Profile of David Holmes

World-Wide Security Evangelist, F5

Member Since: 1/27/2015
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News & Commentary Posts: 8
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David Holmes is the world-wide security evangelist for F5 Networks. He writes and speaks about hackers, cryptography, fraud, malware and many other InfoSec topics. He has spoken at over 30 conferences on all six developed continents, including RSA Europe in Amsterdam, InfoSec in London and Gartner Data Center in Las Vegas.

David writes a bi-weekly column at SecurityWeek, and has had the good fortune to write for DarkReading, SC Magazine, Network World and many other computer security magazines and websites. He has three patents pending for F5 and still contributes code to open-source projects such as OpenSSL.

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Deconstructing a Business Email Compromise Attack

3/29/2018
How a tech-savvy New Jersey couple outwitted a German hacker group and saved their home and life savings.
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The Mirai Botnet Is Attacking Again…

2/15/2018
And the spinoff bots — and all their command and control hostnames buried in the morass of digital data — are hilarious.
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'Reaper': The Professional Bot Herder’s Thingbot

11/16/2017
Is it malicious? So far it's hard to tell. For now it's a giant blinking red light in security researchers faces warning us that we’d better figure out how to secure the Internet of Things.
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5 Reasons Why the CISO is a Cryptocurrency Skeptic

10/26/2017
If you think all you need is technology to defend against bad guys, you shouldn’t be a CISO. But technology is all cryptocurrency is, starting with Bitcoin.
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How Quantum Computing Will Change Browser Encryption

8/24/2017
From a protocol point of view, we’re closer to a large-scale quantum computer than many people think. Here’s why that’s an important milestone.
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Profile of a Hacker: The Real Sabu

7/20/2017
There are multiple stories about how the capture of the infamous Anonymous leader Sabu went down. Here’s one, and another about what he is doing today.
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Cloud & The Security Skills Gap

7/6/2015
F5 Network security evangelist David Holmes tells how cloud outsourcing can help companies fill the talent gap in three critical areas of enterprise security.
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How The Skills Shortage Is Killing Defense in Depth

1/30/2015
It used to be easy to sell specialized security gizmos but these days when a point product gets pitched to a CSO, the response is likely “looks nifty, but I don’t have the staff to deploy it.”
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