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Slides from Simson Garfinkel's "Cybersecurity Mess" talk, explaining why we won't make progress on computer security until we solve several other important items.
Presented April 25, 2012 to the MIT Industrial Liaison Program.
We are delighted to have Gary Miliefsky on our second Hacker Hotshot of 2013! Gary is the Editor of Cyber Defense Magazine, which he recently founded after years of being a cover story author and regular contributor to Hakin9 Magazine. In partnership with UMASS, he started the Cyber Defense Test Labs to perform independent lab reviews of next generation information security products. Gary is also the founder of NetClarity, Inc., which is the world's first next generation agentless, non-inline network access control (NAC) and bring your own device (BYOD) management appliances vendor based on a patented technology which he invented.
Slides from Simson Garfinkel's "Cybersecurity Mess" talk, explaining why we won't make progress on computer security until we solve several other important items.
Presented April 25, 2012 to the MIT Industrial Liaison Program.
We are delighted to have Gary Miliefsky on our second Hacker Hotshot of 2013! Gary is the Editor of Cyber Defense Magazine, which he recently founded after years of being a cover story author and regular contributor to Hakin9 Magazine. In partnership with UMASS, he started the Cyber Defense Test Labs to perform independent lab reviews of next generation information security products. Gary is also the founder of NetClarity, Inc., which is the world's first next generation agentless, non-inline network access control (NAC) and bring your own device (BYOD) management appliances vendor based on a patented technology which he invented.
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Open Source Intelligence Gathering (OSINT) is growing in popularity among attackers and defenders alike. When an attacker comes knocking on your network's front door, the warning lights go off in multiple systems (IDS, IPS, SIEM, WAF). More sophisticated attackers, however, spend considerable time gathering information using tools and techniques that never touch any of your systems. As a result, these attackers are able to execute their attacks and make off with proprietary data before you even know they are there. This presentation provides an introduction to many OSINT tools and techniques, as well as methods you can use to minimize your exposure.
"How To Defeat Advanced Malware: New Tools for Protection and Forensics" is a FREE continuing education class that has been designed specifically for CIO's, CTO's, CISO's and senior executives who work within the financial industry and are responsible for their company's endpoint protection.
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An Introduction To IT Security And Privacy for Librarians and LibrariesBlake Carver
An hour long presentation I gave for LYRASIS. It introduces many topics in security and privacy on the internet and computers and any other type of device with an ip address. IOT Internet of things, browsers, portable devices and more.
Social Networking Security For OCRI - Scott Wright - Condensed July 9, 2009Scott Wright
This keynote was presented by Scott Wright on June 19, 2009 to the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation. It provides a quick view of some of the major risks from using Social Networking Tools, and some tips for how to reduce those risks through security awareness.
This course focuses on SCADA/ ICS systems. The title of this course is: Advanced Threat Detection in ICS – SCADA Environments.
In this course we take a look at the effectiveness of honeypots within a SCADA/ ICS context. A honeypot typically consists of data, or a network site that appears to be part of the organization’s network, but is actually isolated and monitored, and which seems to contain information or a resource of value to attackers.
Many security breaches we saw in the past few years and how it affect the number of businesses it include large and small businesses. We will study what is breach and how it will effect on our business and what are the main causes of it. Why social media account is harm for us and how the largest organizations got breached and how would we stop to get breach our data. Our main target Is related to business it could be small or large business. We will discuss that how companies got lost their reputation because of data breach and how much companies got loss of money it include the organization that we all are known about it like Facebook.
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Did you know that today's cyber threat landscape costs companies BILLIONS in damages each year?
We want to help protect your company, employees and customers from the rising threat landscape!
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• The state of cybersecurity and the threat landscape
• How a threat-focused approach is changing the ability to detect and respond to breaches
• How to develop a security game plan around a proven process
• How to automatically defend your network with Cisco’s Advanced Malware Protection (AMP)
http://www.utgsolutions.com/solutions/security-compliance
Slides from a workshop titled Data Privacy for Activists on January 29th, 2017 for the Data Privacy PDX Meetup group.
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- metadata fingerprinting
- VPN use
- Encrypted Email
The Internet is on fire – don't just stand there, grab a bucket!Frode Hommedal
The Internet is on fire, and every connected device and user is at risk. How did we get here? By not seeing the dangers ahead, by being lazy and by not understanding the threats we are facing and the consequences of failing at building secure and robust infrastructure. This needs to change, and you need to contribute.
If I take a letter, lock it in a safe, hide the safe somewhere in New York, then tell you to read the letter, that’s not security. That’s obscurity. On the other hand, if I take a letter and lock it in a safe, and then give you the safe along with the design specifications and a hundred identical safes with their combinations so that the world’s best safecrackers can study it and you still can’t open the safe, that’s security.
Jerod Brennen - What You Need to Know About OSINTcentralohioissa
Open Source Intelligence Gathering (OSINT) is growing in popularity among attackers and defenders alike. When an attacker comes knocking on your network's front door, the warning lights go off in multiple systems (IDS, IPS, SIEM, WAF). More sophisticated attackers, however, spend considerable time gathering information using tools and techniques that never touch any of your systems. As a result, these attackers are able to execute their attacks and make off with proprietary data before you even know they are there. This presentation provides an introduction to many OSINT tools and techniques, as well as methods you can use to minimize your exposure.
"How To Defeat Advanced Malware: New Tools for Protection and Forensics" is a FREE continuing education class that has been designed specifically for CIO's, CTO's, CISO's and senior executives who work within the financial industry and are responsible for their company's endpoint protection.
How To Protect Your Website From Bot Attacks is a one-hour continuing education course. After successfully completing the course and final exam, you will be awarded a certificate of completion that you can use towards fulfilling your continuing education requirements.
KEYNOTE ComfyconAU 2020: disclose.io Vulnerability disclosure and Safe Harbor...Casey Ellis
In this keynote I’ll run through the past/present/future of the vulnerability disclosure, and give a run-through of disclose.io: an open-source and vendor-agnostic initiative to make conversations between builders and breakers safe, standardized, and simple. I’ll close with a Call To Action for all participants with simple ways to help and get involved.
An Introduction To IT Security And Privacy for Librarians and LibrariesBlake Carver
An hour long presentation I gave for LYRASIS. It introduces many topics in security and privacy on the internet and computers and any other type of device with an ip address. IOT Internet of things, browsers, portable devices and more.
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This keynote was presented by Scott Wright on June 19, 2009 to the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation. It provides a quick view of some of the major risks from using Social Networking Tools, and some tips for how to reduce those risks through security awareness.
This course focuses on SCADA/ ICS systems. The title of this course is: Advanced Threat Detection in ICS – SCADA Environments.
In this course we take a look at the effectiveness of honeypots within a SCADA/ ICS context. A honeypot typically consists of data, or a network site that appears to be part of the organization’s network, but is actually isolated and monitored, and which seems to contain information or a resource of value to attackers.
Many security breaches we saw in the past few years and how it affect the number of businesses it include large and small businesses. We will study what is breach and how it will effect on our business and what are the main causes of it. Why social media account is harm for us and how the largest organizations got breached and how would we stop to get breach our data. Our main target Is related to business it could be small or large business. We will discuss that how companies got lost their reputation because of data breach and how much companies got loss of money it include the organization that we all are known about it like Facebook.
↓↓↓↓ Read More:
Watch my videos on snack here: --> --> http://sck.io/x-B1f0Iy
@ Kindly Follow my Instagram Page to discuss about your mental health problems-
-----> https://instagram.com/mentality_streak?utm_medium=copy_link
@ Appreciate my work:
-----> behance.net/burhanahmed1
Thank-you !
Did you know that today's cyber threat landscape costs companies BILLIONS in damages each year?
We want to help protect your company, employees and customers from the rising threat landscape!
This presentation includes:
• The state of cybersecurity and the threat landscape
• How a threat-focused approach is changing the ability to detect and respond to breaches
• How to develop a security game plan around a proven process
• How to automatically defend your network with Cisco’s Advanced Malware Protection (AMP)
http://www.utgsolutions.com/solutions/security-compliance
Slides from a workshop titled Data Privacy for Activists on January 29th, 2017 for the Data Privacy PDX Meetup group.
Workshop included presentation and live demos of:
- leaked credentials
- metadata fingerprinting
- VPN use
- Encrypted Email
The Internet is on fire – don't just stand there, grab a bucket!Frode Hommedal
The Internet is on fire, and every connected device and user is at risk. How did we get here? By not seeing the dangers ahead, by being lazy and by not understanding the threats we are facing and the consequences of failing at building secure and robust infrastructure. This needs to change, and you need to contribute.
If I take a letter, lock it in a safe, hide the safe somewhere in New York, then tell you to read the letter, that’s not security. That’s obscurity. On the other hand, if I take a letter and lock it in a safe, and then give you the safe along with the design specifications and a hundred identical safes with their combinations so that the world’s best safecrackers can study it and you still can’t open the safe, that’s security.
rovide 34 paragraphs that define how the IT security landscape has evo.docxacarolyn
rovide 3–4 paragraphs that define how the IT security landscape has evolved over the last 10 years and how today\'s current technology works to keep environments secure. Feel free to mention how some of the tools used to protect your system include the following: Intrusion detection and prevention systems Firewalls Antivirus software Other software to eliminate malware and other such intrusive programs
Solution
Ten years ago .almost all threats were malware programs (viruses, worms, and Trojans) written by adolescent pranksters. Even though some malware programs did real harm, such as formatting disks or erasing data files, most simply annoyed people. There were only few professional and even state-sponsored hackers, but they weren\'t the norm.
Now,almost all malware is created to either steal money or corporate secrets.Malware has gone from innocuous, funny viruses and worms to identity-stealing programs and ransomware.
Due to this,there has been a lot of improvement in breach programs that help prevent such malware.
Once antivirus scanners were our main tool for breach detection. Now, an entirely new generation of companies and products have been developed to detect when somebody\'s doing something malicious, even if that something malicious is being done by a legitimate user.Event monitoring systems are improving. Many companies are now storing and analyzing billions of events a day, using huge disk storage arrays that a short time ago would have stored the world\'s entire collection of digital content.
Intrusion detection has moved beyond detecting simple malicious activity to detecting anomalous events that are out of character for a company and its employees. Connections to known, questionable networks are tracked and reported like the antivirus detections of yesteryear. Data leak protection (DLP) has become big business.Multifactor authentication has become very much common in every company in the past ten years.Also,Encryption of data has been made default.Default encryption will mean that when a computing device is stolen, no longer will it turn into a data compromise that must be reported to the authorities (and the media). The bad guys and unauthorized parties will be listening into our private conversations and transactions much less.
Unfortunately, all these defense improvements haven\'t yet translated into a safer computing environment. There are far more malicious attacks today than there were 10 years ago. \"Improvements\" in cyber crime have so far completely overwhelmed the advances in cyber security defense.
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1. Fighting the Intruder -- Securing your Business
By Bob Cherry
Years ago, when I worked on and around secure projects, there was extremely tight security. Breeches of any kind were
not to be tolerated. To achieve this, there was no connectivity to the outside world via Internet, dial up modems, etc.
Any physical media (floppies and tape were the media of the day) that went into the building never went out. You
could bring patches and such into the building but the media stayed there when you left. It would either be archived or
shredded. There were no exceptions. You showed your purse and briefcases as you entered and left the facility.
Sometimes you were asked to empty your pockets. It was routine. It was secure. Attacks from the outside world just
didn't happen. Security was so tight that at one facility I worked at, I had to have blood test and FBI check EVERY
DAY before I could even enter the central facility.
Today when we talk about security, we have a new paradigm where there is an "acceptable" level of loss of secret data
and information. China has made a huge use of this as they design their new J-20 series of fighter jets using stolen
American technology. There is so much that their planes virtually look like ours inside and out. So, how does this
happen? Our security paradigm is severely broken. In reality, there is little security -- just enough to make it difficult
but, certainly not impossible. Unfriendly foreign governments and foreign hackers are making an art & science out of
penetrating American systems. It's their job to get in, analyze, and hide their footsteps as they infiltrate system after
system after system. They make millions of dollars in the process. It is a worthwhile endeavor for them.
First of all, the new mindset is that we need to have Internet access at secure facilities for some reason. I'm not sure
what those reasons are but, lets look at what that really means. Our electric grids across the nation are exposed. Our
nuclear power plants are exposed. Our defense engineering is exposed. Our defensive systems are exposed. Our
medical records are exposed. Our financial records and information is exposed. Our social security, credit card and
banking records are exposed. And the list goes on and on. Our nation's security looks more like a sieve than a brick
wall. A lot of what is in place was put in with a small budget and a lack of serious concern regarding security.
Basically, to the bean counters, security cost too much. Feel-good security was enough.
So, how much is an "acceptable" risk? Credit card companies spend billions of dollars a year on fraud. Target discount
stores realized that all customer credit card information was compromised. I don't know how many times VISA has
issued me new cards due to card information theft from somewhere. Foreign governments use our "secret" technology.
Russian hackers are already into much of our infrastructure. China has even accessed some of our critical satellites. The
problem is, we don't really know how bad we've been infiltrated. We do know that we have been and there are
probably unauthorized people in our national infrastructure right now. Almost every web site in the world is under
attack. The little ones contain user-names, passwords and email addresses. This information, once in the wrong hands,
can then be used to access bigger and better targets like banks. The reason is that most public users use the same user-
name and password on all the systems they use. The same one they use on Facebook is what they use for managing
their bank or retirement accounts. One security firm states that over 30% of all home computers are already
compromised. How many web sites containing personal information are? Sadly, the answer is: Most!
If twenty contract agencies are working together on a top secret military program and each allows a small amount of
information (data) to escape is that trivial? If the data by itself is pretty much worthless, then standing alone, then yes,
it is. But, if the attacker is an unfriendly foreign government that only needed that one piece of the puzzle to build a
major threat to our nation, then what is the value? It is no longer trivial. If that unfriendly government has actually
acquired many pieces from all of those 20 contractors and has now rendered a multi-billion dollar project obsolete
before it gets off the ground what was the value of that small loss of information? (see links below) This is the reason
you cannot define what a single piece of lost information is worth. This is why there cannot be an "acceptable" level of
risk. Any loss of top-secret information must be considered a substantial loss of unknown value.
We plan security like a box full of rules. Hackers don't follow our rules. They don't recognize our box boundaries. So
we assume that our methods are secure and, as we discover break-ins, we reactively respond to those to patch the leak.
How much data and information got out before we patched is often not known. It seems that every few days we read
2. about identity theft on a massive scale. This is what happens with a reactive model to security that assumes some level
of risk is acceptable. Rarely do banks and businesses publicize that they were compromised. Its bad for business. So
they patch the leak, hide it and pay the damage and continue doing things as they always have. Loss of private
information has become a cost of doing business. An acceptable unknown cost. That is a dangerous philosophy to run a
business by.
In my office, the primary system with client information, accounting, passwords, software keys, and other vital
information is NOT on the Internet. It isn't even connected. The Linux system sits in a corner where it has been
churning away for almost 12 years. When I need something off of it, I go to the system and work from there. If I need
to transfer anything to/from it, I use a USB flash memory stick. The point being is that no hacker is going to get into the
database full of artists names, addresses, phone numbers and their music business contact information. The system gets
regular backups that are stored in the bank safety deposit box. Backups consist of an exact clone image of the drive. In
this manner, if the drive fails, I simply install the backup, reboot and I'm up. Then I just bring over the database image
from the real-time backup drive, apply the redo logs and I'm back.
Today, we use routers, access control lists, filters and so on to secure out business environments. But, our comfort level
isn't very high considering that there are router patches and updates almost daily. Every Tuesday, Microsoft puts out
many fixes to their array of Windows products. Vendors are constantly putting out updates to their software products.
My web site engine has at least a few security updates every week. Every one was probably the result of someone
detecting an attack. These fixes come AFTER an attack has already occurred.
We literally spend a ton of money and time securing our systems just so that we can have the convenience of having
those systems on the Internet. We spend a lot of time and resources keeping our systems up to date to try and keep them
secure. Is it really worth it? Does every system require Internet connectivity? Seriously, no. Why does accounting or
human resources need Internet access? As a rule, they don't. Sure, it may be necessary to have one or two workstations
that can connect but, certainly not all of them. The databases of personal information certainly do not require it.
Anti-virus systems are critical as are rootkit scans, and more. With new virus variants coming out daily, it is amazing
that there are still anti-virus vendors who only put out updates once a week. Systems using those products are
unprotected until the weekly update. Other better products may put out eight updates a day! Those are the products to
seriously consider. I run three layers of protection on my Internet connected systems and they are inside a router and a
firewall. I was compromised a few years back even with all that. Anti-virus is not a cure-all.
There is no such thing as a 100% safe operating system -- especially after you install a lot of third-party applications.
Windows is always being compromised. Mac OS/X has been cracked and Linux and BSD systems have also. While
some are more vulnerable than others, there is no such thing as a totally secure OS. Most attacks happen at the
application layer and may third party software vendors don't put a lot of emphasis on security. Network games, email
applications, web browsers, etc. are all examples of applications that expose the system to the outside world that
communicate with.
Rather than preventing an incident, we react to incidents that already happened. That is the new model. Because we
allow risk, we need to react to it. If we eliminate the risk, then there is nothing to react to. Note I didn't say to be
proactive. I said to eliminate it. There is a distinct difference. To prevent, one must eliminate all methods of outside
intrusion and, you do that by not just closing the door but, by removing the door all together. If you connect to the
outside, the outside connects to you. It's that simple.
Total isolation is fine for a single installation site but, what happens when you have facilities scattered all over the
place -- even around the world? Again, the Internet is a low-cost, available yet insecure method of interconnection.
TCP/IP, by its very design is insecure. Using the Internet is a far cry cheaper than laying a dedicated OC3 or higher
speed dedicated trunk between sites. As is common knowledge today, even the best laid plans of man are eventually
cracked. It's the law of unintended consequences. Security is only as strong as the weakest link and to add to this
problem, it is also fluid in its dynamics. What was the weakest link an hour ago, may not be the weakest link now. The
environment changes constantly. What attack we dealt with yesterday has been replaced by an entirely new concept
3. today. This leads to the question: What is the cost of security? It was this question that ultimately created the answer:
There is a certain amount of loss that is acceptable. But is it really? I believe the answer to be flawed.
When considering security, one must also consider the real need for outside connectivity. Do those different facilities
really need to be all over the country and then openly interconnected? Would it be more secure to relocate some of
them to a single facility and eliminate the interconnection? What systems can be totally isolated from all outside
connections and just exist on their own private network internally? It is a fact that systems connected to the Internet
will incur an intrusion at some point. It isn't a matter of if, but rather, when. When it ultimately does happen, what will
be the real value of that data loss? That loss can be financial, business, legal and most importantly, a matter of trust
with your customers and users. If word got out that all your web site users private data was compromised, how would
that impact your web business now and in the future?
A few years back, I received a call from a big local real-estate office. They had a virus that managed to infect every
system in their office and they couldn't work anymore. Windows were popping up all over the place on every PC in
their office. The office relied on build-in Windows security and that was it. No firewall. No anti-virus software.
Nothing. It required the better part of a day to disinfect their computers and network, configure their router, install a
firewall and put anti-virus software on all their systems. Their office was basically down during this time. How much
of their client information was compromised remains unknown but, their server was breached and most of the log files
deleted. It had a simple password that was the same for the owner's PC which was easily guessable and, it was. They
said they couldn't afford anti-virus software. After their attack, they ultimately decided they couldn't afford to be
without it. It was an expensive and hard lesson.
I know today's systems are no where near as secure as the systems I worked on in the 1980s because in those days many
long years ago, there was no outside connectivity and, there was no acceptable measure of loss. It's something to think
about in today's exploding network of interconnected businesses. It isn't a trivial issue today. Businesses can be held
liable for private data getting out. How good is your security really?
Now, here's the scary part. Virtually every web site in the world gets hit by attacks every day. If the top secret
government sites with all kinds of layered network security using every means available is getting compromised,
chances are your small business or even medium business site has also been compromised. Without security
monitoring, tracking, logs and alerts in place, you probably have no way of even knowing whether you've been violated
or not. Most have. A great deal of email spam points to sites that have been compromised and are used as the hyperlink
target of the spam or virus attack. Quite often, if you look at the links, they point to a business web site that has
obviously been compromised and the attacker has placed their infected payload on the unsuspecting website. Hundreds
of these different E-mails go out daily.
Have you really investigated if your site has been hit or not? Do your logs ever show a URL that had embedded SQL in
them? How often do your check your error logs and access logs? Do you even check them? Has email with your return
address domain been sent out to those on your subscription list? Are your site databases encrypted? The vast majority
are not. Current estimates indicate that nearly 85% of all web sites have been hacked. If you sincerely believe yours
hasn't been and you have not implemented any security, you're probably fooling yourself. If word got out that your site
had been hacked, how would it impact your business? We are in a new Internet mine field and unless you are very
careful, you may already have undesirable information leakage.
Additional Reading:
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FBI: A Chinese Hacker Stole Massive Amounts Of Intel On 32 US Military Projects