Facebook Doles Out $100K for Internet Defense Prize

Winners developed a new method of detecting spearphishing in corporate networks.

A team of researchers today was awarded a $100,000 prize from Facebook for their work in detecting spearphishing attacks.
Facebook awarded its Internet Defense Prize award to Grant Ho, University of California, Berkeley; Aashish Sharma, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Mobin Javed, University of California, Berkeley; Vern Paxson, University of California, Berkeley and International Computer Science Institute; and David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley, who authored
Detecting Credential Spearphishing Attacks in Enterprise Settings
.
The researchers came up with a method of detecting spearphishing in corporate networks that doesnt trigger a large number of false positive alerts, according to Facebook.
Read more about the award on Facebooks
blog
.

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