Dealing with security threats, the director discusses:
1) The current threat landscape including threats to governments, consumers, and examples of security breaches.
2) The anatomy of a security breach including disruption of operations and different types of insiders like well-meaning or malicious.
3) The need for operationalizing security through establishing in-depth defense at the network periphery and endpoints to effectively defend interconnected systems and information sharing.
The document is a quarterly report on construction markets in the Gulf States region, featuring sections on Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar. It provides an overview of key economic indicators and trends in each country, noting that while some countries face political and economic challenges from unrest, the overall outlook across the region remains positive due to strong oil prices supporting government spending on infrastructure projects. Public works spending is expected to drive continued economic growth in the coming years.
The annual review summarizes Logicalis' financial and operational highlights for 2010. Key points include:
- Sales increased 8% to $841.5 million and EBITDA rose 17% to $42 million.
- The company expanded its global presence through acquisitions and now has nearly 2,000 employees across four regions.
- Logicalis provides integrated solutions and services across communications, data centers, and professional/managed services working with vendors like Cisco, HP, IBM, and Microsoft.
Identifying Entity Aspects in Microblog PostsDamiano Spina
Online reputation management is about monitoring and handling
the public image of entities (such as companies) on the Web. An
important task in this area is identifying aspects of the entity of
interest (such as products, services, competitors, key people, etc.)
given a stream of microblog posts referring to the entity. In this pa-
per we compare different IR techniques and opinion target identi-
fication methods for automatically identifying aspects and find that
(i) simple statistical methods such as TF.IDF are a strong baseline
for the task, significantly outperforming opinion-oriented methods,
and (ii) only considering terms tagged as nouns improves the re-
sults for all the methods analyzed.
Breakfast Briefing – Information ArchitectureUser Vision
This document discusses information architecture and provides an overview of related concepts and methods. It defines information architecture as "the art and science of organizing and labelling information spaces." The core tools and techniques discussed include card sorting, category testing, and heuristic evaluations. Applying these approaches may involve an iterative user research and design process. Finally, some related concepts are mentioned, such as content inventory, controlled vocabularies, and faceted navigation.
The document discusses analyzing factors for sectoral growth using data from the National Sample Survey 64th round. It outlines the data model used to combine text files and states into different levels for analysis. Some key metrics analyzed include literacy rates, medical and consumption expenditures, sex ratios, food vs non-food spending, and PDS penetration across states. States are also analyzed based on per capita expenditure on consumer durables and the correlation between monthly per capita expenditure and income.
John Deere Forestry bioenergy by Sylvain Martin english version oct 07Sylvain Martin
This document summarizes a presentation about forest residue bundling technology. It discusses how bundling was developed in Sweden in the late 1990s and has since spread across Europe. Over 65 bundling machines have been delivered, producing over 3.6 million bundles annually. A case study from France shows how bundling productivity improved from 100-130 to 180-210 bundles per day as operators gained experience and optimized pile preparation and machine settings. Lessons learned are that flexibility and a holistic procurement approach are needed to integrate bundling due to the diversity of forest conditions across Europe.
The document provides a summary of Mark Anthony Siason's creative portfolio. It includes 3 sentences:
Mark Anthony Siason has created various technical writings, graphic designs, web designs, logos, and databases in his work as a university instructor and operations coordinator. His portfolio presents some of this work, including company profiles, websites, iBooks, posters, research abstracts, and database applications he created to aid in his operations work. Siason believes that work does not just have to be useful but can be beautiful, and is always fascinated by art.
Cybercrime, cyber war, infowar - what's this all about from an hacker's persp...ClubHack
The document is a presentation on cybercrime, cyberwar, and information warfare. It was presented by Raoul Chiesa and Jart Armin at Club Hack 2010 in Pune, India. The presentation covers the evolution of cyberattacks from cybercrime to cyberwarfare. It discusses concepts like hacktivism, nation-state attacks like those experienced by Estonia and Georgia, and the blurring lines between hackers, cybercriminals, and intelligence agencies. The presenters aim to introduce new concepts and frameworks for understanding next-generation cyber threats and information warfare in the digital era.
The document is a quarterly report on construction markets in the Gulf States region, featuring sections on Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar. It provides an overview of key economic indicators and trends in each country, noting that while some countries face political and economic challenges from unrest, the overall outlook across the region remains positive due to strong oil prices supporting government spending on infrastructure projects. Public works spending is expected to drive continued economic growth in the coming years.
The annual review summarizes Logicalis' financial and operational highlights for 2010. Key points include:
- Sales increased 8% to $841.5 million and EBITDA rose 17% to $42 million.
- The company expanded its global presence through acquisitions and now has nearly 2,000 employees across four regions.
- Logicalis provides integrated solutions and services across communications, data centers, and professional/managed services working with vendors like Cisco, HP, IBM, and Microsoft.
Identifying Entity Aspects in Microblog PostsDamiano Spina
Online reputation management is about monitoring and handling
the public image of entities (such as companies) on the Web. An
important task in this area is identifying aspects of the entity of
interest (such as products, services, competitors, key people, etc.)
given a stream of microblog posts referring to the entity. In this pa-
per we compare different IR techniques and opinion target identi-
fication methods for automatically identifying aspects and find that
(i) simple statistical methods such as TF.IDF are a strong baseline
for the task, significantly outperforming opinion-oriented methods,
and (ii) only considering terms tagged as nouns improves the re-
sults for all the methods analyzed.
Breakfast Briefing – Information ArchitectureUser Vision
This document discusses information architecture and provides an overview of related concepts and methods. It defines information architecture as "the art and science of organizing and labelling information spaces." The core tools and techniques discussed include card sorting, category testing, and heuristic evaluations. Applying these approaches may involve an iterative user research and design process. Finally, some related concepts are mentioned, such as content inventory, controlled vocabularies, and faceted navigation.
The document discusses analyzing factors for sectoral growth using data from the National Sample Survey 64th round. It outlines the data model used to combine text files and states into different levels for analysis. Some key metrics analyzed include literacy rates, medical and consumption expenditures, sex ratios, food vs non-food spending, and PDS penetration across states. States are also analyzed based on per capita expenditure on consumer durables and the correlation between monthly per capita expenditure and income.
John Deere Forestry bioenergy by Sylvain Martin english version oct 07Sylvain Martin
This document summarizes a presentation about forest residue bundling technology. It discusses how bundling was developed in Sweden in the late 1990s and has since spread across Europe. Over 65 bundling machines have been delivered, producing over 3.6 million bundles annually. A case study from France shows how bundling productivity improved from 100-130 to 180-210 bundles per day as operators gained experience and optimized pile preparation and machine settings. Lessons learned are that flexibility and a holistic procurement approach are needed to integrate bundling due to the diversity of forest conditions across Europe.
The document provides a summary of Mark Anthony Siason's creative portfolio. It includes 3 sentences:
Mark Anthony Siason has created various technical writings, graphic designs, web designs, logos, and databases in his work as a university instructor and operations coordinator. His portfolio presents some of this work, including company profiles, websites, iBooks, posters, research abstracts, and database applications he created to aid in his operations work. Siason believes that work does not just have to be useful but can be beautiful, and is always fascinated by art.
Cybercrime, cyber war, infowar - what's this all about from an hacker's persp...ClubHack
The document is a presentation on cybercrime, cyberwar, and information warfare. It was presented by Raoul Chiesa and Jart Armin at Club Hack 2010 in Pune, India. The presentation covers the evolution of cyberattacks from cybercrime to cyberwarfare. It discusses concepts like hacktivism, nation-state attacks like those experienced by Estonia and Georgia, and the blurring lines between hackers, cybercriminals, and intelligence agencies. The presenters aim to introduce new concepts and frameworks for understanding next-generation cyber threats and information warfare in the digital era.
Standard & Poor's is a leading provider of financial market intelligence and credit ratings. It has 11,000 employees operating across North America, Europe, Asia, India, Australia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. The company generates $2.6 billion in annual revenue through credit ratings, risk management services, equity research, indices, and business intelligence platforms. It aims to connect its application integration hubs in major financial centers worldwide through an agile approach that emphasizes continuous improvement.
The annual review summarizes Logicalis' financial highlights and growing global presence in 2010. Sales were $841 million with EBITDA of $42 million. Net cash was up 87% to $76.4 million and annuity revenues grew 17% to $117.5 million. Logicalis expanded its global footprint through offices across Europe, North America, South America, Asia Pacific, and strategic acquisitions. It provides integrated solutions and services working with leading partners like Cisco, HP, IBM, and Microsoft.
Semiconductor Hubs for Research & InnovationZinnov
The semiconductor industry has evolved significantly in the last 50 years. While in early 60s, US was the clear market leader, by the 90s the semiconductor industry in Taiwan, Singapore and Korea posed a competitive threat to that in the US. Recent times have witnessed other locations in China and India establish themselves firmly on the global semiconductor landscape.
For any innovation hub, the entire ecosystem has to be favorable for growth. This includes access to large skilled talent pool, strong university ecosystem, favorable government policies etc.
Future of cities and universities 20120619 v2ISSIP
The document discusses IBM's University Programs worldwide initiative called IBM UPward, which aims to accelerate regional development through partnerships between IBM, universities, and cities. It provides an overview of IBM's work on smarter cities projects, how analytics and cloud computing are enabling new insights, and how service science frameworks can help measure societal outcomes like quality of life, innovativeness, and sustainability.
This presentation provides an overview of a company called SMT that provides geoscience software and services. SMT has a global market share leadership position in seismic and geological interpretation software. The presentation discusses SMT's corporate acquisition by IHS, their product portfolio including KINGDOM software, customer base of over 3000 organizations in 100+ countries, and future roadmap including improved multi-user workflows and microseismic data analysis capabilities.
This document discusses EMC and its business focus on enabling customer's business agility through cloud services. It highlights EMC's global presence with over 53,500 employees in 85 countries. It then discusses EMC's partnership with Exponential-e to provide cooperative cloud services including infrastructure assessments, migration services, and ongoing performance management for customers' virtual and physical environments. The document emphasizes that the right IT services can create efficiency while allowing customers to retain control, trust and security over their environments and data.
The document outlines 7 steps to build an Oracle big data strategy:
1. Develop a business strategy map to align IT initiatives with business goals
2. Align information technology strategies and resources to business needs
3. Identify necessary resources like data skills and analytics tools
4. Build an Oracle big data technology stack including the Oracle Big Data Appliance and Exadata
5. Develop an initial small-scale solution to evaluate the strategy
6. Evaluate results and make corrections to the strategy
7. Update the big data strategy based on lessons learned
Adeo Ressi - Founder Institute - Stanford Engineering - Mar 12 2012Burton Lee
Build Your Dream Company is a program that helps graduates build meaningful technology companies through a global network of over 500 graduates and 700 mentors across 25+ cities. The goal is to build successful, enduring companies by providing resources, connections, and support. Locations include major cities in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and more are in development. Past results show that 91% of graduates have made progress with their companies, with 46% achieving moderate progress and 14% achieving fast progress after joining the program.
How to Re-architect Teamcenter FootprintMatt Tremmel
The document discusses recommendations for re-architecting a company's Teamcenter footprint. It recommends developing a global operating model, governance structure, and standardizing the Teamcenter environment. A case study shows a company had 30 instances across 47 sites with various versions and configurations. The recommendations include creating regional hubs, limiting new sites, and upgrading networks and hardware to support a consolidated footprint.
This document provides an overview of a breakfast briefing on wireless broadband and maximizing current investments through new services. The briefing covered several topics:
1) Mobile WiMAX certification is being updated, with the first Wave 2 products certified at 2.5GHz. Over 100 Mobile WiMAX products are expected to be certified by the end of 2008.
2) Challenges for Mobile WiMAX adoption include MIMO antenna size/weight, intellectual property issues, delays in spectrum auctions, and short battery life of client devices.
3) Next steps discussed generating unique applications to drive adoption, using Mobile WiMAX for both fixed and mobile services, and improving the user experience to differentiate it from other wireless alternatives.
Using Process Manager in HyperWorks to Streamline and Standardize FEA Model G...Altair
Currently our design engineering team uses a fairly extensive and well established set of Ansys analysis routines. While these analysis methods are fairly well standardized, the actual model generation has not been standardized to date. Depending on the individual designers skills and preferences, there are a variety of methods being employed for getting the geometry into Ansys for analysis. The model generation may also be affected by which analysis the engineer intends to run. Through the use of process manager we are working to introduce a more standardized as well as streamlined approach to model generation. This will allow us to cut model generation and iteration time for experienced users as well as automatically building in features so that each initial model contains everything needed to be used with our standard analysis routines. It will also have an added benefit of cutting training time for newer users, as well as broadening the amount of users that can create a useful FEA model for design engineering.
This webinar provides a step-by-step approach to getting started with a Big Data solution and what to expect in the first 90 days including:10 Steps to Starting your Big Data Project, 5 critical mistakes and 2 success stories.
NTT Communications operates a global tier 1 IP network designed to provide fast and reliable internet access and data transport services. They offer dedicated internet access, Ethernet services, IP multicast, IPv6 connectivity, managed router services, and security services such as DDoS attack countermeasures, intrusion detection and prevention. NTT Communications guarantees high network availability, low latency and packet loss through strict service level agreements.
TYNAX operates a global online platform that connects buyers and sellers of patents and technologies. It helps buyers find IP assets to purchase or license, and helps sellers find licensing or acquisition prospects. The platform allows participants around the world to connect and transact business, overcoming previous geographical and industry barriers. TYNAX reaches customers through listings on its exchange, partner websites, newsfeeds, and alerts to those tracking relevant topics. It facilitates the patent sale and technology transfer process through managing communications between buyers and sellers.
2009 P2 P Conference Keynote Krish, Ramesh Presentation - Using Six Sigma to ...Ramesh_Krish123
Ramesh Krish gave a keynote presentation at the Procure to Pay Summit on enhancing procure-to-pay redesign with process excellence. He discussed applying process improvement tools like DMAIC, process mapping, and measurement techniques to procure-to-pay processes. He provided examples of how to define opportunities, measure performance, analyze data to identify root causes, improve processes, and implement controls to ensure performance.
This document discusses the need for Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) in Africa given increasing internet connectivity and cyber threats on the continent. It outlines the changing digital landscape in Africa, including growing broadband infrastructure and more users. This expands the attack surface for malicious actors. The document then describes the objectives of a CERT in enhancing security awareness, building national expertise, assisting with cyber law, and establishing a central point of contact for incident reporting.
This document discusses cyber security strategies and approaches used by various governments and organizations. It outlines national strategies from the UK, US, Estonia, and Singapore, as well as approaches at the European Union level. Common themes across strategies include recognizing the interconnected nature of IT systems, moving from attack detection to prevention, and the need for joint public-private collaboration to develop regulations, share intelligence, and protect critical infrastructure and society.
This document outlines several DNS attack scenarios that will be demonstrated for educational purposes. The scenarios include cache poisoning targeting a nameserver, nameserver redelegation exploiting a vulnerability in a registry system, and malicious use targeting individual systems. Rules of engagement are provided to assure participants that while the demonstrations show potential attacks, no actual malicious activity will occur. Attendees are invited to observe the effects through DNS queries, simulated phishing emails, and traffic analysis on provided virtual machines.
- The document describes how DNS can be used maliciously for botnet command and control or amplification attacks, using a demonstration of a DNS bot.
- It provides the case study of the Conficker worm which used randomly generated domain names for instructions. A working group registered domains to prevent its activity until it switched to P2P.
- The demonstration shows a rogue DNS server instructing the bot to execute commands and post results via DNS queries, which can be seen in Wireshark.
- Mitigation strategies include domain blackholes, strengthening registration validation, detection mechanisms, and takedown policies developed with other organizations.
- The document discusses nameserver redirection attacks and SQL injection attacks against domain name registry systems.
- It provides examples of how attackers can change domain name registrations through SQL injection or by directly modifying registry databases to redirect traffic to malicious sites.
- A live demonstration shows how SQL injection can be used to enumerate and modify a registry database, redirecting a domain to a rogue IP address and server.
- Mitigation strategies include securing web applications, validating input, using authentication for changes, and information sharing about attacks.
- The document describes a demonstration of a DNS cache poisoning attack. It provides instructions for setting up the attack using tools on a Ubuntu VM. The attack spoofs DNS responses to redirect traffic from a domain to a malicious IP address controlled by the attacker. This could enable realistic phishing attacks. Mitigation strategies include DNSSEC, SSL, and monitoring recursive DNS servers, but user awareness remains important.
Standard & Poor's is a leading provider of financial market intelligence and credit ratings. It has 11,000 employees operating across North America, Europe, Asia, India, Australia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. The company generates $2.6 billion in annual revenue through credit ratings, risk management services, equity research, indices, and business intelligence platforms. It aims to connect its application integration hubs in major financial centers worldwide through an agile approach that emphasizes continuous improvement.
The annual review summarizes Logicalis' financial highlights and growing global presence in 2010. Sales were $841 million with EBITDA of $42 million. Net cash was up 87% to $76.4 million and annuity revenues grew 17% to $117.5 million. Logicalis expanded its global footprint through offices across Europe, North America, South America, Asia Pacific, and strategic acquisitions. It provides integrated solutions and services working with leading partners like Cisco, HP, IBM, and Microsoft.
Semiconductor Hubs for Research & InnovationZinnov
The semiconductor industry has evolved significantly in the last 50 years. While in early 60s, US was the clear market leader, by the 90s the semiconductor industry in Taiwan, Singapore and Korea posed a competitive threat to that in the US. Recent times have witnessed other locations in China and India establish themselves firmly on the global semiconductor landscape.
For any innovation hub, the entire ecosystem has to be favorable for growth. This includes access to large skilled talent pool, strong university ecosystem, favorable government policies etc.
Future of cities and universities 20120619 v2ISSIP
The document discusses IBM's University Programs worldwide initiative called IBM UPward, which aims to accelerate regional development through partnerships between IBM, universities, and cities. It provides an overview of IBM's work on smarter cities projects, how analytics and cloud computing are enabling new insights, and how service science frameworks can help measure societal outcomes like quality of life, innovativeness, and sustainability.
This presentation provides an overview of a company called SMT that provides geoscience software and services. SMT has a global market share leadership position in seismic and geological interpretation software. The presentation discusses SMT's corporate acquisition by IHS, their product portfolio including KINGDOM software, customer base of over 3000 organizations in 100+ countries, and future roadmap including improved multi-user workflows and microseismic data analysis capabilities.
This document discusses EMC and its business focus on enabling customer's business agility through cloud services. It highlights EMC's global presence with over 53,500 employees in 85 countries. It then discusses EMC's partnership with Exponential-e to provide cooperative cloud services including infrastructure assessments, migration services, and ongoing performance management for customers' virtual and physical environments. The document emphasizes that the right IT services can create efficiency while allowing customers to retain control, trust and security over their environments and data.
The document outlines 7 steps to build an Oracle big data strategy:
1. Develop a business strategy map to align IT initiatives with business goals
2. Align information technology strategies and resources to business needs
3. Identify necessary resources like data skills and analytics tools
4. Build an Oracle big data technology stack including the Oracle Big Data Appliance and Exadata
5. Develop an initial small-scale solution to evaluate the strategy
6. Evaluate results and make corrections to the strategy
7. Update the big data strategy based on lessons learned
Adeo Ressi - Founder Institute - Stanford Engineering - Mar 12 2012Burton Lee
Build Your Dream Company is a program that helps graduates build meaningful technology companies through a global network of over 500 graduates and 700 mentors across 25+ cities. The goal is to build successful, enduring companies by providing resources, connections, and support. Locations include major cities in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and more are in development. Past results show that 91% of graduates have made progress with their companies, with 46% achieving moderate progress and 14% achieving fast progress after joining the program.
How to Re-architect Teamcenter FootprintMatt Tremmel
The document discusses recommendations for re-architecting a company's Teamcenter footprint. It recommends developing a global operating model, governance structure, and standardizing the Teamcenter environment. A case study shows a company had 30 instances across 47 sites with various versions and configurations. The recommendations include creating regional hubs, limiting new sites, and upgrading networks and hardware to support a consolidated footprint.
This document provides an overview of a breakfast briefing on wireless broadband and maximizing current investments through new services. The briefing covered several topics:
1) Mobile WiMAX certification is being updated, with the first Wave 2 products certified at 2.5GHz. Over 100 Mobile WiMAX products are expected to be certified by the end of 2008.
2) Challenges for Mobile WiMAX adoption include MIMO antenna size/weight, intellectual property issues, delays in spectrum auctions, and short battery life of client devices.
3) Next steps discussed generating unique applications to drive adoption, using Mobile WiMAX for both fixed and mobile services, and improving the user experience to differentiate it from other wireless alternatives.
Using Process Manager in HyperWorks to Streamline and Standardize FEA Model G...Altair
Currently our design engineering team uses a fairly extensive and well established set of Ansys analysis routines. While these analysis methods are fairly well standardized, the actual model generation has not been standardized to date. Depending on the individual designers skills and preferences, there are a variety of methods being employed for getting the geometry into Ansys for analysis. The model generation may also be affected by which analysis the engineer intends to run. Through the use of process manager we are working to introduce a more standardized as well as streamlined approach to model generation. This will allow us to cut model generation and iteration time for experienced users as well as automatically building in features so that each initial model contains everything needed to be used with our standard analysis routines. It will also have an added benefit of cutting training time for newer users, as well as broadening the amount of users that can create a useful FEA model for design engineering.
This webinar provides a step-by-step approach to getting started with a Big Data solution and what to expect in the first 90 days including:10 Steps to Starting your Big Data Project, 5 critical mistakes and 2 success stories.
NTT Communications operates a global tier 1 IP network designed to provide fast and reliable internet access and data transport services. They offer dedicated internet access, Ethernet services, IP multicast, IPv6 connectivity, managed router services, and security services such as DDoS attack countermeasures, intrusion detection and prevention. NTT Communications guarantees high network availability, low latency and packet loss through strict service level agreements.
TYNAX operates a global online platform that connects buyers and sellers of patents and technologies. It helps buyers find IP assets to purchase or license, and helps sellers find licensing or acquisition prospects. The platform allows participants around the world to connect and transact business, overcoming previous geographical and industry barriers. TYNAX reaches customers through listings on its exchange, partner websites, newsfeeds, and alerts to those tracking relevant topics. It facilitates the patent sale and technology transfer process through managing communications between buyers and sellers.
2009 P2 P Conference Keynote Krish, Ramesh Presentation - Using Six Sigma to ...Ramesh_Krish123
Ramesh Krish gave a keynote presentation at the Procure to Pay Summit on enhancing procure-to-pay redesign with process excellence. He discussed applying process improvement tools like DMAIC, process mapping, and measurement techniques to procure-to-pay processes. He provided examples of how to define opportunities, measure performance, analyze data to identify root causes, improve processes, and implement controls to ensure performance.
This document discusses the need for Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) in Africa given increasing internet connectivity and cyber threats on the continent. It outlines the changing digital landscape in Africa, including growing broadband infrastructure and more users. This expands the attack surface for malicious actors. The document then describes the objectives of a CERT in enhancing security awareness, building national expertise, assisting with cyber law, and establishing a central point of contact for incident reporting.
This document discusses cyber security strategies and approaches used by various governments and organizations. It outlines national strategies from the UK, US, Estonia, and Singapore, as well as approaches at the European Union level. Common themes across strategies include recognizing the interconnected nature of IT systems, moving from attack detection to prevention, and the need for joint public-private collaboration to develop regulations, share intelligence, and protect critical infrastructure and society.
This document outlines several DNS attack scenarios that will be demonstrated for educational purposes. The scenarios include cache poisoning targeting a nameserver, nameserver redelegation exploiting a vulnerability in a registry system, and malicious use targeting individual systems. Rules of engagement are provided to assure participants that while the demonstrations show potential attacks, no actual malicious activity will occur. Attendees are invited to observe the effects through DNS queries, simulated phishing emails, and traffic analysis on provided virtual machines.
- The document describes how DNS can be used maliciously for botnet command and control or amplification attacks, using a demonstration of a DNS bot.
- It provides the case study of the Conficker worm which used randomly generated domain names for instructions. A working group registered domains to prevent its activity until it switched to P2P.
- The demonstration shows a rogue DNS server instructing the bot to execute commands and post results via DNS queries, which can be seen in Wireshark.
- Mitigation strategies include domain blackholes, strengthening registration validation, detection mechanisms, and takedown policies developed with other organizations.
- The document discusses nameserver redirection attacks and SQL injection attacks against domain name registry systems.
- It provides examples of how attackers can change domain name registrations through SQL injection or by directly modifying registry databases to redirect traffic to malicious sites.
- A live demonstration shows how SQL injection can be used to enumerate and modify a registry database, redirecting a domain to a rogue IP address and server.
- Mitigation strategies include securing web applications, validating input, using authentication for changes, and information sharing about attacks.
- The document describes a demonstration of a DNS cache poisoning attack. It provides instructions for setting up the attack using tools on a Ubuntu VM. The attack spoofs DNS responses to redirect traffic from a domain to a malicious IP address controlled by the attacker. This could enable realistic phishing attacks. Mitigation strategies include DNSSEC, SSL, and monitoring recursive DNS servers, but user awareness remains important.
This document discusses organizational structures and policies related to DNS security. It outlines the various entities involved in managing DNS, including ICANN, IANA, RIRs, registries and registrars. It describes different registry models and where customer data is stored. It emphasizes that policies govern how registries operate and deal with issues like registrant requirements, dispute resolution, information release and takedown procedures. Developing comprehensive policies is important but also controversial as there are many stakeholders with differing needs.
This document discusses lessons learned from large scale cyber attacks in Hungary and Estonia and proposes policy recommendations. It summarizes a large phishing attack against Hungarian banks coordinated from abroad and distributed denial of service attacks against Estonia from compromised international machines. It describes the national and international responses to these incidents, highlighting coordination between CERT teams. Key lessons identified include the need for improved preparedness, early warning systems, resources for incident response, and international cooperation. The document proposes establishing national cybersecurity strategies, coordination bodies, and regular exercises in countries. It also discusses the value of information sharing organizations in critical infrastructure sectors.
- CERT-Hungary started as a project under the Ministry of IT and Communications and is now under the Prime Minister's Office. It has partnership agreements with several government agencies and is responsible for the security of the e-government backbone network.
- The Theodore Puskás Government Foundation, founded in 1993, is governed by civil code and oversees CERT-Hungary. It engages in technology transfer, information security, and other activities.
- The e-Commerce Act and Ministerial Decree on National Alert Service for Communications establish CERT-Hungary's role in critical infrastructure protection and incident reporting for communications providers.
The document provides an introduction to setting up a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT). It discusses the history of CERTs and internet security incidents. The document outlines the key components of establishing a CSIRT, including developing an overall strategy, business plan, operational procedures, training, and project plan. It also covers defining the CSIRT's services, organizational structure, and information security policies. The goal is to provide guidance on effectively planning and implementing a CSIRT to respond to cybersecurity incidents.
This document discusses cooperation between CERT-Hungary and banks from a cybersecurity perspective. It describes CERT-Hungary's role in information sharing, exercises, and recommendations to improve cybersecurity in the banking sector. It outlines various agreements and information sharing centers established between CERT-Hungary, banks, and financial regulators. It also discusses cybersecurity exercises conducted between 2007-2009 to test communication and response procedures for banks in the event of cyberattacks.
Best 20 SEO Techniques To Improve Website Visibility In SERPPixlogix Infotech
Boost your website's visibility with proven SEO techniques! Our latest blog dives into essential strategies to enhance your online presence, increase traffic, and rank higher on search engines. From keyword optimization to quality content creation, learn how to make your site stand out in the crowded digital landscape. Discover actionable tips and expert insights to elevate your SEO game.
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Predictive maintenance is a proactive approach that anticipates equipment failures before they happen. At the forefront of this innovative strategy is Artificial Intelligence (AI), which brings unprecedented precision and efficiency. AI in predictive maintenance is transforming industries by reducing downtime, minimizing costs, and enhancing productivity.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
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Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
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Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
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Ocean Lotus cyber threat actors represent a sophisticated, persistent, and politically motivated group that poses a significant risk to organizations and individuals in the Southeast Asian region. Their continuous evolution and adaptability underscore the need for robust cybersecurity measures and international cooperation to identify and mitigate the threats posed by such advanced persistent threat groups.
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When it comes to unit testing in the .NET ecosystem, developers have a wide range of options available. Among the most popular choices are NUnit, XUnit, and MSTest. These unit testing frameworks provide essential tools and features to help ensure the quality and reliability of code. However, understanding the differences between these frameworks is crucial for selecting the most suitable one for your projects.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
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A Comprehensive Guide to DeFi Development Services in 2024Intelisync
DeFi represents a paradigm shift in the financial industry. Instead of relying on traditional, centralized institutions like banks, DeFi leverages blockchain technology to create a decentralized network of financial services. This means that financial transactions can occur directly between parties, without intermediaries, using smart contracts on platforms like Ethereum.
In 2024, we are witnessing an explosion of new DeFi projects and protocols, each pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in finance.
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Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
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DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
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Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
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HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAU
Dealing With Security Threats
1. Dealing with security threats
A more connected world than what you think…..
Ilias Chantzos
Director EMEA & APJ Government Relations
Kenya 9 March 2010 1
2. Agenda
• A bit about Symantec and where
the information comes from
• The current threat landscape
– Threats to government and national
security/CIIP
– Threats to consumers
– Examples
• Anatomy of a security breach
• Operationalising security
3. Symantec Global Presence
Global Intelligence Network (GIN)
ATTACK ACTIVITY MALCODE INTELLIGENCE VULNERABILITIES SPAM / PHISHING
• 240,000 sensors •130M+ clients, servers, • 32,000+ vulnerabilities • 2.5M decoy accounts
• 200+ countries gateways • 11,000 vendors ‐72k techs • 8B+ emails analyzed daily
Gotheburg, Sweden
Aschheim, Germany
Reading, Green Park, GBR Wiesbaden, Germany
Calgary, Alberta, CA Ratingen, Germany
Dublin, Ireland Warsaw, Poland
Roseville, MN Shannon, Ireland
Seattle, WA Bloomfield Hills, MI Toronto, CA Zaltbommel, NLD
Springfield, OR Englewood, CO Brussels, Belgium Milan, Italy
Newton/Waltham, MA
San Francisco, CA Herndon, VA Seoul, South Korea
Oak Brook, IL Madrid, Spain Beijing, China
Mountain View, CA Alexandria, VA Tokyo, Japan
Orem, UT
Cupertino, CA Durham, NC
Dallas, TX Atlanta, Georgia Chengdu, China Shanghai, China
Santa Monica, CA
Houston, TX Heathrow, FL Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Dubai, UAE
San Luis Obispo, CA
Culver City, CA Austin Texas Miami, FL Taipei, Taiwan
Mumbai, India Hong Kong, China
Mexico City, Mexico
Pune, India
Chennai, India
Singapore
Brisbane, Aus
Sao Paola, Brazil
Sandton, South Africa Sydney, Aus
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Melbourne, Aus
4 MSS Security 11 Security Research 29 Global Support
Operations Centers Centers Centers
Government – Commercial ‐ Consumer
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4. How Likely Is It?
To be struck by lightening? To be bitten by a snake?
1 in 2.6M 1 in 42M
To be in car accident?
? To be attacked online?
1 in 300 1 in 5
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6. Malicious code is installed…
• Over 60% of all malicious code detected by Symantec discovered in 2008.
• Over 90% of threats are threats to confidential information.
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7. Information is at risk
Majority of data breaches in More than half of breaches
Education (27%), followed by (57%) due to theft or loss,
Government (20%) and followed by insecure policy
Healthcare (15%) (21%)
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8. Threat Activity Trends - Malicious Activity
• In 2008 the United States was the top country for malicious activity
(raw numbers) with 23% of the overall proportion. China was ranked
second with 9%.
• As Internet and broadband grows in certain countries their share of
malicious activity also grows.
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9. Governments Are Prime Targets
Certain contact and account data were taken, including user IDs and
passwords, email addresses, names, phone numbers, and some basic
demographic data.
Data breach at federal government jobsite USAJobs.gov
Hackers breached the site, then modified it to redirect users to a
rogue URL that in turn directed attack code against their systems.
Government travel site GovTrip.gov users suffer malware attacks
Administrators … were forced to withdraw the page after it was
defaced by more than 170 people over a frenzied few hours.
Defra website using Wiki editing techniques defaced
Shortly after police confiscated the group's servers, DoS attacks
took the official government website and the Swedish national
police site offline. The attacks were assumed to be a
reprisal from disgruntled Pirate Bay users.
DoS attacks on Swedish policy and official government website
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10. Different threat scenarios
• Collect intelligence on the infrastructure
– To attack the infrastructure
– To determine the location of valuable
information
• Collect intelligence
– Capture and extract information
– Intercept communications and ciphers
• Disable the infrastructure
– That you have already infiltrated
– Directly attack it from outside
• Collect OSINT
• Conduct Psyops
• Achieve information dominance by
communicating your own message
15. DDoS on Estonia some stats
• Attack Duration: •Peak saw traffic
• 128 Unique DDoS equivalent of 5000
Attacks: 17 attacks – Less than 1 minute clicks per second
– 115 – ICMP Floods 78 attacks – 1 minute ~ 1 hour •Attacks stopped at
16 attacks – 1 hour ~ 5 hours Midnight
– 4 – TCP SYN Floods
– 9 – Generic Traffic 8 attacks – 5 hours ~ 9 hours •Tactics shifted as
weaknesses emerged
Floods 7 attacks – 10 hours or more
Source = ArborSert •Swamped web sites
80 associated with
Government Ministries,
Banks, Newspapers &
• Daily Attack Rate: 60
Broadcasters
– 03/05/2007 = 21 40
•Emergency Services
– 04/05/2007 = 17 20 Number disabled for at
least 1 hour
– 08/05/2007 = 31 0
•Access was cut to
– 09/05/2007 = 58
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16. Cyber defense and shooting warfare
• Why blow something up?
– If you can use it to collect intelligence
– If you can disable it when you want
– If you can use it afterwards again
• Russian attack in Georgia
– Information‐intelligence is power
– Preceded by cyber attack
– Psychological effect/operations
– Information dominance
– Propaganda
22. Current and future trends
• Hacking is for fortune not for fame
• Attackers become more sophisticated and
well invested
• Target is confidential information
• Attack techniques increase in
sophistication and stealth
– Single use malware
– Evasion techniques (web and coding)
• Increased sophistication of botnets
• Virtual worlds and social engineering
• Critical infrastructure protection
dependant on Internet Security
24. Stolen information is sold
• Credit card information (32%) and bank account credentials (19%)
continue to be the most frequently advertised items.
• The price range of credit cards remained consistent in 2008, ranging
from $0.06 to $30 per card number.
• Compromised email accounts can provide access to other confidential
information and additional resources.
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25. Website compromise
• Attackers locate and compromise a high-traffic site through a vulnerability
specific to the site or in a Web application it hosts.
• Once the site is compromised, attackers modify pages so malicious content is
served to visitors.
Site-specific vulnerabilities Web application vulnerabilities
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26. Vulnerability Trends
Browser plug-in vulnerabilities
• Vulnerabilities in Web browser plug-ins are frequently exploited to install
malicious software.
• Memory corruption vulnerabilities again made up the majority of the type
of vulnerabilities in browser plug-in technologies for 2008, with 272
vulnerabilities classified as such.
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27. Vulnerability Trends
Unpatched vulnerabilities by vendor
• In 2008, there were 112 unpatched vulnerabilities affecting enterprise-class vendors
compared to 144 in 2007.
• Microsoft had the most, with a total of 46 unpatched vulnerabilities.
• Of the 112 unpatched enterprise vulnerabilities, 37 were low severity, 71 were medium
severity, and 4 were high severity.
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28. Malicious Code Trends Types
• Trojans made up 68 percent of the volume of the top 50 malicious code
samples reported in 2008, a minor decrease from 69 percent in 2007.
• Worms increased slightly from 26% in 2007 to 29% in 2008.
• The percentage of back doors decreased from 21% to 15% in the
current period.
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29. Malicious Code Trends
Propagation mechanisms
• 66% of potential malicious code infections propagated as shared executable
files, up significantly from 44% in 2007.
• Malicious code using P2P file sharing protocols declined from 17% in 2007 to
10% in 2008.
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30. Spam
Country of Origin
• Over the past year, Symantec observed a 192 percent increase in
spam detected across the Internet as a whole, from 119.6 billion
messages in 2007 to 349.6 billion in 2008.
• In 2008, bot networks were responsible for the distribution of
approximately 90 percent of all spam email.
• Russia, Turkey, and Brazil experienced significant increases in spam
volume this year.
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31. Spam
Categories
• Internet-related spam was the top category with 24% followed by
commercial product spam with 19%
• Financial spam relatively constant at 16%.
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32. An example how to exploit a users
Phisher
Cashier
Spammer Fraud
Website
Egg Drop (+ Trojan horse)
Server
Bot -Herder
Phishing Messages
Victims
34. Anatomy of a breach
Disruption of operations
Large-scale Defacing
DDoS attacks websites
Organized Well Meaning Malicious
Criminal Insider Insider
Malware outbreaks within Stealthy ex-filtration or unintended
protected perimeter loss of confidential data
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35. Well‐Meaning Insider
Hacker
“Well-Meaning Insider” Breach
Sources
1. Data on servers & desktops
Desktop Firewall
2. Lost/stolen laptops, mobile devices
3. Email, Web mail, removable devices
Server
4. Third‐party data loss incidents
Employee
5. Business processes
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36. Targeted Attacks
1 2 3 4
INCURSION DISCOVERY CAPTURE EXFILTRATION
Attacker breaks in via Map organization’s Access data on Confidential data sent to
targeted malware, systems unprotected systems hacker team in the clear,
improper credentials or wrapped in encrypted
SQL injection Automatically find Install root kits to packets or in zipped
confidential data capture network data files with passwords
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37. Malicious Insiders
Home
Computer
IM Firewall
Malicious Insider: Four Types
Unhappy Webmail
Employee 1. White collar criminals
Email
2. Terminated employees
Mobile 3. Career builders
Device
4. Industrial spies
Unhappy
CD/DVD
Employee
USB
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39. Establishing In‐depth Defense
Future government Interconnected networks
Traditional ‘Bastion’
require in-depth,
capabilities are built on security models do not
proactive & agile defense
interconnected systems effectively support such
at the periphery and the
and effective information agile, interconnected
endpoint of infrastructure
sharing networks
and information
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40. Collecting intelligence – Real time
situation awareness
what enables the wise sovereign and
the good general to strike and
conquer, and achieve things
beyond the reach of ordinary men,
is foreknowledge
SUN TZU – on the Art of
War
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42. How to Stop Security Breaches
Protect
Automate review Identify threats in
information
of entitlements real time
proactively
Integrate security Prevent data Stop targeted
operations exfiltration attacks
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