Security and Spam Fighting at Facebook
John Lyle ( Facebook )
- 14:00 21st November 2014 ( week 6, Michaelmas Term 2014 )Tony Hoare Room, Robert Hooke Building
How do you keep a system with 1.3 billion users both secure and (mostly) spam-free? This talk will describe some of the biggest challenges in spam fighting and security at Facebook, as well as going into more detail about one specific mechanism - our system for detecting compromised passwords - and how we use it to prevent phishing attacks.
Speaker bio
John Lyle is a software engineer at Facebook working on the Site Integrity team. John works primarily on Facebook's anti-phishing system which helps protect the accounts of people who may have had their credentials compromised. Before joining Facebook, John was a post-doctoral researcher and DPhil student at The University Of Oxford investigating usable access control and authentication for cross-platform mobile web applications.Share this:
