The Southern Nevada InfraGard Chapter will meet on Tuesday, July 15, 2008, in the Jewel Case Room at the Clark County Library, 1401 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, Nevada. The meeting will begin at 11:30 a.m. following lunch, which will be served at 11:00 a.m. Lunch will be partnered by USDN Network Security, www.usdn.net.

Due to the sensitive nature of the information being presented at this meeting, ONLY SECURED INFRAGARD MEMBERS WILL BE ALLOWED TO ATTEND THIS MEETING. This meeting’s guest speaker will be Scott K. Larson, Managing Director of Stroz Friedberg, LLC, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Larson’s topic will be, "A Case Study of Wireless Hacking, Anonymous E-Mails and On-Line Extortion."

The session will focus upon the hunt for a bio-weapon extortionist who used spoofed emails containing sexual patents and open wireless access points from unsuspecting citizens to harass customers of a patent research firm. Learn the advanced techniques used to analyze the e-mail linguistics from several "authors," the use of a web-bug to help identify a main operating location of the suspect, and helpful liaison methods with the FBI that helped catch the extortionist. Both cyber and physical security aspects of the case will be discussed by Mr. Larson, a former FBI Supervisory Special Agent. Mr. Larson received an FBI Director’s award as the lead investigative consultant on the case.

Individuals who want to apply for membership to the InfraGard program can do so by completing an application at www.SouthernNevadaInfraGard.org. Questions should be addressed to FBI Special Agent John Herman at (702) 657-5409.