Nitesh Dhanjani is a well known information security researcher, author, and speaker. Dhanjani is currently Senior Manager at Ernst & Young LLP where he is responsible for advising some of the largest corporations on how to establish enterprise wide information security programs and solutions. Dhanjani is also responsible for evangelizing brand new technology service lines around emerging technologies and trends such as cloud computing and virtualization. Prior to E&Y, Dhanjani was Senior Director of Application Security and Assessments at Equifax where he spearheaded brand new security efforts into enhancing the enterprise SDLC, created a process for performing source code security reviews & threat modeling, and managed the attack & penetration team. Before Equifax, Dhanjani was Senior Advisor at Foundstone's Professional Services group where, in addition to performing security assessments, he contributed and taught Foundstone's Ultimate Hacking security courses. Dhanjani is the author of "Network Security Tools: Writing, Hacking, and Modifying Security Tools" (O'Reilly) and "HackNotes: Linux and Unix Security" (Osborne McGraw-Hill). He is also a contributing author to "Hacking Exposed 4" (Osborne McGraw-Hill) and "HackNotes: Network Security"(Osborne McGraw-Hill). Dhanjani has been invited to talk at various information security events such as the Black Hat Briefings, RSA, Microsoft Blue Hat, Hack in the Box, and OSCON. Dhanjani graduated from Purdue University with both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Computer Science.

Mr. Dhanjani will discuss SUDDENLY PSYCHIC: KNOWING EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYONE. This talk will expose how information about people in the physical world, coupled with voluntary information from new communication paradigms such as social networking applications, can enable you to remotely capture people’s feelings and influence their behavior. Topics of discussion will include: Techniques on how individuals may be remotely influenced by focused marketing and messaging tactics, and how criminal groups and governments may use this capability. Reconnaissance and pillage of confidential information, including intellectual properties owned by businesses. Falsified profiles used to construct undeserved reputation as well as the risk of reputation tarnish, Remote behavior analysis that can be used to construct personality profiles to predict current and future psychological states of targeted individuals, including discussions on how emotional and subconscious states can be discovered even before the target is consciously aware. This topic will be extended to demonstrate the possibility of criminal abuse and the enablement of economic drivers. Decreasing the value of social networks through data poisoning attacks. The goal of this presentation is to raise consciousness on how the new paradigms of social communication bring with it real risks as well as marketing and economic advantages. Perspectives on negative and positive uses will be presented in addition to academic discussions and thoughts on how to enable the upcoming online social age.