COMPANY NEWS

January 31, 2012  The February issue of Global Gaming Business magazine includes an article (http://ggbmagazine.com/issue/vol-11-no-2-february-2012/article/beyond-the-obvious) written by SeNet’s CTO.  The article covers the recent regulation in the state of Nevada legalizing online gaming and the security risks that companies must consider.  Please contact SeNet with any questions regarding online gaming security and be sure to visit PokerSec.org for more information.

 

January 23, 2012  The presentation that SeNet’s CTO gave at Defcon over the summer has been released on their Website.  While the information is a little dated, it is still an interesting and informative video to watch.  With regulation of online gaming on the horizon and the launch of SeNet’s online gaming services and our partnership with PokerSec.org, we feel that this is an up-and-coming sector where information security will play an important role.

 

January 2012.  In order to provide the most comprehensive online gaming security services, SeNet is pleased to announce our partnership with HH Smithy in launching PokerSec (www.pokersec.org).  HH Smithy is a leading data mining company in the online gaming arena.  Additionally, HH Smithy has released several security advisories on gaming sites.  HH Smithy’s experience and SeNet’s proven track record of providing information security services, conducting research, and publishing online gaming security articles combine to make our team uniquely qualified.  Please review our online gaming security services and contact us with any questions or requests at gus.fritschie@senet-int.com.

 

November 2011.  The Program Support Center (PSC), a component of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has asked Gus Fritschie to present at the HHS Cyber Technical Exchange located at the Computer Security Incident Response Center (CSIRC) in Atlanta, GA on December 7, 2011.  Mr. Fritschie will discuss PSC’s approach to performing penetration testing and the presentation will cover several case studies to illustrate the process and results.  SeNet has been supporting PSC since 2010 in performing Security Test and Evaluation (ST&E) and penetration testing.  SeNet was recently awarded a contract extension that included a staffing increase.

 

October 2011. Based on the research that SeNet's CTO has been performing in the field of computer security in the online gaming industry, he was asked to write a series of articles for an independent online gaming news site.  Check out the article located here http://pokerfuse.com/features/comment-analysis/what-poker-regulators-and-players-must-learn-about-computer-security/.

 

September 2011. SeNet International is pleased to announce that our engineers James Watson and Gus Fritschie have been selected to speak at the Hack3rCon 2011 conference (10/21 - 10/23) in Charleston, WV.

James will be presenting on the dangers of Internet gaming and highlight cases of criminal activities in conjunction with on-line gaming. Gus will use the conference forum to shed light on the security vulnerabilities of online poker.

Hack3rCon is in its second year and is attended by the top information security (infosec) practitioners, researchers and developers. For more information, visit http://hack3rcon.org. 

 

August 2011.  On August 24th, SeNet's CTO, Gus Fritschie, gave a presentation at the Library of Congress.  The subject was social engineering and phishing attacks, which can be downloaded here.  The presentation covered PII attack vectors, social engineering, phishing and spear phishing attacks, the Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) and Metasploit, case studies, and more.  To find out how SeNet can assist in performing security awareness training or perform social engineering assessments, please contact Mr. Fritschie.

The security awareness program at the Library of Congress puts on bi-monthly presentations from industry leaders in order to better educate their user base.  SeNet was honored to be asked to present and looks forward to future involvement.

 

July 2011. At the Defcon conference in Las Vegas, SeNet’s CTO presented at the conference on security vulnerabilities in online poker.  Online poker is a multi-million dollar industry that is rapidly growing but is not highly regulated. There have been "hacks" recently (i.e., weak SSL implementation, superuser account) that have drawn more attention to security in the poker industry, especially as it moves to full regulation in the United States. This talk covered the technical architecture of online poker, existing security controls, examples of past vulnerabilities, new weaknesses we have discovered in the poker clients and surrounding infrastructure, and next steps of research we are performing in this area.  Use this link for more information.

July 2011. On July 19th, Gus Fritschie, SeNet’s CTO, presented a paper at the USDA Security Conference in Washington, DC.  The presentation was titled “Protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Using Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) Technologies.”  The talk covered  attack vectors used to obtain PII, methods to protect PII, and an overview of how DLP can be used as part of the continuous monitoring phase in the risk management framework.  Our industry partner Safend was also present at the conference.  If you have any questions or would like to discuss DLP technologies, please contact Mr. Fritschie.

 

October 2010. SeNet was awarded a task order to support PSC, a unit of the Department of Health and Human Services. The task includes IV&V and various IT security testing activities.