill it in here and then

I get your password back to you

imagine I do not think everyone is you

they are regularly being falsified

then had to adjust and yes then I can

that maybe just out of reader

cup of web wants to log in and perhaps continue

help and other systems so terrible

it can be easy

this is hacking so I would say and search

it is on fill in your own data and

Always look emerges

just think about the consequences

are gigantic but it is also

we can actually be incredibly easy

argue that it is simply stumbled

but fortunately there are also good steps

undertaken to counter this

in recent years is a lot

changed and I come in daily with

touch with my work

basically it comes down to people

Slowly those hackers arrive are poor

are not the outsiders who are angry anymore

they want to be good people who want something

want to contribute

one of those measures

yes it is based on this example

made clear I have one last year

found fault

among others the abn amro site I come to the

website and I have this as

demonstration

I have this to the technicians of ABN

amro sent

what I did here is actually it

login form adapted and it seems

as if you can log in with digid

that is not so in the background

what sent to me but because one

arrangements have responsible disclosure

I am the ethical hacker

trust that I will not be prosecuted

and that this with the right people

it ends up

then I get feedback how

they hold the head to have taken seriously

and often I get as a thank you

t-shirt or something like that

very nice

by now, dekkers become tom like what

more appreciated for just a t-shirt

dress very proudly a t-shirt

what I have won but in it

extension of responsible disclosure

are the american companies something

continued to reward hackers

they have just literally said like

If you find something with us you will get there

just a nice reward for that

actually become a kind of

race between hackers to as much as possible

to find buks so if you look at what is there

in recent years through this kind

programs have been found

incredible

all things that you think of

nice what would have happened like this

just in those applications like

remain, for example, well I have

you also participated in it yourself

I thought of this happening to my once

professional field so I must also have one

try it once

Well that went pretty well within a year

I am in the global top 10

come while that top 10 over 4 years

exists now what is it so nice to

you see how the big organizations deal

with a notification but you also see how

others pen testers or you say the

people who test security how

to do that

They can measure it themselves, but what I

most of or the most app from the

app group is actually that

now can say that all is strong

large organizations small bigger

applications does not matter what

it is

everyone continued to draw tom’s with

incredible consequences

Okay we were vulnerable the past

look on the internet are a lot of

examples are still vulnerable

the tricks I did ten years ago

took out

who was I still today

they can just argue about that

they will still be there for a few years

people are vulnerable

errors make those mistakes end up on

the internet and someone makes one

abuse of

organizations and governments that

simply can not do this alone

but can not simply think of it

well that the plot someone else on so it

is very good that we are ethical

hackers have it take example of

those locks

those two ethical hackers were not

who knows what happened

one of the solutions I think is just

around arm that gives hackers that stage

let them tell a story

and also give them that t-shirt

last one to use super power

hug them because before you know it

send your credit card details to

caribbean island and make your student

stay and before you know it, it goes light

from

[Applause]

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