SPEAKERS

This is a provisional list of speakers for Access All Areas III. Additional speakers will be announced as they are confirmed.


  • ROSS ANDERSON debunks computer security claims. In the early 90's he acted as an expert witness in cases involving the "phantom withdrawals" from cash machines that banks said couldn't happen. Recently he has helped explode the myth that smartcards are secure. In real life, he teaches computer science at Cambridge University.

  • RICHARD COX is the principal consultant at Madarin Technology specialising in all aspects of telecommunications licensing and regulation, including national telecommunications numbering systems. Richard also writes and broadcasts as a freelance journalist specialising in telecomms regulatory and consumer issues, and pursues issues such as overcharging on phone bills, and other areas of public interest.

  • DAVE GREEN believes himself to be Britain's most mediocre Internet journalist. Either that, or Britain's most technically literate stand-up comedian. He has covered "geek culture" for Wired magazine (When it was still cool), The Daily Telegraph (Before it suddenly became cool), BBC GLR and Radio 1 (Make up your own minds). Still, he has yet to fully recapture the glories of his youth, when he wrote games on the ZX Spectrum and wrote the definitive joke about things that never happen in Star Trek.

  • HARL is part psychologist and part webmaster of DigitalMindStream, a hang out for all sorts of unsavoury online reprobates. He is socially unskilled, largely overweight and can only express himself through his evil online alter-ego. However, he will be fully medicated and so will suppress his sociopathic urges to present a talk on "The Psychology of Social Engineering". This talk will cover the psychological mechanisms involved in social engineering and how this sort of attack can be foiled.

  • STEPHEN KAPP is a consultant for Reaper Technologies. A computer programmer interested in cryptography, computer security and computer viruses. Stephen is the author of RSAEuro - a cryptographic toolkit.

  • NICK LOCKETT is an in-house barrister at Field Fisher Waterhouse, the top London solicitors where he is specialises in telecoms, information technology, computer and Internet law.

  • MICHAEL McCORMACK is the editor of monitor. Michael writes about hacking and Internet issues for publications such as .Net magazine and Computer Fraud and Security Bulletin. He also covers technology issues for most of the British national papers.

  • DAN O'BRIEN hacks the media. His work includes a one man show about his 80’s hacking experiences which transferred to the West End, writing for Wired, and appearences on TV and Radio as "some sort of expert". He also presents "Guerrilla TV", the BBC 2 show about camcorder activism. He currently edits Need To Know, the British geekzine. He will talk a lot of theory, but promises to include code listings!

  • ROBERT SCHIFREEN was arrested in 1984 and charged with a number of hacking offences. His famous Prestel hack resulted in him and his colleague Steve Gold gaining system-manager access to the entire Prestel network and to accounts including that of Prince Philip. Robert is now the editor and publisher of The Computer Security Encyclopaedia, and runs a free BBS for professional IT security personnel.

  • DR ALAN SOLOMON began research in the anti-virus field in 1988, after experience in a variety of areas including defence systems, forecasting, corporate planning and stockbroking. In 1988 he designed the first version of the Anti-Virus Toolkit, which was launched early in 1989. As founder of S&S International Plc, he continues to work closely with the programming team on the Toolkit. Much of his time is spent lecturing around the world on security issues. He is co-founder and technical director of EICAR, the European Institute of Computer Anti-Virus Research, is Chairman of the IBM PC User Group and one of the consultants to the Computer Crime Unit. Dr Solomon has extensive experience in the field of viruses and has been called out to deal with a number of outbreaks in major corporations.

  • LORENZO VALERI is a researcher in the Information Warfare Programme at the International Centre for Security Analysis which is the consultancy arm of the Department of War Studies at King's College, London. Lorenzo has been published in several Italian journals about international affairs and new threats to national security. He is also an external researcher for the Italian Armed Forces' Military Center for Strategic Studies and has written about non-lethal weapons and non-military threats to security.