I'm Christopher Boyd, Senior Threat Researcher for Sunbelt Software, five time Microsoft
MVP and former Director of Malware Research for FaceTime
Security Labs. I've also been thanked by Google for my contribution to security and responsible disclosure,
and Vitalsecurity.org is a CNET Top 100 Blog and one of the 15 top Datamation
security blogs of 2009.
I’ve appeared in printed press such as The Telegraph and The Metro, and spoken on Canadian radio, The David Lawrence show, BBC Newsround, Spanish television and BBC radio.
I've spoken at the following conferences, and have also talked about security to smaller groups in Singapore, London and Spain:
ASC 2006, Wash. DC - Tracking Spyware Across Borders, Katherine Tassi (Washington State AG) and Maneesha Mithal (FTC) as co-speakers
RSA 2007, California - Botnet Live, Wayne Porter as co-speaker
InfoSec Europe 2007, London - Botnet Attacks
Antispyware Coalition Conference 2007, Boston - The Internationalisation of Spyware
Antispyware Coalition Conference 2008, Washington DC - CSI Spyware with Lance James & Alex Eckelberry
RSA 2008, California - Hacking & the Echo Boom generation, Robert Vamosi as co-speaker
InfoSec Europe 2008, London - Social Networking in the workplace
SecTor 2009, Canada: Game Over Man - Gamers Under Fire
Areas of research include Botnets, Spam, Phishing, P2P, Instant Messaging, Ad/Spy/Malware, Worms, Social Networking attacks / exploits
and videogame console exploitation. You can see a list of my research finds here.
