The present study examined a selection of 76 ransomware splash screens collected from a variety of sources. These splash screens were analysed according to surface information, including aspects of visual appearance, the use of language, cultural icons, payment and payment types. The results from the current study showed that, whilst there was a wide variation in the construction of ransomware splash screens, there was a good degree of commonality, particularly in terms of the structure and use of key aspects of social engineering used to elicit payment from the victims. There was the emergence of a sub-set of ransomware that, in the context of this report, was termed ‘Cuckoo’ ransomware. This type of attack often purported to be from an official source requesting payment for alleged transgressions.
An Indistinguishability Model for Evaluating Diverse Classes of Phishing Atta...CSCJournals
Phishing is a growing threat to Internet users and causes billions of dollars in damage every year. While there are a number of research articles that study the tactics, techniques and procedures employed by phishers in the literature, in this paper, we present a theoretical yet practical model to study this menacing threat in a formal manner. While it is common folklore knowledge that a successful phishing attack entails creating messages that are indistinguishable from the natural, expected messages by the intended victim, this concept has not been formalized. Our model attempts to capture a phishing attack in terms of this indistinguishability between the natural and phishing message probability distributions. We view the actions performed by a phisher as an attempt to create messages that are indistinguishable to the victim from that of “normal” messages. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that places phishing on a concrete theoretical framework and offers a new perspective to analyze this threat. We propose metrics to analyze the success probability of a phishing attack taking into account the input used by a phisher and the work involved in creating deceptive email messages. Finally, we study and apply our model to a new class of phishing attacks called collaborative spear phishing that is gaining momentum. Recent examples include Operation Woolen-Goldfish in 2015, Rocket Kitten in 2014 and Epsilon email breach in 2011. We point out fundamental flaws in the current email-based marketing business model which enables such targeted spear phishing collaborative attacks. In this sense, our study is very timely and presents new and emerging trends in phishing.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
A SURVEY ON MALWARE DETECTION AND ANALYSIS TOOLSIJNSA Journal
The huge amounts of data and information that need to be analyzed for possible malicious intent are one of the big and significant challenges that the Web faces today. Malicious software, also referred to as malware developed by attackers, is polymorphic and metamorphic in nature which can modify the code as it spreads. In addition, the diversity and volume of their variants severely undermine the effectiveness of traditional defenses that typically use signature-based techniques and are unable to detect malicious executables previously unknown. Malware family variants share typical patterns of behavior that indicate their origin and purpose. The behavioral trends observed either statically or dynamically can be manipulated by using machine learning techniques to identify and classify unknown malware into their established families. This survey paper gives an overview of the malware detection and analysis techniques and tools.
This paper presents suggestions for an exploratory approach to understanding cybercrime that we call “cybercartography” using a set of tools that have not been frequently applied to this domain. We refer to 1) fifty-plus years of experience by scientists and governments in integrating socioeconomic and political data organized by administrative boundaries with satellite raster and global gridded global data sets 2) gridded global models 3) global event data sets 4) centuries of experience with the art and science of cartography. To make this less abstract, consider the broad generalization that most current generation cyberthreat maps involve lots of blinking dots and network graphs superimposed over an outline or “blue marble” view of the world. Then compare some of the cartographic techniques that are often used to map other knowledge domains—for example, National Geographic-style cartography, high-resolution administrative boundary maps produced using the US census, and gridded global data sets. A deeper level of insight into the world of cybercrime can be gained in combining the standard cyberthreat network analyses with place-specific variables which can lead to greater insights into who the cybercriminals are, what makes a particular region fertile ground for these activities, why some regions are less susceptible to developing cybercriminals, and where new criminal activities are likely to spring-up and flourish. These different approaches are not superior to one another, but they can be complementary.
How To Turbo-Charge Incident Response With Threat IntelligenceResilient Systems
Minutes, hours, days - each one counts when responding to a security incident. Yet most firms have a lot of room for improvement.
According to the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, in 66% of cases (up from 56% last year), breaches remained undiscovered for years, and in 22% of cases, it took months to fully contain the incident.
This webinar will review the challenges firms face in trying to create a rapid and decisive incident response (IR) process. It will then highlight the crucial role that timely, contextual threat intelligence can play in turbo-charging incident response, particularly when tightly integrated with the broader IR discipline.
Our presenters will reveal the power of this approach by demonstrating Co3's integrated threat intelligence capabilities including intel from the cyber threat intelligence experts at iSIGHT Partners.
Our featured speakers for this webinar will be:
- Ted Julian, Chief Marketing Officer, Co3 Systems
- Tim Armstrong, Security Incident Response Specialist, Co3 Systems
- Matt Hartley, VP of Product Management, iSIGHT Partners
An Indistinguishability Model for Evaluating Diverse Classes of Phishing Atta...CSCJournals
Phishing is a growing threat to Internet users and causes billions of dollars in damage every year. While there are a number of research articles that study the tactics, techniques and procedures employed by phishers in the literature, in this paper, we present a theoretical yet practical model to study this menacing threat in a formal manner. While it is common folklore knowledge that a successful phishing attack entails creating messages that are indistinguishable from the natural, expected messages by the intended victim, this concept has not been formalized. Our model attempts to capture a phishing attack in terms of this indistinguishability between the natural and phishing message probability distributions. We view the actions performed by a phisher as an attempt to create messages that are indistinguishable to the victim from that of “normal” messages. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that places phishing on a concrete theoretical framework and offers a new perspective to analyze this threat. We propose metrics to analyze the success probability of a phishing attack taking into account the input used by a phisher and the work involved in creating deceptive email messages. Finally, we study and apply our model to a new class of phishing attacks called collaborative spear phishing that is gaining momentum. Recent examples include Operation Woolen-Goldfish in 2015, Rocket Kitten in 2014 and Epsilon email breach in 2011. We point out fundamental flaws in the current email-based marketing business model which enables such targeted spear phishing collaborative attacks. In this sense, our study is very timely and presents new and emerging trends in phishing.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
A SURVEY ON MALWARE DETECTION AND ANALYSIS TOOLSIJNSA Journal
The huge amounts of data and information that need to be analyzed for possible malicious intent are one of the big and significant challenges that the Web faces today. Malicious software, also referred to as malware developed by attackers, is polymorphic and metamorphic in nature which can modify the code as it spreads. In addition, the diversity and volume of their variants severely undermine the effectiveness of traditional defenses that typically use signature-based techniques and are unable to detect malicious executables previously unknown. Malware family variants share typical patterns of behavior that indicate their origin and purpose. The behavioral trends observed either statically or dynamically can be manipulated by using machine learning techniques to identify and classify unknown malware into their established families. This survey paper gives an overview of the malware detection and analysis techniques and tools.
This paper presents suggestions for an exploratory approach to understanding cybercrime that we call “cybercartography” using a set of tools that have not been frequently applied to this domain. We refer to 1) fifty-plus years of experience by scientists and governments in integrating socioeconomic and political data organized by administrative boundaries with satellite raster and global gridded global data sets 2) gridded global models 3) global event data sets 4) centuries of experience with the art and science of cartography. To make this less abstract, consider the broad generalization that most current generation cyberthreat maps involve lots of blinking dots and network graphs superimposed over an outline or “blue marble” view of the world. Then compare some of the cartographic techniques that are often used to map other knowledge domains—for example, National Geographic-style cartography, high-resolution administrative boundary maps produced using the US census, and gridded global data sets. A deeper level of insight into the world of cybercrime can be gained in combining the standard cyberthreat network analyses with place-specific variables which can lead to greater insights into who the cybercriminals are, what makes a particular region fertile ground for these activities, why some regions are less susceptible to developing cybercriminals, and where new criminal activities are likely to spring-up and flourish. These different approaches are not superior to one another, but they can be complementary.
How To Turbo-Charge Incident Response With Threat IntelligenceResilient Systems
Minutes, hours, days - each one counts when responding to a security incident. Yet most firms have a lot of room for improvement.
According to the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, in 66% of cases (up from 56% last year), breaches remained undiscovered for years, and in 22% of cases, it took months to fully contain the incident.
This webinar will review the challenges firms face in trying to create a rapid and decisive incident response (IR) process. It will then highlight the crucial role that timely, contextual threat intelligence can play in turbo-charging incident response, particularly when tightly integrated with the broader IR discipline.
Our presenters will reveal the power of this approach by demonstrating Co3's integrated threat intelligence capabilities including intel from the cyber threat intelligence experts at iSIGHT Partners.
Our featured speakers for this webinar will be:
- Ted Julian, Chief Marketing Officer, Co3 Systems
- Tim Armstrong, Security Incident Response Specialist, Co3 Systems
- Matt Hartley, VP of Product Management, iSIGHT Partners
A Mitigation Technique For Internet Security Threat of Toolkits AttackCSCJournals
The development of attack toolkits conforms that cybercrime is driven primarily by financial motivations as noted from the significant profits made by both the developers and buyers. In this paper, an enhanced hybrid attack toolkit mitigation model was designed to tackle the economy of the attack toolkits using different techniques to discredit it. The mitigation looked into Zeus, a common and the most frequently used attack toolkit to discover the hidden information used by the attackers to launch attacks. This information helped in creating honey toolkits, honeybot and honeytokens. Honeybots are used to submit honeytoken to botmasters, who sells to the internet black market. Both the botmasters, his mules and buyers attempts to steal huge amount of money using the stolen credentials which includes both real and honeytokens and will be detected by an attack detector which sends an alert on any transaction involving the honeytokens. A reconfirmation process which is secured using enhanced RC6 cryptosystem is enacted. The reconfirmation message in plain text is securely encrypted into cipher text and transmitted from the bank to the legitimate account owner and vise visa. The result of the crypto analysis carried out on the encrypted text using RC6 encryption algorithm showed that the cipher text is not transparent.
Improving cyber security using biosecurity experienceNorman Johnson
See the paper that goes with the PPT on my LinkedIn.
See detailed comments in PPT.
Abstract: How does the current planning and response to cyber threats compare to biological threats planning and response? How do the resources of each compare? Biothreats have been a concern for millennia, and humans systems have had significant time and funding to develop a mature response. In this paper we observe that by comparison, cyber response is still in a relatively immature stage, possibly comparable to the state of public health protection prior to the implementation of safe water, sanitary conditions and vaccinations. Furthermore, we argue that because of the similarity between bio- and cyber systems, there are significant opportunities to advance the maturity of cyber research and response, either by using bio analogies for inspiration or by the direct transfer of resources. An analysis of existing cyber resources and gaps are compared to available bio resources. Specific examples are provided for the application of bio-resources to cyber systems.
Optimised malware detection in digital forensicsIJNSA Journal
On the Internet, malware is one of the most serious threats to system security. Most complex issues and
problems on any systems are caused by malware and spam. Networks and systems can be accessed and
compromised by malware known as botnets, which compromise other systems through a coordinated
attack. Such malware uses anti-forensic techniques to avoid detection and investigation. To prevent systems
from the malicious activity of this malware, a new framework is required that aims to develop an optimised
technique for malware detection. Hence, this paper demonstrates new approaches to perform malware
analysis in forensic investigations and discusses how such a framework may be developed.
How To Turbo-Charge Incident Response With Threat IntelligenceResilient Systems
Minutes, hours, days - each one counts when responding to a security incident. Yet most firms have a lot of room for improvement. According to the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, in 66% of cases (up from 56% last year), breaches remained undiscovered for years, and in 22% of cases, it took months to fully contain the incident.
This webinar will review the challenges firms face in trying to create a rapid and decisive incident response (IR) process. It will then highlight the crucial role that timely, contextual threat intelligence can play in turbo-charging incident response, particularly when tightly integrated with the broader IR discipline. Finally, it will reveal the power of this approach by demonstrating Co3's integrated threat intelligence capabilities including intel from industry-leader iSIGHT Partners.
Invesitigation of Malware and Forensic Tools on Internet IJECEIAES
Malware is an application that is harmful to your forensic information. Basically, malware analyses is the process of analysing the behaviours of malicious code and then create signatures to detect and defend against it.Malware, such as Trojan horse, Worms and Spyware severely threatens the forensic security. This research observed that although malware and its variants may vary a lot from content signatures, they share some behaviour features at a higher level which are more precise in revealing the real intent of malware. This paper investigates the various techniques of malware behaviour extraction and analysis. In addition, we discuss the implications of malware analysis tools for malware detection based on various techniques.
With the development and rapid growth in IT infrastructure, malicious code attacks are considered as the
main threat to cybersecurity. Malicious JavaScript’s which are intentionally crafted by the attackers inside the web page
over the web as an emerging security issue affecting millions of users. In past few years, a number of studies have been
conducted based on machine learning for detection of malicious JavaScript code attacks has demonstrated a poor
detection accuracy and increased performance overheads. In this paper, an effective interceptor approach for detection of
multivariate and novel malicious JavaScript’s based on deep learning is proposed and evaluated. Hybrid feature set based
on static and dynamic analysis were used. The dataset which was used in this study consists of 32,000 benign webpages
and 12,900 malicious pages. The experimental results show that this approach was able to detect 99.01% of new malicious
code variants.
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security,IJCSIS ISSN 1947-5500, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Email: ijcsiseditor@gmail.com
http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/
https://google.academia.edu/JournalofComputerScience
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ijcsis-research-publications-8b916516/
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/E-1319-2016
Traditionally, "Cryptography" is a benediction to information processing and communications, it helps people to store information securely and the private communications over long distances. Cryptovirology is the study of applications of cryptography to build the malicious software. It is an investigation, how modern cryptographic tools and paradigms can be used to strengthen, develop and improve new malicious software attacks. Cryptovirology attacks have been categorized as : give malware enhanced privacy and be more robust against reverse-engineering, secondly give the attacker enhanced anonymity while communicating with deployed malware. This paper presents the idea of ``Cryptovirology'' which introduce a twist on how cryptography can also be used offensively. Being offensive means, it can be used to mount extortion based attacks that cause loss of access to information, loss of confidentiality, and information leakage, tasks which cryptography usually prevents. Also analyze threats and attacks that misuse of cryptography can cause when combined with fraudulent software (viruses, Trojans). Public-key cryptography is very essential for the attacks that based on cryptovirology. This paper also suggest some of the countermeasures, mechanisms to cope with and prevent such attacks. Even if the attackers actions on the host machine are being monitored, it still cannot be proven beyond reasonable doubt that he or she is the attacker; and it is an “originator-concealing attack”. Evidence should be collected from the “author’s own system which was used for the attack”. These attacks have implications on how the use of
cryptographic tools and techniques should be audited and managed in general purpose computing environments, and imply that access to the cryptographic tools should be in well control of the system(such as API routines). The experimental virus would demonstrate how cryptographic packages can be packed into a small space, which may have independent existence. These are many powerful attacks, where the attacker can encrypt the victim’s data for ransom and release it after hostage.
ENG 132Evaluation Argument One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestSp.docxgidmanmary
ENG 132
Evaluation Argument: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Spring 2019
An evaluation argument critiques a subject or topic, based on certain criteria or reasons to determine that the topic is good, bad, the best, or the worst. It’s important that the criteria you choose to evaluate your topic sounds reasonable to your audience. If they don’t accept your criteria about what makes your topic good or bad, then it’s doubtful they’ll be persuaded by your argument. Another way to add to your credibility is to acknowledge that there’s something good (or bad) about your subject, even if overall you find your subject bad (or good).
Examples of this type of argument might look something like this:
Is this the right college or academic degree for me?
Was the movie suspenseful, entertaining, worthwhile?
Should I wear these clothes?
Writers bring focus to their evaluations by revealing the criteria they are using to judge the topic being evaluated. They often present their argument up front, providing readers with a good roadmap of their argument and reasoning.
In your essay, you should:
Summarize the details
Present well-developed support for your criteria
Include at least one paragraph representing/reconciling the opposition
Discuss the significance of your review
After reading the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, write a brief evaluation essay that both establishes a set of criteria and illustrates them. Essays should be titled, typed, and double-spaced, and they should be a minimum of 2 pages long. If you use any research, please cite it!
Running head: ISOL 534 – Application Security 2
Introduction
The topic of security has been an issue for many countries and citizens alike as states struggle to root out the vice of insecurity that is posing a significant threat especially during this technological era where everything is virtually done online. Application security is an essential element in internet applications. Application security is the process of making apps secure from cyber-attacks by hackers and other cyber-crime individuals. The process involves identifying, fixing and amplifying the safety of these apps. Since we are in a technological era, application security has become a real concern to generally the whole internet. Internet applications provide a better view for clients in terms of how the information they seek is displayed in webpages and websites. The process is gathering lots of attention as technology keeps on advancing as well as cyber-crimes are still on the rise. Cyber-crime today has focused its attacks on the apps majorly. Therefore, it is vital for the owners of these apps to establish secure connections and enhance enough sustainable security measures such as building and maintain secure firewalls hindering the hackers from having access to their personal information. Cyber-crimes have been on the ri ...
An Indistinguishability Model for Evaluating Diverse Classes of Phishing Atta...CSCJournals
Phishing is a growing threat to Internet users and causes billions of dollars in damage every year. While there are a number of research articles that study the tactics, techniques and procedures employed by phishers in the literature, in this paper, we present a theoretical yet practical model to study this menacing threat in a formal manner. While it is common folklore knowledge that a successful phishing attack entails creating messages that are indistinguishable from the natural, expected messages by the intended victim, this concept has not been formalized. Our model attempts to capture a phishing attack in terms of this indistinguishability between the natural and phishing message probability distributions. We view the actions performed by a phisher as an attempt to create messages that are indistinguishable to the victim from that of “normal” messages. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that places phishing on a concrete theoretical framework and offers a new perspective to analyze this threat. We propose metrics to analyze the success probability of a phishing attack taking into account the input used by a phisher and the work involved in creating deceptive email messages. Finally, we study and apply our model to a new class of phishing attacks called collaborative spear phishing that is gaining momentum. Recent examples include Operation Woolen-Goldfish in 2015, Rocket Kitten in 2014 and Epsilon email breach in 2011. We point out fundamental flaws in the current email-based marketing business model which enables such targeted spear phishing collaborative attacks. In this sense, our study is very timely and presents new and emerging trends in phishing.
A Mitigation Technique For Internet Security Threat of Toolkits AttackCSCJournals
The development of attack toolkits conforms that cybercrime is driven primarily by financial motivations as noted from the significant profits made by both the developers and buyers. In this paper, an enhanced hybrid attack toolkit mitigation model was designed to tackle the economy of the attack toolkits using different techniques to discredit it. The mitigation looked into Zeus, a common and the most frequently used attack toolkit to discover the hidden information used by the attackers to launch attacks. This information helped in creating honey toolkits, honeybot and honeytokens. Honeybots are used to submit honeytoken to botmasters, who sells to the internet black market. Both the botmasters, his mules and buyers attempts to steal huge amount of money using the stolen credentials which includes both real and honeytokens and will be detected by an attack detector which sends an alert on any transaction involving the honeytokens. A reconfirmation process which is secured using enhanced RC6 cryptosystem is enacted. The reconfirmation message in plain text is securely encrypted into cipher text and transmitted from the bank to the legitimate account owner and vise visa. The result of the crypto analysis carried out on the encrypted text using RC6 encryption algorithm showed that the cipher text is not transparent.
Improving cyber security using biosecurity experienceNorman Johnson
See the paper that goes with the PPT on my LinkedIn.
See detailed comments in PPT.
Abstract: How does the current planning and response to cyber threats compare to biological threats planning and response? How do the resources of each compare? Biothreats have been a concern for millennia, and humans systems have had significant time and funding to develop a mature response. In this paper we observe that by comparison, cyber response is still in a relatively immature stage, possibly comparable to the state of public health protection prior to the implementation of safe water, sanitary conditions and vaccinations. Furthermore, we argue that because of the similarity between bio- and cyber systems, there are significant opportunities to advance the maturity of cyber research and response, either by using bio analogies for inspiration or by the direct transfer of resources. An analysis of existing cyber resources and gaps are compared to available bio resources. Specific examples are provided for the application of bio-resources to cyber systems.
Optimised malware detection in digital forensicsIJNSA Journal
On the Internet, malware is one of the most serious threats to system security. Most complex issues and
problems on any systems are caused by malware and spam. Networks and systems can be accessed and
compromised by malware known as botnets, which compromise other systems through a coordinated
attack. Such malware uses anti-forensic techniques to avoid detection and investigation. To prevent systems
from the malicious activity of this malware, a new framework is required that aims to develop an optimised
technique for malware detection. Hence, this paper demonstrates new approaches to perform malware
analysis in forensic investigations and discusses how such a framework may be developed.
How To Turbo-Charge Incident Response With Threat IntelligenceResilient Systems
Minutes, hours, days - each one counts when responding to a security incident. Yet most firms have a lot of room for improvement. According to the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, in 66% of cases (up from 56% last year), breaches remained undiscovered for years, and in 22% of cases, it took months to fully contain the incident.
This webinar will review the challenges firms face in trying to create a rapid and decisive incident response (IR) process. It will then highlight the crucial role that timely, contextual threat intelligence can play in turbo-charging incident response, particularly when tightly integrated with the broader IR discipline. Finally, it will reveal the power of this approach by demonstrating Co3's integrated threat intelligence capabilities including intel from industry-leader iSIGHT Partners.
Invesitigation of Malware and Forensic Tools on Internet IJECEIAES
Malware is an application that is harmful to your forensic information. Basically, malware analyses is the process of analysing the behaviours of malicious code and then create signatures to detect and defend against it.Malware, such as Trojan horse, Worms and Spyware severely threatens the forensic security. This research observed that although malware and its variants may vary a lot from content signatures, they share some behaviour features at a higher level which are more precise in revealing the real intent of malware. This paper investigates the various techniques of malware behaviour extraction and analysis. In addition, we discuss the implications of malware analysis tools for malware detection based on various techniques.
With the development and rapid growth in IT infrastructure, malicious code attacks are considered as the
main threat to cybersecurity. Malicious JavaScript’s which are intentionally crafted by the attackers inside the web page
over the web as an emerging security issue affecting millions of users. In past few years, a number of studies have been
conducted based on machine learning for detection of malicious JavaScript code attacks has demonstrated a poor
detection accuracy and increased performance overheads. In this paper, an effective interceptor approach for detection of
multivariate and novel malicious JavaScript’s based on deep learning is proposed and evaluated. Hybrid feature set based
on static and dynamic analysis were used. The dataset which was used in this study consists of 32,000 benign webpages
and 12,900 malicious pages. The experimental results show that this approach was able to detect 99.01% of new malicious
code variants.
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security,IJCSIS ISSN 1947-5500, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Email: ijcsiseditor@gmail.com
http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/
https://google.academia.edu/JournalofComputerScience
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ijcsis-research-publications-8b916516/
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/E-1319-2016
Traditionally, "Cryptography" is a benediction to information processing and communications, it helps people to store information securely and the private communications over long distances. Cryptovirology is the study of applications of cryptography to build the malicious software. It is an investigation, how modern cryptographic tools and paradigms can be used to strengthen, develop and improve new malicious software attacks. Cryptovirology attacks have been categorized as : give malware enhanced privacy and be more robust against reverse-engineering, secondly give the attacker enhanced anonymity while communicating with deployed malware. This paper presents the idea of ``Cryptovirology'' which introduce a twist on how cryptography can also be used offensively. Being offensive means, it can be used to mount extortion based attacks that cause loss of access to information, loss of confidentiality, and information leakage, tasks which cryptography usually prevents. Also analyze threats and attacks that misuse of cryptography can cause when combined with fraudulent software (viruses, Trojans). Public-key cryptography is very essential for the attacks that based on cryptovirology. This paper also suggest some of the countermeasures, mechanisms to cope with and prevent such attacks. Even if the attackers actions on the host machine are being monitored, it still cannot be proven beyond reasonable doubt that he or she is the attacker; and it is an “originator-concealing attack”. Evidence should be collected from the “author’s own system which was used for the attack”. These attacks have implications on how the use of
cryptographic tools and techniques should be audited and managed in general purpose computing environments, and imply that access to the cryptographic tools should be in well control of the system(such as API routines). The experimental virus would demonstrate how cryptographic packages can be packed into a small space, which may have independent existence. These are many powerful attacks, where the attacker can encrypt the victim’s data for ransom and release it after hostage.
ENG 132Evaluation Argument One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestSp.docxgidmanmary
ENG 132
Evaluation Argument: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Spring 2019
An evaluation argument critiques a subject or topic, based on certain criteria or reasons to determine that the topic is good, bad, the best, or the worst. It’s important that the criteria you choose to evaluate your topic sounds reasonable to your audience. If they don’t accept your criteria about what makes your topic good or bad, then it’s doubtful they’ll be persuaded by your argument. Another way to add to your credibility is to acknowledge that there’s something good (or bad) about your subject, even if overall you find your subject bad (or good).
Examples of this type of argument might look something like this:
Is this the right college or academic degree for me?
Was the movie suspenseful, entertaining, worthwhile?
Should I wear these clothes?
Writers bring focus to their evaluations by revealing the criteria they are using to judge the topic being evaluated. They often present their argument up front, providing readers with a good roadmap of their argument and reasoning.
In your essay, you should:
Summarize the details
Present well-developed support for your criteria
Include at least one paragraph representing/reconciling the opposition
Discuss the significance of your review
After reading the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, write a brief evaluation essay that both establishes a set of criteria and illustrates them. Essays should be titled, typed, and double-spaced, and they should be a minimum of 2 pages long. If you use any research, please cite it!
Running head: ISOL 534 – Application Security 2
Introduction
The topic of security has been an issue for many countries and citizens alike as states struggle to root out the vice of insecurity that is posing a significant threat especially during this technological era where everything is virtually done online. Application security is an essential element in internet applications. Application security is the process of making apps secure from cyber-attacks by hackers and other cyber-crime individuals. The process involves identifying, fixing and amplifying the safety of these apps. Since we are in a technological era, application security has become a real concern to generally the whole internet. Internet applications provide a better view for clients in terms of how the information they seek is displayed in webpages and websites. The process is gathering lots of attention as technology keeps on advancing as well as cyber-crimes are still on the rise. Cyber-crime today has focused its attacks on the apps majorly. Therefore, it is vital for the owners of these apps to establish secure connections and enhance enough sustainable security measures such as building and maintain secure firewalls hindering the hackers from having access to their personal information. Cyber-crimes have been on the ri ...
An Indistinguishability Model for Evaluating Diverse Classes of Phishing Atta...CSCJournals
Phishing is a growing threat to Internet users and causes billions of dollars in damage every year. While there are a number of research articles that study the tactics, techniques and procedures employed by phishers in the literature, in this paper, we present a theoretical yet practical model to study this menacing threat in a formal manner. While it is common folklore knowledge that a successful phishing attack entails creating messages that are indistinguishable from the natural, expected messages by the intended victim, this concept has not been formalized. Our model attempts to capture a phishing attack in terms of this indistinguishability between the natural and phishing message probability distributions. We view the actions performed by a phisher as an attempt to create messages that are indistinguishable to the victim from that of “normal” messages. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that places phishing on a concrete theoretical framework and offers a new perspective to analyze this threat. We propose metrics to analyze the success probability of a phishing attack taking into account the input used by a phisher and the work involved in creating deceptive email messages. Finally, we study and apply our model to a new class of phishing attacks called collaborative spear phishing that is gaining momentum. Recent examples include Operation Woolen-Goldfish in 2015, Rocket Kitten in 2014 and Epsilon email breach in 2011. We point out fundamental flaws in the current email-based marketing business model which enables such targeted spear phishing collaborative attacks. In this sense, our study is very timely and presents new and emerging trends in phishing.
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ESSENTIALS OF
Management Information Systems 12e
KENNETH C. LAUDON AND JANE P. LAUDON
continued
Systems
CHAPTER 4 ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
CASE 3 Data Mining for Terrorists and Innocents
SUMMARY This case describes how data mining software, combined with Big Data collection from
the Internet, are used to identify potential terrorists. The PRISM program of the U.S.
National Security Agency (NSA) is an on-going effort to enable such Internet surveillance.
In some cases innocent people have been mistaken for terrorists, while sometimes a
terrorist plot is disrupted. The existence of the PRISM program was a national security
secret until its existence was revealed by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor.
There are two videos in this case:
(1) Data Mining for Terrorists and Innocents (L= 5:10)
URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKpD7MC22I
(2) How Does the PRISM Program Work? (L=1:59)
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR6YyYdF8ho
CASE Anti-terrorism agencies around the world have made effective use of new surveillance tech-
nologies that offer unprecedented abilities to identify and apprehend potential terrorists.
Today’s terrorists are by nature difficult to track, as disconnected groups of individuals can
use the Internet to communicate their plans with lower chance of detection. Anti-terrorist
technology has evolved to better handle this new type of threat.
But there are drawbacks to these new strategies. Often, innocent people may find their
privacy compromised or completely eliminated as a result of inaccurate information.
Surveillance technologies are constantly improving. While this makes it more difficult for
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terrorists and other criminals to exchange information, it also jeopardizes our privacy, on
the Internet and elsewhere, going forward. For instance, it may be necessary to monitor the
phone calls of all American citizens, and visiting foreigners, in order to uncover a terrorist
plot. Is this reason for worry? Are comparisons to Orwell’s 1984 appropriate or overblown?
The first video displays both the positive and negative results of new advances in tech-
nology. The first segment describes a program called the Dark Web Project developed by
a team at the University of Tucson that combs the Internet in search of militant leaders
and their followers. The program creates profiles based on word length, punctuation,
syntax, and content, and displays information about the personality type of an individual
graphically.
The plotting of information on a graph represents whether the user is violent or militant,
inexperienced and seeking advice, or an opinion leader holding sway over many more
people. Programs like this have been adopted by many intelligence agencies worldwide,
who incorporate it into their arsenal of terrorist surveillance technologies.
It’s unclear if this project i.
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CHAPTER 4 ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
CASE 3 Data Mining for Terrorists and Innocents
SUMMARY This case describes how data mining software, combined with Big Data collection from
the Internet, are used to identify potential terrorists. The PRISM program of the U.S.
National Security Agency (NSA) is an on-going effort to enable such Internet surveillance.
In some cases innocent people have been mistaken for terrorists, while sometimes a
terrorist plot is disrupted. The existence of the PRISM program was a national security
secret until its existence was revealed by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor.
There are two videos in this case:
(1) Data Mining for Terrorists and Innocents (L= 5:10)
URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKpD7MC22I
(2) How Does the PRISM Program Work? (L=1:59)
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR6YyYdF8ho
CASE Anti-terrorism agencies around the world have made effective use of new surveillance tech-
nologies that offer unprecedented abilities to identify and apprehend potential terrorists.
Today’s terrorists are by nature difficult to track, as disconnected groups of individuals can
use the Internet to communicate their plans with lower chance of detection. Anti-terrorist
technology has evolved to better handle this new type of threat.
But there are drawbacks to these new strategies. Often, innocent people may find their
privacy compromised or completely eliminated as a result of inaccurate information.
Surveillance technologies are constantly improving. While this makes it more difficult for
Chapter 4, Case 3 Data Mining for terrorists anD innoCents 2
continued
terrorists and other criminals to exchange information, it also jeopardizes our privacy, on
the Internet and elsewhere, going forward. For instance, it may be necessary to monitor the
phone calls of all American citizens, and visiting foreigners, in order to uncover a terrorist
plot. Is this reason for worry? Are comparisons to Orwell’s 1984 appropriate or overblown?
The first video displays both the positive and negative results of new advances in tech-
nology. The first segment describes a program called the Dark Web Project developed by
a team at the University of Tucson that combs the Internet in search of militant leaders
and their followers. The program creates profiles based on word length, punctuation,
syntax, and content, and displays information about the personality type of an individual
graphically.
The plotting of information on a graph represents whether the user is violent or militant,
inexperienced and seeking advice, or an opinion leader holding sway over many more
people. Programs like this have been adopted by many intelligence agencies worldwide,
who incorporate it into their arsenal of terrorist surveillance technologies.
It’s unclear if this project i ...
In the modern-day climate, more and more industries have had to increase IT security
expenses to provide a trusted system of security to all client/company PII from unauthorized users. The massive spike in IT security spending was brought on by the recent cyber breach on Equifax, in which millions of clients’ PII was accessed and distributed by an unauthorized user infiltrating the system. Like the Equifax attack, so many of these attacks require user-interaction to be activated or spread, so organizations must be on the forefront of understanding the internal threats of their own employees can impose.
The paper emphasizes the human aspects of cyber incidents concerning protecting information and
technology assets by addressing behavioral analytics in cybersecurity for digital forensics applications.
The paper demonstrates the human vulnerabilities associated with information systems technologies and
components. This assessment is based on past literature assessments done in this area. This study also
includes analyses of various frameworks that have led to the adoption of behavioral analysis in digital
forensics. The study's findings indicate that behavioral evidence analysis should be included as part of the
digital forensics examination. The provision of standardized investigation methods and the inclusion of
human factors such as motives and behavioral tendencies are some of the factors attached to the use of
behavioral digital forensic frameworks. However, the study also appreciates the need for a more
generalizable digital forensic method.
The paper emphasizes the human aspects of cyber incidents concerning protecting information and
technology assets by addressing behavioral analytics in cybersecurity for digital forensics applications.
The paper demonstrates the human vulnerabilities associated with information systems technologies and
components. This assessment is based on past literature assessments done in this area. This study also
includes analyses of various frameworks that have led to the adoption of behavioral analysis in digital
forensics. The study's findings indicate that behavioral evidence analysis should be included as part of the
digital forensics examination. The provision of standardized investigation methods and the inclusion of
human factors such as motives and behavioral tendencies are some of the factors attached to the use of
behavioral digital forensic frameworks. However, the study also appreciates the need for a more
generalizable digital forensic method.
The paper emphasizes the human aspects of cyber incidents concerning protecting information and
technology assets by addressing behavioral analytics in cybersecurity for digital forensics applications.
The paper demonstrates the human vulnerabilities associated with information systems technologies and
components. This assessment is based on past literature assessments done in this area. This study also
includes analyses of various frameworks that have led to the adoption of behavioral analysis in digital
forensics. The study's findings indicate that behavioral evidence analysis should be included as part of the
digital forensics examination. The provision of standardized investigation methods and the inclusion of
human factors such as motives and behavioral tendencies are some of the factors attached to the use of
behavioral digital forensic frameworks. However, the study also appreciates the need for a more
generalizable digital forensic method.
Computer Forensics
Discussion 1
"Forensics Certifications" Please respond to the following:
· Determine whether or not you believe certifications in systems forensics are necessary and explain why you believe this to be the case. Compare and contrast certifications and on-the-job training and identify which you believe is more useful for a system forensics professional. Provide a rationale with your response.
· Suppose you are the hiring manager looking to hire a new system forensics specialist. Specify at least five (5) credentials you would expect an ample candidate to possess. Determine which of these credentials you believe to be the most important and provide a reason for your decision.
Discussion 2
"System Forensics Organizations" Please respond to the following:
· Use the Internet or the Library to research and select one (1) reputable system forensics organization. Provide a brief overview of the organization you chose, including what it provides for its members, and how one can join the organization. Indicate why, in your opinion, this particular organization would be the best choice for a system forensics professional to join and why you believe this way.
· Examine what you believe to be the most important reason for a systems forensic professional to be a member of a forensics organization and how this could further one’s career in the industry.
Cyber Security
Discussion 1
"Leading Through Effective Strategic Management" Please respond to the following:
· Propose three ways to ensure that cooperation occurs across security functions when developing a strategic plan. Select what you believe is the most effective way to promote collaboration and explain why.
· Explain what may happen if working cultures are overlooked when developing a strategy. Recommend one way to prevent working cultures from being overlooked.
Discussion 2
"Installing Security with System and Application Development" Please respond to the following:
· Provide three examples that demonstrate how security can be instilled within the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Provide two examples on what users may experience with software products if they are released with minimal security planning.
· Suggest three ways that application security can be monitored and evaluated for effectiveness. Choose what you believe to be the most effective way and discuss why.
Computer Security
Discussion 1
"Current Events and Future Trends" Please respond to the following:
· How can we create a national security culture where all are more cognizant of security threats and involved to help prevent potential incidents? How do we balance the need for this security culture with the rights guaranteed to us by our Bill of Rights?
Research Topics (Choose 1 Topic)
Terrorism
· Terrorism remains one of the major concerns in the wake of the 9-11 events. Research into terrorism as it pertains to homeland security is conducted by corporations like the RAND Corporation, which is.
PHISHING ATTACKS PROPOSAL 6
Phishing Attacks Proposal
Introduction and Problem Statement
Over the past years, one of the most challenging crimes that have been a serious threat to the internet security of all computer users has been identity theft. This is a lucrative crime whose roots spread across the world and are perpetrated by different individuals using sophisticated technology. Identity theft entails the act of stealing as well as utilizing the identity information of another person to commit crimes such as steal money, crucial personal information, or even destroy confidential data and information (Psannis & Gamagedara, 2017). One of the techniques that have been used to perpetrate identity theft is a phishing attack. A phishing attack refers to a type of crime associated with social engineering whose emergence, occurrence, and advancements are proving to be an enormous challenge for both key industry players as well as academic researchers (Lyashenko, 2015).
The main aim of carrying out phishing attacks is to steal crucial information that is sensitive to users such as online banking details, usernames, and even passwords. According to researchers, the number of phishing attacks is becoming a serious threat, and in other cases, phishing reports indicate that it is not only the organizations that are becoming victims of the phishing attacks but the number of attacks is on the rise, and the level of sophistication is also advancing day in day out (Doupe & Warner, 2018). Of importance is that the phishing attacks have evolved in terms of the approaches that are followed in penetrating computer users and violating their privacy.
Objectives
This research aims at studying the level of sophistication in which phishing attacks has advanced. In this regard, it seeks to determine how modern methods of phishing attacks are different from the traditional ones. Secondly, this research aims to explain the different current methods of carrying out phishing attacks. Thirdly, this research study aims at determining how these sophisticated methods of carrying out phishing attacks can be controlled.
Literature Review
Different researchers and professionals have explored the issue of modern phishing attacks and presented their work in the form of journals and articles of research. One amongst the journals is “Defending against phishing attacks: Taxonomy of methods, current issues, and future directions,” authored by Kostas Psannis, and Nalin Asanka Gamagedara (2017). In their research, they noted that phishing statistics indicate that there is a rise in the number of successful attacks that are being carried out against industries and critical institutions. Psannis and Gamagedara (2017) present this statistical information in the form of a pie chart showing the various domains that exist and how each one of them has been affected. Based on a report presented in the form of a pie chart by the team, domains that are worst hit by the crime includ ...
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There is a serious misalignment of interests between Application Security vulnerability assessment vendors and their customers. Vendors are incentivized to report everything they possible can, even issues that rarely matter. On the other hand, customers just want the vulnerability reports that are likely to get them hacked. Every finding beyond that is a waste of time, money, and energy, which is precisely what’s happening every day.
How to Determine Your Attack Surface in the Healthcare SectorJeremiah Grossman
Do you know what an asset inventory is, why it's important, and how it can protect you from cybersecurity vulnerabilities?
In this webinar, you can expect to learn:
- How to prepare yourself and your staff against cybersecurity threats
- What an asset inventory is and why it's the next big thing in information security
- How to identify all your company's Internet-connected assets and which need to be defended
- Why keeping an up-to-date asset inventory is important
- How to obtain your own attack surface map
What the Kidnapping & Ransom Economy Teaches Us About RansomwareJeremiah Grossman
Ransomware is center stage, as campaigns are practically guaranteed financial gain. Cyber-criminals profit hundreds of millions of dollars by selling our data back to us. If you look closely, the ransomware economic dynamics closely follow the real-world kidnapping and ransom industry. We’ll explore the eerie similarities, where ransomware is headed, and strategies we can bring to the fight.
What the Kidnapping & Ransom Economy Teaches Us About RansomwareJeremiah Grossman
Ransomware is center stage, as campaigns are practically guaranteed financial gain. Cyber-criminals profit hundreds of millions of dollars by selling our data back to us. If you look closely, the ransomware economic dynamics closely follow the real-world kidnapping and ransom industry. We’ll explore the eerie similarities, where ransomware is headed, and strategies we can bring to the fight.
In the past two decades of tech booms, busts, and bubbles, two things have not changed - hackers are still nding ways to breach security measures in place, and the endpoint remains the primary target. And now, with cloud and mobile computing, endpoint devices have become the new enterprise security perimeter, so there is even more pressure to lock them down.
Companies are deploying piles of software on the endpoint to secure it - antivirus, anti- malware, desktop rewalls, intrusion detection, vulnerability management, web ltering, anti-spam, and the list goes on. Yet with all of the solutions in place, high pro le companies are still being breached. The recent attacks on large retail and hospitality organizations are prime examples, where hackers successfully used credit-card-stealing-malware targeting payment servers to collect customer credit card information.
Ransomware is Here: Fundamentals Everyone Needs to KnowJeremiah Grossman
If you’re an IT professional, you probably know at least the basics of ransomware. Instead of using malware or an exploit to exfiltrate PII from an enterprise, bad actors instead find valuable data and encrypt it. Unless you happen to have an NSA-caliber data center at your disposal to break the encryption, you must pay your attacker in cold, hard bitcoins—or else wave goodbye to your PII. Those assumptions aren’t wrong, but they also don’t tell the whole picture.
During this event we’ll discuss topics such as:
Why Ransomware is Exploding
The growth of ransomware, as opposed to garden-variety malware, is enormous. Hackers have found that they can directly monetize the data they encrypt, which eliminates the time-consuming process of selling stolen data on the Darknet. In addition, the use of ransomware requires little in the way of technical skill—because attackers don’t need to get root on a victim’s machine.
Who the Real Targets Are
Two years ago, the most newsworthy victims of ransomware were various police departments. This year, everyone is buzzing about hospitals. Is this a deliberate pattern? Probably not. Enterprises are so ill-prepared for ransomware that attackers have a green field to wreak havoc. Until the industry shapes up, bad actors will target ransomware indiscriminately.
Where Ransomware Stumbles
Although ransomware is nearly impossible to dislodge when employed correctly, you may be surprised to find that not all bad actors have the skill to do it. Even if ransomware targets your network, you may learn that your attackers have used extremely weak encryption—or that they’ve encrypted files that are entirely non-critical.
As far as ransomware is concerned, forewarned is forearmed. Once you know how attackers deliver ransomware, who they’re likely to attack, and the weaknesses in the ransomware deployment model, you’ll be able to understand how to protect your enterprise.
This year WhiteHat SecurityTM celebrates its fteenth anniversary, and the eleventh year that we have produced the Web Applications Security Statistics Report. The stats shared in this report are based on the aggregation of all the scanning and remediation data obtained from applications that used the WhiteHat SentinelTM service for application security testing in 2015. As an early pioneer in the Application Security Market, WhiteHat has a large and unique collection of data to work with.
Where Flow Charts Don’t Go -- Website Security Statistics Report (2015)Jeremiah Grossman
WhiteHat Security’s Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address in order to conduct business online safely.
Website security is an ever-moving target. New website launches are common, new code is released constantly, new web technologies are created and adopted every day; as a result, new attack techniques are frequently disclosed that can put every online business at risk. In order to stay protected, enterprises must receive timely information about how they
can most efficiently defend their websites, gain visibility into
the performance of their security programs, and learn how they compare with their industry peers. Obtaining these insights
is crucial in order to stay ahead and truly improve enterprise website security.
To help, WhiteHat Security has been publishing its Website Security Statistics Report since 2006. This report is the only one that focuses exclusively on unknown vulnerabilities in custom web applications, code that is unique to an organization, and found in real-world websites. The underlying data is hundreds of terabytes in size, comprises vulnerability assessment results from tens of thousands of websites across hundreds of the most well- known organizations, and collectively represents the largest and most accurate picture of website security available. Inside this report is information about the most prevalent vulnerabilities, how many get fixed, how long the fixes can take on average, and how every application security program may measurably improve. The report is organized by industry, and is accompanied by WhiteHat Security’s expert analysis and recommendations.
No More Snake Oil: Why InfoSec Needs Security GuaranteesJeremiah Grossman
Ever notice how everything in InfoSec is sold “as is”? No guarantees, no warrantees, no return policies. For some reason in InfoSec, providing customers with a form of financial coverage for their investment is seen as gimmicky, but the tides and times are changing. This talk discusses use cases on why guarantees are a must have and how guarantees benefit customers as well as InfoSec as a whole.
In this report, we put this area of application security understanding to the test by measuring how various web programming languages and development frameworks actually perform in the field. To which classes of attack are they most prone, how often and for how long; and, how do they fare against popular alternatives? Is it really true that the most popular modern languages and frameworks yield similar results in production websites?
By analyzing the vulnerability assessment results of more than 30,000 websites under management with WhiteHat Sentinel, we begin to answer these questions. These answers may enable the application security community to ask better and deeper questions, which will eventually lead to more secure websites. Organizations deploying these technologies can have a closer look at particularly risk-prone areas. Software vendors may focus on areas that are found to be lacking. Developers can increase their familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of their technology stack. All of this is vitally important because security must be baked into development frameworks and must be virtually transparent. Only then will application security progress be made.
In this report, we put this area of application security understanding to the test by measuring how various web programming languages and development frameworks actually perform in the field. To which classes of attack are they most prone, how often and for how long; and, how do they fare against popular alternatives? Is it really true that the most popular modern languages and frameworks yield similar results in production websites?
By analyzing the vulnerability assessment results of more than 30,000 websites under management with WhiteHat Sentinel, we begin to answer these questions. These answers may enable the application security community to ask better and deeper questions, which will eventually lead to more secure websites. Organizations deploying these technologies can have a closer look at particularly risk-prone areas. Software vendors may focus on areas that are found to be lacking. Developers can increase their familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of their technology stack. All of this is vitally important because security must be baked into development frameworks and must be virtually transparent. Only then will application security progress be made.
http://blackhat.com/us-13/briefings.html#Grossman
Online advertising networks can be a web hacker’s best friend. For mere pennies per thousand impressions (that means browsers) there are service providers who allow you to broadly distribute arbitrary javascript -- even malicious javascript! You are SUPPOSED to use this “feature” to show ads, to track users, and get clicks, but that doesn’t mean you have to abide. Absolutely nothing prevents spending $10, $100, or more to create a massive javascript-driven browser botnet instantly. The real-world power is spooky cool. We know, because we tested it… in-the-wild.
With a few lines of HTML5 and javascript code we’ll demonstrate just how you can easily commandeer browsers to perform DDoS attacks, participate in email spam campaigns, crack hashes and even help brute-force passwords. Put simply, instruct browsers to make HTTP requests they didn’t intend, even something as well-known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. With CSRF, no zero-days or malware is required. Oh, and there is no patch. The Web is supposed to work this way. Also nice, when the user leaves the page, our code vanishes. No traces. No tracks.
Before leveraging advertising networks, the reason this attack scenario didn’t worry many people is because it has always been difficult to scale up, which is to say, simultaneously control enough browsers (aka botnets) to reach critical mass. Previously, web hackers tried poisoning search engine results, phishing users via email, link spamming Facebook, Twitter and instant messages, Cross-Site Scripting attacks, publishing rigged open proxies, and malicious browser plugins. While all useful methods in certain scenarios, they lack simplicity, invisibility, and most importantly -- scale. That’s what we want! At a moment’s notice, we will show how it is possible to run javascript on an impressively large number of browsers all at once and no one will be the wiser. Today this is possible, and practical.
WhiteHat Security’s Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address in order to conduct business online safely.
Website security is an ever-moving target. New website launches are common, new code is released constantly, new Web technologies are created and adopted every day; as a result, new attack techniques are frequently disclosed that can put every online business at risk. In order to stay protected, enterprises must receive timely information about how they can most efficiently defend their websites, gain visibility into the performance of their security programs, and learn how they compare with their industry peers. Obtaining these insights is crucial in order to stay ahead and truly improve enterprise website security.
To help, WhiteHat Security has been publishing its Website Security Statistics Report since 2006. This report is the only one that focuses exclusively on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code that is unique to an organization, and found in real-world websites. The underlying data is hundreds of terabytes in size, comprises vulnerability assessment results from tens of thousands of websites across hundreds of the most well-known organizations, and collectively represents the largest and most accurate picture of website security available. Inside this report is information about the most prevalent vulnerabilities, how many get fixed, how long the fixes can take on average, and how every application security program may measurably improve. The report is organized by industry, and is accompanied by WhiteHat Security’s expert analysis and recommendations.
Through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, WhiteHat Sentinel, WhiteHat Security is uniquely positioned to deliver the depth of knowledge that organizations require to protect their brands, attain compliance, and avert costly breaches.
http://blog.whitehatsec.com/top-ten-web-hacking-techniques-of-2012/
Recorded Webinar: https://www.whitehatsec.com/webinar/whitehat_webinar_march2713.html
Every year the security community produces a stunning amount of new Web hacking techniques that are published in various white papers, blog posts, magazine articles, mailing list emails, conference presentations, etc. Within the thousands of pages are the latest ways to attack websites, Web browsers, Web proxies, and their mobile platform equivilents. Beyond individual vulnerabilities with CVE numbers or system compromises, here we are solely focused on new and creative methods of Web-based attack. Now it its seventh year, The Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques list encourages information sharing, provides a centralized knowledge-base, and recognizes researchers who contribute excellent work. Past Top Tens and the number of new attack techniques discovered in each year:
WhiteHat Security, the Web security company, today released the twelfth installment of the WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report. The report reviewed serious vulnerabilities* in websites during the 2011 calendar year, examining the severity and duration of the most critical vulnerabilities from 7,000 websites across major vertical markets. Among the findings in the report, WhiteHat research suggests that the average number of serious vulnerabilities found per website per year in 2011 was 79, a substantial reduction from 230 in 2010 and down from 1,111 in 2007. Despite the significant improvement in the state of website security, organizational challenges in creating security programs that balance breadth of coverage and depth of testing leave large-scale attack surfaces or small, but very high-risk vulnerabilities open to attackers.
The report examined data from more than 7,000 websites across over 500 organizations that are continually assessed for vulnerabilities by WhiteHat Security’s family of Sentinel Services. This process provides a real-world look at website security across a range of vertical markets, including findings from the energy and non-profit verticals for the first time this year. The metrics provided serve as a foundation for improving enterprise application security online.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
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:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
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.
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/
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.
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
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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.