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1. State of Bitcoin Security
Bojan Simic
@bojansimic @cryptosecurity
bojan@bitcoinsecurityproject.org

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When it comes to security….

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Remember the 5th of November

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Enigma Machine in WW2

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Need a Debit Card?

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Internet Security
Target –
70,000,000 credit
card records
Adobe –
38,000,000 CC
numbers &
user accounts
American Business Hack
– 160,000,000 credit card
numbers and bank
accounts
SONY PSN –
77,000,000 User
Accounts
US Military –
76,000,000 SSNs of
Veterans
Top 4 hacks of 2013 resulted in 575 MILLION compromised accounts!

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Bitcoin (In)security
Bitcoin Savings
& Trust

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Why?

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Hackers are getting smarter, there’s more of them,
and there are more targets every day
91% of surveyed companies had a security incident in the last 12 months.

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So what can you do about it?

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The average security breach costs $50,000 – $650,000
Security
Policy
Physical
Security
Secure
Storage
Application
Security
Manage
Access
Network
Security
Internal
Security

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Hire or train developers qualified in security
18.8%
77.0%
70.0%
30.0%
55.0%
40.0%
51.0%
61.0%
69.0%
24.0%
Protecting Sensitive Data
Preventing Injection Attacks
Preventing XSS
Access Control Strategy
Business Function Access Control
Data Layer Access Control
Securing User Sessions
Managing Identities in Apps
Using SSL
Threat Modeling for Apps
Developer’s Scores
Companies that train developers in security have 73% less vulnerabilities

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Store your bitcoins securely!
Paper Wallet
COLD STORAGE!
Smaller businesses are victims of cyber crimes more often than big firms

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Encrypt EVERYTHING!
• Transactions
• Passwords
• SSNs
• Addresses
• Images
• Credit Cards
• DOB
• Other PII…
73% of Americans have been victims of a cyber security crime

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Take advantage of free resources & tools

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Start a security bug bounty!
Fixing a security vulnerability post-release costs 30X more than in dev

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(Donations)
• Follow @cryptosecurity
• Sign up at bitcoinsecurityproject.org
• bojan@bitcoinsecurityproject.org