This document discusses social engineering and related projects. It begins with an introduction to social engineering, defining it as manipulating people to take actions they normally wouldn't. It then discusses the Project SAVE, a Danish project that conducted reconnaissance and 185 social engineering attacks on 3 infrastructure companies, with a 47% success rate. It also discusses the Dogana project, an EU-funded effort to develop an advanced social engineering platform and test it in field trials. It concludes with speculation about future social engineering, such as fully automated Twitter spear phishing bots and ransomware targeting IoT devices and impacting physical systems.
Title: Welcome to the world of Cyber Threat Intelligence!
Abstract: Welcome to the world of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)! During this presentation, we will discuss about some of the basic concepts within CTI domain and we will have a look at the current threat landscape as observed from the trenches. The presentation is split into 3 parts: a) Intro to CTI, b) A view at the current threat landscape, and c) CTI analyst skillset.
Short Bio: Andreas Sfakianakis is a Cyber Threat Intelligence and Incident Response professional and works for Standard and Poors' CTI team. He is also a member of ENISA’s CTI Stakeholders’ Group and Incident Response Working Group. He is the author of a number of CTI reports and an instructor of CTI. In the past, Andreas has worked within the Financial and Oil & Gas sectors as well as an external reviewer for European Commission. Andreas' Twitter handle is @asfakian and his website is www.threatintel.eu
Ethical Hacking vs Penetration Testing vs Cybersecurity: Know the Difference?PECB
Ethical hacking helps organizations in preventing the exploitation and vulnerabilities of their system’s data.
Today, several real-world testing methods are used to avoid cyber-attacks and secure important data from exploitation.
The webinar covers
• Ethical Hacking
• Penetration Testing
• Differences and Similarities
• Types & Stages of Penetration Testing
• Cybersecurity
• Impact of COVID-19 on Cybersecurity
Presenters:
Carl Carpenter
Carl is a former CISO of a $6B entity where he was responsible for protecting data of all types and regulatory environments such as FFIEC, HIPAA, and PCI as well as working with the FBI, IRS, and US Department of Labor around investigations relating to money laundering. He has performed assessments against Fortune 10 and 50 companies in the areas of GDPR, CCPA, ISO/IEC 27001 and currently performs CMMC assessments as well as CMMC pre-audit support to help ensure a successful CMMC audit. Prior to that, Carl retired from the US Military where he was involved in counter-terrorist, counter-narcotics, counter-intelligence operations and training foreign military members in these same concepts. Carl is also a PECB trainer in ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27032, and CMMC Foundations and holds numerous other certifications.
In 2016, Carl joined Arrakis Consulting where he started as an auditor and providing CISO-as-a-Service to small or medium sized companies that needed more experience without increased cost. In 2017, Carl added active penetration testing to his portfolio of skills and routinely performs penetration tests against companies of all sizes. Carl also trains people on a variety of skills such as penetration testing, network engineering, network administration, OSI model, subnetting, etc…
Carl holds a Bachelors from Western Governors University in Network Security and Operations as well as numerous certifications from ITIL, Cisco, CompTIA, Microsoft, CMMC-AB, ISACA, OneTrust, RSA, PCI Council, Citrix, and Novell
Andreas Christoforides
Mr. Christoforides is an active IT auditor and a trainer for a various organization on Information Security Management Systems. He is a member of the Cyprus Computer Society, a PECB certified trainer for ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 22301 and GDPR CDPO, and a former Deputy Head of IT Infrastructure at a Bulgarian Leading Bank.
In 2019, he joined BEWISE and delivered to clients a wide range of Cybersecurity projects in the areas of strategy, governance and risk management, data privacy and protection (GDPR), and business resilience and recovery. He conducts IT Risk Assessments and develops IT policies and procedures towards establishing an effective and secure IT Governance framework.
Mr. Christoforides holds a BEng degree from Birmingham City University and a variety of other qualifications from Microsoft and CISCO.
YouTube video: https://youtu.be/cTrdBZFIFhM
Website link: https://pecb.com/
Cyber threat intelligence: maturity and metricsMark Arena
From SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit 2016. What are the characteristics of a mature cyber threat intelligence program, and how do you develop meaningful metrics? Traditionally, intelligence has been about providing decision
support to executives whilst the field of cyber threat intelligence supports this customer, and network defenders, who have different requirements. By using the intelligence cycle, this talk will
seek to help attendees understand how they can identify what a mature intelligence program looks like and the steps to take their program to the next level.
Title: Welcome to the world of Cyber Threat Intelligence!
Abstract: Welcome to the world of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)! During this presentation, we will discuss about some of the basic concepts within CTI domain and we will have a look at the current threat landscape as observed from the trenches. The presentation is split into 3 parts: a) Intro to CTI, b) A view at the current threat landscape, and c) CTI analyst skillset.
Short Bio: Andreas Sfakianakis is a Cyber Threat Intelligence and Incident Response professional and works for Standard and Poors' CTI team. He is also a member of ENISA’s CTI Stakeholders’ Group and Incident Response Working Group. He is the author of a number of CTI reports and an instructor of CTI. In the past, Andreas has worked within the Financial and Oil & Gas sectors as well as an external reviewer for European Commission. Andreas' Twitter handle is @asfakian and his website is www.threatintel.eu
Ethical Hacking vs Penetration Testing vs Cybersecurity: Know the Difference?PECB
Ethical hacking helps organizations in preventing the exploitation and vulnerabilities of their system’s data.
Today, several real-world testing methods are used to avoid cyber-attacks and secure important data from exploitation.
The webinar covers
• Ethical Hacking
• Penetration Testing
• Differences and Similarities
• Types & Stages of Penetration Testing
• Cybersecurity
• Impact of COVID-19 on Cybersecurity
Presenters:
Carl Carpenter
Carl is a former CISO of a $6B entity where he was responsible for protecting data of all types and regulatory environments such as FFIEC, HIPAA, and PCI as well as working with the FBI, IRS, and US Department of Labor around investigations relating to money laundering. He has performed assessments against Fortune 10 and 50 companies in the areas of GDPR, CCPA, ISO/IEC 27001 and currently performs CMMC assessments as well as CMMC pre-audit support to help ensure a successful CMMC audit. Prior to that, Carl retired from the US Military where he was involved in counter-terrorist, counter-narcotics, counter-intelligence operations and training foreign military members in these same concepts. Carl is also a PECB trainer in ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27032, and CMMC Foundations and holds numerous other certifications.
In 2016, Carl joined Arrakis Consulting where he started as an auditor and providing CISO-as-a-Service to small or medium sized companies that needed more experience without increased cost. In 2017, Carl added active penetration testing to his portfolio of skills and routinely performs penetration tests against companies of all sizes. Carl also trains people on a variety of skills such as penetration testing, network engineering, network administration, OSI model, subnetting, etc…
Carl holds a Bachelors from Western Governors University in Network Security and Operations as well as numerous certifications from ITIL, Cisco, CompTIA, Microsoft, CMMC-AB, ISACA, OneTrust, RSA, PCI Council, Citrix, and Novell
Andreas Christoforides
Mr. Christoforides is an active IT auditor and a trainer for a various organization on Information Security Management Systems. He is a member of the Cyprus Computer Society, a PECB certified trainer for ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 22301 and GDPR CDPO, and a former Deputy Head of IT Infrastructure at a Bulgarian Leading Bank.
In 2019, he joined BEWISE and delivered to clients a wide range of Cybersecurity projects in the areas of strategy, governance and risk management, data privacy and protection (GDPR), and business resilience and recovery. He conducts IT Risk Assessments and develops IT policies and procedures towards establishing an effective and secure IT Governance framework.
Mr. Christoforides holds a BEng degree from Birmingham City University and a variety of other qualifications from Microsoft and CISCO.
YouTube video: https://youtu.be/cTrdBZFIFhM
Website link: https://pecb.com/
Cyber threat intelligence: maturity and metricsMark Arena
From SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit 2016. What are the characteristics of a mature cyber threat intelligence program, and how do you develop meaningful metrics? Traditionally, intelligence has been about providing decision
support to executives whilst the field of cyber threat intelligence supports this customer, and network defenders, who have different requirements. By using the intelligence cycle, this talk will
seek to help attendees understand how they can identify what a mature intelligence program looks like and the steps to take their program to the next level.
Cyber threat Intelligence and Incident Response by:-Sandeep SinghOWASP Delhi
The broad list of topics include (but not limited to):
- What is Threat Intelligence?
- Type of Threat Intelligence?
- Intelligence Lifecycle
- Threat Intelligence - Classification & Vendor Landscape
- Threat Intelligence Standards (STIX, TAXII, etc.)
- Open Source Threat Intel Tools
- Incident Response
- Role of Threat Intel in Incident Response
- Bonus Agenda
Security (Ignorance) Isn't Bliss: 5 Ways to Advance Security Decisions with T...IBM Security
In the wake of massive numbers of security breaches in 2014, enterprises are struggling to improve how they consume threat intelligence to better protect their networks. Over 65% of companies use external threat intelligence as part of their security analytics, but are dissatisfied with the time and resources needed to understand and analyze the data available. With a barrage of information coming in to your organization on vulnerabilities, malware, and potentially malicious sites on the Internet, how can you truly make sense of the data and take action when it’s required?
During this presentation, you will learn how your enterprise can quickly research threats, integrate actionable intelligence and collaborate with peers using global threat intelligence.
Its is project based on one of the most interesting and wide topic of Computer Science, named Cyber Security
CONTENT :
1. What is Cyber Security
2. Why Cyber Security is Important
3. Brief History
4. Security Timeline
5. Architecture
6. Cyber Attack Methods
7. Technology for Cyber Secuirty
8. Development in Cyber Security
9. Future Trend in Cyber Security
As we get to know what life in the digital domain is like, one of the revelations we've had is that many large and plenty of smaller organisations are targets of espionage, of the nefarious APT.
During the last decade, it has become gospel to wait, watch, analyse and learn if you detect such an attacker in your infrastructure. Why? Because you get one chance to do the eviction of the attacker right. And if you fail, all your efforts will eventually have been for nothing.
But for how long should you wait and watch? When have you watched long enough? When have you learned enough? And how do you make that decision?
That is the challenge I hope the Cyber Threat Intelligence Matrix can help you face in a more structured manner.
Cyber Threat Intelligence - La rilevanza del dato per il businessFrancesco Faenzi
Scenario delle Cyber Threat
Cyber Threat Intelligence
CTI come fase della Cyber Defense
Intelligence & Cleverness
"In real life"
Rilevanza della CTI per il Business
Punti di attenzione per il CISO in un CTI Program
An Assessment of Intrusion Detection System IDS and Data Set Overview A Compr...ijtsrd
Millions of people worldwide have Internet access today. Intrusion detection technology is a modern wave of information technology monitoring devices to deter malicious activities. Malware development malicious software is a vital problem when it comes to designing intrusion detection systems IDS . The key challenge is to recognize unknown and hidden malware, because malware writers use various evasion techniques to mask information to avoid IDS detection. Malicious attacks have become more sophisticated and Furthermore, threats to security have increased, including a zero day attack on internet users. Through the use of IT in our daily lives, computer security has become critical. Cyber threats are becoming more complex and pose growing challenges when it comes to successful intrusion detection. Failure to prevent invading information, such as data privacy, integrity and availability can undermine the credibility of security services. Specific intrusion detection approaches were proposed in the literature to combat computer security threats. This paper consists of a literature survey of the IDS that uses program algorithms to use specific data collection and forensic techniques in real time. Data mining techniques for cyber research are introduced in support of intrusion detection. Mohammed I. Alghamdi "An Assessment of Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and Data-Set Overview: A Comprehensive Review of Recent Works" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-2 , February 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd35730.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/computer-security/35730/an-assessment-of-intrusion-detection-system-ids-and-dataset-overview-a-comprehensive-review-of-recent-works/mohammed-i-alghamdi
Threat intelligence is knowledge that allows you to prevent or mitigate cyberattacks. Rooted in data, threat intelligence gives you context that helps you make informed decisions about your security by answering questions like who is attacking you, what their motivations and capabilities are, and what indicators of compromise in your systems to look for.
reference:https://www.recordedfuture.com/threat-intelligence-definition/
Keeping up with the Revolution in IT SecurityDistil Networks
For many of today’s businesses, web applications are their lifeline. The growing complexity involved in keeping these applications fast, secure, and available can be seen as a byproduct of shifts in how these apps are developed, deployed, and attacked. This discussion will explore how high level trends in today’s web environments and the cyber attack landscape are shaping tomorrow’s application security solutions.
Key Takeaways:
- Trends in contemporary web applications that are forcing security evolution
- How today’s cyber attack landscape impacts cybersecurity
- What modern IT security solutions look like
- Distil Networks Overview
Put Analytics And Automation At The Core Of Security – Joseph Blankenship – S...Core Security
Joseph Blankenship is a leading security industry veteran and currently a senior analyst at Forrester serving security and risk professionals. This session examined how analytics and automation are combining to transform security operations. Specifically, he will address how combating threats and keeping pace with change requires security technologies to work together and security leaders to embrace automation.
Recently, NTT published the Global Threat Intelligence Report 2016 (GTIR). This year’s report focused both on the changes in threat trends and on how security organizations around the world can use the kill chain to help defend the enterprise.
Turning threat intelligence data from multiple sources into actionable, contextual information is a challenge faced by many organizations today. The Global Threat Intelligence Platform provides increased efficiency, reduces risks and focuses on global coverage with accurate and up-to-date threat intelligence.
This presentation was given at Carnegie Mellon University by Kenji Takahashi, VP of Product Management, Security at NTT Innovation Institute.
Webinar Ivanti Neurons For Patch IntelligenceIvanti
In de huidige wereld zien we continue veranderingen. Het aantal cyberthreats neemt toe, de eindgebruikers verwachten meer en zijn maar 1 klik verwijderd van ransomware. Nadat een vendor een patch uitbrengt, wordt in 22 dagen een exploit ontwikkeld en gebruikt in cyberattacs.
Kijk met ons mee in deze webinar hoe u zicht krijgt op de patchstatus van uw omgeving en hoe wij u kunnen helpen met het stellen van prioriteiten, zodat ook u een time-to-patch bereikt van minder dan 22 dagen.
The Next Generation Cognitive Security Operations Center: Network Flow Forens...Konstantinos Demertzis
A Security Operations Center (SOC) can be defined as an organized and highly skilled team that uses advanced computer forensics tools to prevent, detect and respond to cybersecurity incidents of an organization. The fundamental aspects of an effective SOC is related to the ability to examine and analyze the vast number of data flows and to correlate several other types of events from a cybersecurity perception. The supervision and categorization of network flow is an essential process not only for the scheduling, management, and regulation of the network’s services, but also for attacks identification and for the consequent forensics’ investigations. A serious potential disadvantage of the traditional software solutions used today for computer network monitoring, and specifically for the instances of effective categorization of the encrypted or obfuscated network flow, which enforces the rebuilding of messages packets in sophisticated underlying protocols, is the requirements of computational resources. In addition, an additional significant inability of these software packages is they create high false positive rates because they are deprived of accurate predicting mechanisms.
For all the reasons above, in most cases, the traditional software fails completely to recognize unidentified vulnerabilities and zero-day exploitations. This paper proposes a novel intelligence driven Network Flow Forensics Framework (NF3) which uses low utilization of computing power and resources, for the Next Generation Cognitive Computing SOC (NGC2SOC) that rely solely on advanced fully automated intelligence methods. It is an effective and accurate Ensemble Machine Learning forensics tool to Network Traffic Analysis, Demystification of Malware Traffic and Encrypted Traffic Identification.
Peter B. Lange: Collaborative threat intelligence and actionable integration
http://www.infinit.dk/dk/nyheder-og-reportager/cyber-security-4-0-reportage.htm
Cyber threat Intelligence and Incident Response by:-Sandeep SinghOWASP Delhi
The broad list of topics include (but not limited to):
- What is Threat Intelligence?
- Type of Threat Intelligence?
- Intelligence Lifecycle
- Threat Intelligence - Classification & Vendor Landscape
- Threat Intelligence Standards (STIX, TAXII, etc.)
- Open Source Threat Intel Tools
- Incident Response
- Role of Threat Intel in Incident Response
- Bonus Agenda
Security (Ignorance) Isn't Bliss: 5 Ways to Advance Security Decisions with T...IBM Security
In the wake of massive numbers of security breaches in 2014, enterprises are struggling to improve how they consume threat intelligence to better protect their networks. Over 65% of companies use external threat intelligence as part of their security analytics, but are dissatisfied with the time and resources needed to understand and analyze the data available. With a barrage of information coming in to your organization on vulnerabilities, malware, and potentially malicious sites on the Internet, how can you truly make sense of the data and take action when it’s required?
During this presentation, you will learn how your enterprise can quickly research threats, integrate actionable intelligence and collaborate with peers using global threat intelligence.
Its is project based on one of the most interesting and wide topic of Computer Science, named Cyber Security
CONTENT :
1. What is Cyber Security
2. Why Cyber Security is Important
3. Brief History
4. Security Timeline
5. Architecture
6. Cyber Attack Methods
7. Technology for Cyber Secuirty
8. Development in Cyber Security
9. Future Trend in Cyber Security
As we get to know what life in the digital domain is like, one of the revelations we've had is that many large and plenty of smaller organisations are targets of espionage, of the nefarious APT.
During the last decade, it has become gospel to wait, watch, analyse and learn if you detect such an attacker in your infrastructure. Why? Because you get one chance to do the eviction of the attacker right. And if you fail, all your efforts will eventually have been for nothing.
But for how long should you wait and watch? When have you watched long enough? When have you learned enough? And how do you make that decision?
That is the challenge I hope the Cyber Threat Intelligence Matrix can help you face in a more structured manner.
Cyber Threat Intelligence - La rilevanza del dato per il businessFrancesco Faenzi
Scenario delle Cyber Threat
Cyber Threat Intelligence
CTI come fase della Cyber Defense
Intelligence & Cleverness
"In real life"
Rilevanza della CTI per il Business
Punti di attenzione per il CISO in un CTI Program
An Assessment of Intrusion Detection System IDS and Data Set Overview A Compr...ijtsrd
Millions of people worldwide have Internet access today. Intrusion detection technology is a modern wave of information technology monitoring devices to deter malicious activities. Malware development malicious software is a vital problem when it comes to designing intrusion detection systems IDS . The key challenge is to recognize unknown and hidden malware, because malware writers use various evasion techniques to mask information to avoid IDS detection. Malicious attacks have become more sophisticated and Furthermore, threats to security have increased, including a zero day attack on internet users. Through the use of IT in our daily lives, computer security has become critical. Cyber threats are becoming more complex and pose growing challenges when it comes to successful intrusion detection. Failure to prevent invading information, such as data privacy, integrity and availability can undermine the credibility of security services. Specific intrusion detection approaches were proposed in the literature to combat computer security threats. This paper consists of a literature survey of the IDS that uses program algorithms to use specific data collection and forensic techniques in real time. Data mining techniques for cyber research are introduced in support of intrusion detection. Mohammed I. Alghamdi "An Assessment of Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and Data-Set Overview: A Comprehensive Review of Recent Works" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-2 , February 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd35730.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/computer-security/35730/an-assessment-of-intrusion-detection-system-ids-and-dataset-overview-a-comprehensive-review-of-recent-works/mohammed-i-alghamdi
Threat intelligence is knowledge that allows you to prevent or mitigate cyberattacks. Rooted in data, threat intelligence gives you context that helps you make informed decisions about your security by answering questions like who is attacking you, what their motivations and capabilities are, and what indicators of compromise in your systems to look for.
reference:https://www.recordedfuture.com/threat-intelligence-definition/
Keeping up with the Revolution in IT SecurityDistil Networks
For many of today’s businesses, web applications are their lifeline. The growing complexity involved in keeping these applications fast, secure, and available can be seen as a byproduct of shifts in how these apps are developed, deployed, and attacked. This discussion will explore how high level trends in today’s web environments and the cyber attack landscape are shaping tomorrow’s application security solutions.
Key Takeaways:
- Trends in contemporary web applications that are forcing security evolution
- How today’s cyber attack landscape impacts cybersecurity
- What modern IT security solutions look like
- Distil Networks Overview
Put Analytics And Automation At The Core Of Security – Joseph Blankenship – S...Core Security
Joseph Blankenship is a leading security industry veteran and currently a senior analyst at Forrester serving security and risk professionals. This session examined how analytics and automation are combining to transform security operations. Specifically, he will address how combating threats and keeping pace with change requires security technologies to work together and security leaders to embrace automation.
Recently, NTT published the Global Threat Intelligence Report 2016 (GTIR). This year’s report focused both on the changes in threat trends and on how security organizations around the world can use the kill chain to help defend the enterprise.
Turning threat intelligence data from multiple sources into actionable, contextual information is a challenge faced by many organizations today. The Global Threat Intelligence Platform provides increased efficiency, reduces risks and focuses on global coverage with accurate and up-to-date threat intelligence.
This presentation was given at Carnegie Mellon University by Kenji Takahashi, VP of Product Management, Security at NTT Innovation Institute.
Webinar Ivanti Neurons For Patch IntelligenceIvanti
In de huidige wereld zien we continue veranderingen. Het aantal cyberthreats neemt toe, de eindgebruikers verwachten meer en zijn maar 1 klik verwijderd van ransomware. Nadat een vendor een patch uitbrengt, wordt in 22 dagen een exploit ontwikkeld en gebruikt in cyberattacs.
Kijk met ons mee in deze webinar hoe u zicht krijgt op de patchstatus van uw omgeving en hoe wij u kunnen helpen met het stellen van prioriteiten, zodat ook u een time-to-patch bereikt van minder dan 22 dagen.
The Next Generation Cognitive Security Operations Center: Network Flow Forens...Konstantinos Demertzis
A Security Operations Center (SOC) can be defined as an organized and highly skilled team that uses advanced computer forensics tools to prevent, detect and respond to cybersecurity incidents of an organization. The fundamental aspects of an effective SOC is related to the ability to examine and analyze the vast number of data flows and to correlate several other types of events from a cybersecurity perception. The supervision and categorization of network flow is an essential process not only for the scheduling, management, and regulation of the network’s services, but also for attacks identification and for the consequent forensics’ investigations. A serious potential disadvantage of the traditional software solutions used today for computer network monitoring, and specifically for the instances of effective categorization of the encrypted or obfuscated network flow, which enforces the rebuilding of messages packets in sophisticated underlying protocols, is the requirements of computational resources. In addition, an additional significant inability of these software packages is they create high false positive rates because they are deprived of accurate predicting mechanisms.
For all the reasons above, in most cases, the traditional software fails completely to recognize unidentified vulnerabilities and zero-day exploitations. This paper proposes a novel intelligence driven Network Flow Forensics Framework (NF3) which uses low utilization of computing power and resources, for the Next Generation Cognitive Computing SOC (NGC2SOC) that rely solely on advanced fully automated intelligence methods. It is an effective and accurate Ensemble Machine Learning forensics tool to Network Traffic Analysis, Demystification of Malware Traffic and Encrypted Traffic Identification.
Peter B. Lange: Collaborative threat intelligence and actionable integration
http://www.infinit.dk/dk/nyheder-og-reportager/cyber-security-4-0-reportage.htm
Michael Appelby: Why the protection of information is critical for our society
http://www.infinit.dk/dk/nyheder-og-reportager/cyber-security-4-0-reportage.htm
Integrating info ops in operational level planning (no backup slides)Ulrich Janßen
Presentation on Ensuring message Consistency (NATO StratCom and Military Info Ops in Comprehensive Operations Planning) provided at Information Operations Europe in June 2011
Cyber security refers to the ability to defend against cyber-attacks, protect resources, and prevent cyber-attacks while information assurance is to ensure the confidentiality, possession or control, integrity, authenticity, availability and utility of information and information systems.
Inside TorrentLocker (Cryptolocker) Malware C&C Server Davide Cioccia
CryptoLocker was a ransomware trojan which targeted computers running Microsoft Windows and was first observed by Dell SecureWorks in September 2013. CryptoLocker propagated via infected email attachments, and via an existing botnet; when activated, the malware encrypts certain types of files stored on local and mounted network drives using RSA public-key cryptography, with the private key stored only on the malware's control servers. The malware then displays a message, which offers to decrypt the data if a payment (through either Bitcoin or a pre-paid cash voucher) is made by a stated deadline, and threatened to delete the private key if the deadline passes. If the deadline is not met, the malware offered to decrypt data via an online service provided by the malware's operators, for a significantly higher price in Bitcoin
Explore the new 2014 TorrentLocker and get inside his C&C server
Unlimited Attempts AllowedDetails
Virtual Labs: Sniffing & Social Engineering
Consider what you have learned so far about Sniffing and Social Engineering as you review the objectives and scenario below. Complete the lab that follows on EC-Council's website using the link below.
Objective
Social engineering is the art of convincing people to reveal confidential information. Social engineers depend on the fact that people know certain valuable information yet are generally careless in protecting it.
The objective of this lab is to:
Detect phishing sites
Protect the network from phishing attacks
Perform Credential Harvesting
Perform security assessment on a machine using a payload generated by SET
Scenario
Social engineering is the art of convincing people to reveal sensitive information in order to perform some malicious action. Organizations fall victim to social engineering tricks despite having security policies and best security solutions in place, as social engineering targets people’s weaknesses or good nature. Reconnaissance and social engineering is generally an essential component of any information security attack.
Cybercriminals are increasingly utilizing social engineering techniques to exploit the most vulnerable link in information system security: employees. Social engineering can take many forms, including phishing emails, fake sites, and impersonation.
McAfee's new “Hacking the Human Operating System” whitepaper focuses on the use of social engineering to attack home and business users and finds once again that people are the weakest link. The McAfee report points out that there are many organizations who develop and deliver user awareness programs into their business areas, but the effectiveness of such programs varies, and in some identified cases, even after the security training has been delivered, it has done very little to educate their end-users with any valued security awareness to mitigate the threat of the social engineering attack.
It is essential for you as an expert Ethical Hacker and Penetration Tester, to assess the preparedness of your organization or the target of evaluation against the social engineering attacks.
Though social engineering primarily requires soft skills, the labs in this module demonstrate some techniques that facilitate or automate certain facets of social engineering attacks.
Week 7 Lab Assignment 1: Protect the Network
Lab Task:
The objective of this lab is to help students learn how to:
Clone a website
Obtain username and passwords using Credential Harvester method
Generate reports for a conducted penetration test
Lab Description:
Social Engineering is an ever-growing threat to organizations all over the world. Social Engineering attacks are used to compromise companies every day. Even though there are many hacking tools available throughout underground hacking communities, Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) is a boon to attackers, as it is freely available and ...
Emphasizing Value of Prioritizing AppSec Meetup 11052023.pptxlior mazor
Our technology, work processes, and activities all depend on if we trust our software to be safe and secure. Join us virtually for our upcoming "Emphasizing Value of Prioritizing AppSec" Meetup to learn how to build a cost effective application security program, implement secure coding analysis and how to manage software security risks.
Research Article On Web Application SecuritySaadSaif6
This Is The Totally Hand Written Research Article On
Web Application Security
(Improving Critical Web-based Applications Quality Through In depth Security Analysis)
This Research Article Was Made By Me After The Hard Working Of One Month. Its Best And Suitable For Your Research Paper And Also Used In Class For Present It And For Submission.
A Review On Adapting Social Engineering Services—Aardwolf SecurityAardwolf Security
To counter the threat of social engineering, Sprint Infinity offers a culture of security awareness. We implement multi-layered security measures for effective social engineering services and continuously adopt the best strategies.
https://aardwolfsecurity.com/security-testing/social-engineering-services/
A Survey of Keylogger in Cybersecurity Educationijtsrd
Keylogger applications try to retrieve exclusive statistics through covertly shooting consumer enter through keystroke tracking after which relaying these statistics to others, frequently for malicious purposes. Keyloggers hence pose a chief danger to commercial enterprise and private sports consisting of Internet transactions, online banking, email, or chat. To cope with such threats, now no longer most effective ought to customers be made aware of this form of malware, however software program practitioners and college students ought to additionally be knowledgeable withinside the layout, implementation, and tracking of powerful defenses towards distinctive keylogger attacks. This paper affords a case for incorporating keylogging in cybersecurity schooling. First, the paper affords a top level view of keylogger applications, discusses keylogger layout, implementation, and utilization, and affords powerful tactics to hit upon and save you keylogging attacks. Second, the paper outlines numerous keylogging tasks that may be integrated into an undergraduate computing software to train the subsequent technology of cybersecurity practitioners on this crucial topic. Raja Saha | Dr. Umarani Chellapandy "A Survey of Keylogger in Cybersecurity Education" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-3 , April 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd49471.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/computer-security/49471/a-survey-of-keylogger-in-cybersecurity-education/raja-saha
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
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PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
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• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
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• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
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- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
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We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
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This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
2. O u r W o r k
Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology
S O C I A L
E N G I N E E R I N G
C Y B E R
I N V E S T I G A T I O N
I T F O R E N S I C S
P HY S I C A L &
E L E C T R O N I C
S E C U R I T Y
3. Future of Social Engineering
Current trends and future expectations on the
phenomenon of Social Engineering.
Dogana
3-year EU project with the aim of developing
next generation Social Engineering attacks and
mitigation methods.
Project SAVE
National R&D project for The Royal Danish
Defence College (FAK) on Social Engineering
2.0.
Overview
Presentation
01 02 03
4. I n t r o d u c t i o n t o
S o c i a l E n g i n e e r i n g
5. Social Engineering
”Social Engineering is the art of getting
someone to do something, they would not
otherwise do – using psychological
manipulation ,,
DEFINITION
6. Social Engineering Attack Cycle
SE Attack Cycle
SE
Cycle
Execute attack by requiring the target
to conduct an action, the target would
not otherwise do.
3. Attack
Employing an exit strategy is typically
only required if the target is to be left
unsuspecious or if the attackers expect
additional contact with the target in
the future.
4. Exit
Conduct the necessary research to
understand the target at hand.
1. Reconnaissance
Initiate contact with the target based
on the insights gained from the
reconnaissance phase.
2. Contact
7. Social Engineering 2.0
Social Engineering has evolved from the physical domain as
a platform for elication of information to employing
cyberspace as the new battleground. With new means of
communications between individuals comes new attack
vectors for the social engineer, including: phishing emails,
smishing, CEO Fraud, Ransomware, etc.
NEW METHODS
8. P r o j e c t S A V E :
Social Vulnerability &
Assessment Framework
R&D for The Royal Danish Defence College
9. P r o j e c t S A V E
National Project
National project developed for the Royal Danish
Defence College with the purpose of uncovering the
threat of Social Engineering against critical national
infrastructure (CNI) in Denmark.
• Development of advanced OSINT methods,
deception planning and SE 2.0 attacks.
• Execution of simulated attacks against three
companies that are directly part of, or supports,
critical national infrastructre.
• The purpose is to uncover how vulnerable CNI is
to Social Engineering 2.0 attacks and disseminate
the results of the study.
10. SAVE: Reconnaissance
• Crawling of email addresses
• Social media personality profiling (sentiment analysis)
• Social Network Analysis (SNA)
• Systemic network footprinting (Maltego, metadata)
• Darknet investigation for leaked/sold information
11. Reconnaissance
Project SAVE
• Crawled from the companies’ own websites
• Crawled from open sources
• Indexed results from Google
• Indexed documents
Email crawling:
12. Reconnaissance
Project SAVE
• Crawled content targets’ facebook profiles
• Coded a script
• Emulated human browsing with Selenium to avoid crawling
countermeasures
• Conducted sentiment analyses of the content using a
‘bag of words’ approach
• Based on the sentiment analyses we categorized the
users’ in the ‘Big Five’ personality framework
Sentiment Analysis & Personality Profiling:
14. Reconnaissance
Project SAVE
• Systematic analysis of information sold on
Darknet
• Correlated sold information on +45 darknet
markets for the involved companies in the
study
• We could not request information
Darknet Investigation Methods:
15. Reconnaissance Results
Project SAVE
• ID layout for business deals
• ID of stakeholders and voting rights within the organisation
• ID of critical database system and how to access it
• ID of complete guide to the database
• ID of users with access to the database
• Full list of emails and phone numbers
Critical Results from the Recon Phase:
16. Reconnaissance Results
Project SAVE
• ID of useful information from metadata, incl. long list of
software in use
• Design of Guest ID Card
• Social network analysis revealed critical nodes within the
company network, which were highly interconnected, making
them ideal targets for a SE attack
Critical Results from the Recon Phase:
18. Executed Attacks
Project SAVE
Three companies that are either directly, or
support, critical infrastructure in Denmark
participated.
Objective is to target CNI
Complete cyber reconnaissance of the
companies and select employees.
Conduct Cyber Reconnaissance
A total of 185 SE 2.0 attacks were executed as
part of the field trial testing.
185 social engineering 2.0 attacks
Vector
Target #1
Target #2
Target #3
Spear-
Phishing
3
1
3
Whaling
1
1
3
Conventional
Phishing
2
4
146
Smishing
3
5
9
USB Attack
0
0
3
PDF attack
(follow-up)
1
2 (3)
0
19. Aggregated Results
Project SAVE
47 pct. of all executed SE 2.0 attacks were successful
in convincing the targets to click on phishing links or
execute a file. Criteria for success was dependent on
the registration of the attempt on our web server log.
Successful Attacks
A little more than half of all executed attacks were
unsuccessful in the study. From qualitative interviews
with some of the targets, we can conclude that minor
details in the wording, the sender spoofed, and/or lack
of information (e.g. a phone number in the email) were
the reasons behind their lack of trust in the email.
Failed Attempts
47%
53%
47%
53%
Success Rate of
SE 2.0 Attacks
20. D o g a n a :
Advanced Social Engineering and
Vulnerability Assessment Framework
R&D For The EU Commission
21. The Dogana Consortium
The Dogana Project
18 partners from 11 countries in a 3-year Horizon 2020
project about advanced Social Engineering 2.0.
Partners
http://www.dogana-project.eu
22. The Dogana Project
Developing a next generation platform for social
vulnerability assessment via simulated attacks.
Next Generation SE Attacks
Using innovative awareness methods to mitigate the
risk of social engineering.
Innovative Awareness Methods
Full scale field trial testing of the platform, testing
+1,000 of employees to evaluate the recon, attack and
awareness phases.
Full Scale Field Trials
http://www.dogana-project.eu
Overview of Dogana
23. Dogana Platform
The Dogana Project
End2End platform, which embodies both advanced
reconnaissance methods for uncovering the digital
shadow of targets as well as psychological profiling.
End-to-End SE Platform
The advanced recon methods are integrated into a
one-stop platform where full assessment of targets can
be conducted.
Adv. Recon and Assessment of Targets
The platform integrates social engineering 2.0 attack
vectors, thus becoming a holistic attack solution for
conducting socially driven vulnerability assessments of
companies.
Integrated SE 2.0 attacks
http://www.dogana-project.eu
24. Innovative Awareness Methods
The Dogana Project
Gamification is the concept of using serious games as
a delivery method for improving the security
consciousness of the recipients.
Gamification
Serious games are interactive and can be either single-
or multi-player. Serious games can prove to be more
effective than conventional learning methods.
Interactive learning
2 min. of playing a game every day for six months
contra spending 6 hours at a frontal lecture once every
sixth month. Which has the greatest impact in
maintaining security consciousness for the recipient
over time?
Less is more
http://www.dogana-project.eu
25. F u t u r e o f
S o c i a l E n g i n e e r i n g
26. Introducing SNAP_R
Future of SE
SNAP_R auto-analyses and selects targets, and
generates proper and relevant responses to tweets,
which inclulde a phishing link.
Aut. E2E Spear Phishing on Twitter
It utilizes deep learning for analysing data from users
and data about users, in order to select the most
susceptible targets to spear phishing attacks.
Neural Network / Deep Learning
Given that grammatical errors are widely accepted on
twitter, that the tweet is limited to 140-characters and
that URLs are almost always shortened, the SNAP_R
gets away with most of the obstacles of machine
learning for automated spear phishing attacks.
Deception through Obfuscation
27. Introducing SNAP_R
Future of SE
SNAP_R is up to five times as effective compared to other
automated spear phishing bots, which typically has a success
rate ranging from 5% to 14%. However, SNAP_R reports
success rates ranging from 30% and 66%. Manually
constructed spear phishing attacks has an average success rate
of 45%.
5x More Effective
SNAP_R is open source and available for everyone to
test. The script can be found on Github:
https://github.com/getzerofox/SNAP_R
Open Source
Example
28. IoT Ransomware
Future of SE
IoT ransomware is no longer hypothetical. We foresee a
development in ransomware attacks moving to IoT as soon as
more standards are implemented in the making of IoT devices.
Internet of Things Ransomware
When all of your devices become connected to the Internet,
ransomware attacks will be able to move from focusing on
locking access to data to locking access to your actual devices.
From Digital to Physical Lockdown
• Your Smart Car
• Your Smart Home
• Pacemakers
• Hospital Equipment
• Real Examples: Smart Thermostat & Smart TV
Examples
29. T h a n k y o u
Dennis Hansen
Email: deh@dbi-net.dk
Tel.: +45 31 53 43 44