A variety of methods exist for auditing user activity in UNIX and Linux environments. This whitepaper looks at the 5 most popular methods for auditing. Each method is described, along with actionable tips for how to make the best use of each method. In addition, guidance is provided to show what type of auditing each method is best suited for.
ObserveIT Brochure - Like a Security Camera on your ServersObserveIT
ObserveIT acts like a security camera on your servers, generating video recording and text audit logs of every action the user performs. ObserveIT captures all activity, even for applications that do not produce their own internal logs. Every action performed by remote vendors, developers, sysadmins and business users is tied to a video recording, providing bulletproof forensic evidence. ObserveIT is the deal solution for 3rd Party Vendor
Monitoring and PCI/HIPAA/SOX/ISO Compliance Accountability, with a simple and direct solution for PCI Requirements #8, #10 and #12.
This document discusses how to properly implement a new SELinux policy for a custom system service called BBQ on Android. It describes labeling the new service and its files with custom types, writing rules to allow the service's necessary permissions, and including the new policy files in the build. The key steps are to create a new UID, label the service and related objects, write rules for the service in a new .te file, and declare the new policy files to be included in the build. Following these steps allows properly confining the new service within the SELinux environment.
The SElinux Notebook :the foundations - Vol 1Eliel Prado
This document provides copyright information and revision history for "The SELinux Notebook - The Foundations". It contains information on the author, logo designer, and abbreviations used. The document provides an index of contents for the notebook.
Joanna Rutkowska Subverting Vista Kernelguestf1a032
The document discusses techniques for subverting the Windows Vista kernel protection mechanisms and loading unsigned code. It describes:
1) Forcing kernel drivers to page out to the pagefile by allocating large amounts of memory, then modifying the paged out code in the pagefile to inject shellcode without requiring a signature.
2) The concept of an undetectable "Blue Pill" malware that could install itself on-the-fly by exploiting AMD64 SVM virtualization extensions to move the operating system into a virtual machine controlled by a thin hypervisor.
3) Challenges of handling nested virtual machines to prevent detection when the system is already compromised by "Blue Pill" malware.
OSMC 2009 | Windows monitoring - Going where no man has gone before... by Mic...NETWAYS
You have just spent 3 hours fixing the up monitoring of the multiport memory on the 11/780s making that the last node of the Vax beowulf cluster when the boss comes blustering in with his usual nonsense. "The mail is not working" he blurts out as if you would be interested. "Well what did I tell you" you retort slyly "thats what happens when you buy /windows servers/."
As you crawl out from the service hatch, to see what the boss is on about, you notice a faint burning smell and, to your great satisfaction, that the annoying blinking red error light has finally stopped on the exchange server...
Maybe, just maybe you think it is time to change all this?
This workshop will give you a hands-on introduction on how to use NSClient++ to monitor your windows servers from Nagios (or whatever monitoring solution you prefer). We will start off by installing NSClient++ so the only prerequisite is a w32-based laptop (or quite possibly a virtual machine running on your local beowulf cluster). After installing NSClient++ we will learn how to use it to monitor some common things via NRPE (and if there is interest NSCA). I will also go over the security implications to using NSClient++ and what you can do to keep your windows machines secure.
This document summarizes the Linux audit system and proposes improvements. It begins with an overview of auditd and how audit messages are generated and processed in the kernel. Issues with auditd's performance, output format, and filtering are discussed. An alternative approach is proposed that uses libmnl for netlink handling, groups related audit messages into JSON objects, applies Lua-based filtering, and supports multiple output types like ZeroMQ and syslog. Benchmark results show this rewrite reduces CPU usage compared to auditd. The document advocates for continued abstraction and integration of additional data sources while avoiding feature creep.
Droidcon it 2015: Android Lollipop for EnterpriseConsulthinkspa
Android Lollipop introduced several new security features for enterprise mobile device management including enhanced SELinux policies, Smart Lock, Device Protection, the Device Administration API, and Managed Profiles. It also improved data encryption with faster encryption of only used blocks and support for encryption without password. These features help provide a more secure environment for enterprise mobility.
ObserveIT Brochure - Like a Security Camera on your ServersObserveIT
ObserveIT acts like a security camera on your servers, generating video recording and text audit logs of every action the user performs. ObserveIT captures all activity, even for applications that do not produce their own internal logs. Every action performed by remote vendors, developers, sysadmins and business users is tied to a video recording, providing bulletproof forensic evidence. ObserveIT is the deal solution for 3rd Party Vendor
Monitoring and PCI/HIPAA/SOX/ISO Compliance Accountability, with a simple and direct solution for PCI Requirements #8, #10 and #12.
This document discusses how to properly implement a new SELinux policy for a custom system service called BBQ on Android. It describes labeling the new service and its files with custom types, writing rules to allow the service's necessary permissions, and including the new policy files in the build. The key steps are to create a new UID, label the service and related objects, write rules for the service in a new .te file, and declare the new policy files to be included in the build. Following these steps allows properly confining the new service within the SELinux environment.
The SElinux Notebook :the foundations - Vol 1Eliel Prado
This document provides copyright information and revision history for "The SELinux Notebook - The Foundations". It contains information on the author, logo designer, and abbreviations used. The document provides an index of contents for the notebook.
Joanna Rutkowska Subverting Vista Kernelguestf1a032
The document discusses techniques for subverting the Windows Vista kernel protection mechanisms and loading unsigned code. It describes:
1) Forcing kernel drivers to page out to the pagefile by allocating large amounts of memory, then modifying the paged out code in the pagefile to inject shellcode without requiring a signature.
2) The concept of an undetectable "Blue Pill" malware that could install itself on-the-fly by exploiting AMD64 SVM virtualization extensions to move the operating system into a virtual machine controlled by a thin hypervisor.
3) Challenges of handling nested virtual machines to prevent detection when the system is already compromised by "Blue Pill" malware.
OSMC 2009 | Windows monitoring - Going where no man has gone before... by Mic...NETWAYS
You have just spent 3 hours fixing the up monitoring of the multiport memory on the 11/780s making that the last node of the Vax beowulf cluster when the boss comes blustering in with his usual nonsense. "The mail is not working" he blurts out as if you would be interested. "Well what did I tell you" you retort slyly "thats what happens when you buy /windows servers/."
As you crawl out from the service hatch, to see what the boss is on about, you notice a faint burning smell and, to your great satisfaction, that the annoying blinking red error light has finally stopped on the exchange server...
Maybe, just maybe you think it is time to change all this?
This workshop will give you a hands-on introduction on how to use NSClient++ to monitor your windows servers from Nagios (or whatever monitoring solution you prefer). We will start off by installing NSClient++ so the only prerequisite is a w32-based laptop (or quite possibly a virtual machine running on your local beowulf cluster). After installing NSClient++ we will learn how to use it to monitor some common things via NRPE (and if there is interest NSCA). I will also go over the security implications to using NSClient++ and what you can do to keep your windows machines secure.
This document summarizes the Linux audit system and proposes improvements. It begins with an overview of auditd and how audit messages are generated and processed in the kernel. Issues with auditd's performance, output format, and filtering are discussed. An alternative approach is proposed that uses libmnl for netlink handling, groups related audit messages into JSON objects, applies Lua-based filtering, and supports multiple output types like ZeroMQ and syslog. Benchmark results show this rewrite reduces CPU usage compared to auditd. The document advocates for continued abstraction and integration of additional data sources while avoiding feature creep.
Droidcon it 2015: Android Lollipop for EnterpriseConsulthinkspa
Android Lollipop introduced several new security features for enterprise mobile device management including enhanced SELinux policies, Smart Lock, Device Protection, the Device Administration API, and Managed Profiles. It also improved data encryption with faster encryption of only used blocks and support for encryption without password. These features help provide a more secure environment for enterprise mobility.
The document discusses using a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to securely store encryption keys for disk encryption on Linux. It describes configuring TPM to measure and seal an encryption key file using PCR registers. Modifications are made to initramfs and cryptroot scripts to support unsealing the key during boot without user input by using the TPM. While TPM provides secure storage, integrating it with Linux disk encryption requires additional configuration to get the key unsealed and passed to cryptsetup during early boot stages.
• Each SELinux access control model is simple, but actually
access control is more complex
• Red Hat puts a lot of effort into SELinux, policy and utils for
SELinux usability
– Enlarging default policy modules
– Encouraging Policy module system
– Analyzing and generating policies from access violation log
Server Hardening Primer - Eric Vanderburg - JURINNOVEric Vanderburg
The document discusses hardening servers and networks against attacks. It recommends disabling nonessential systems; hardening operating systems by applying updates, securing the file system, and hardening applications; and hardening servers like web, mail, FTP, DNS, NNTP, print/file, and DHCP servers. It also recommends hardening networks by properly configuring equipment like routers and firewalls to filter packets.
Вячеслав Кабак "Microsoft Sysinternals-Useful Utilities"EPAM Systems
This document provides summaries of various system utilities from Sysinternals.com. It groups the utilities into categories such as File and Disk Utilities, Networking Utilities, Process Utilities, Security Utilities, System Information Utilities, and Miscellaneous Utilities. Key utilities are highlighted including PsTools, Process Monitor, Process Explorer, Autoruns, and BgInfo which provide information on processes, system activity in real-time, open files and registry keys, auto-starting programs, and system information for desktop backgrounds. The document serves as a reference guide to powerful free command line tools and applications that can help optimize, troubleshoot, and secure Windows systems.
The document discusses using Autoruns and Security Onion to uncover persistence on systems. It describes how Autoruns can detect various types of persistence mechanisms including boot execute items, DLLs, Explorer addons, image hijacks, and more. It then outlines how Security Onion can be used to generate Autoruns logs from multiple systems, normalize the data, import it, and perform queries to detect anomalous or malicious items that may indicate persistence. Real-world use cases are discussed where this approach reduces the number of items to manually review from thousands to a few hundred.
This document provides an overview of Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux). It discusses what SELinux is, how it implements mandatory access control on Linux systems, and some basic SELinux concepts like types, users, roles, and the policy. It also covers installing SELinux on CentOS 7 and checking the mode.
This document discusses memory forensics and the Volatility framework. It begins by distinguishing memory forensics from disk forensics and explaining why memory forensics is needed to analyze skilled attackers and advanced malware that aim to avoid disk artifacts. It then provides an overview of Volatility capabilities for analyzing processes, network connections, code injection techniques, and decrypting software-based encryption keys from memory captures. It emphasizes that memory forensics can recover important evidence that is never written to disk.
[DefCon 2016] I got 99 Problems, but Little Snitch ain’t one!Synack
Security products should make our computers more secure, not less. Little Snitch is the de facto personal firewall for OS X that aims to secure a Mac by blocking unauthorized network traffic. Unfortunately bypassing this firewall's network monitoring mechanisms is trivial...and worse yet, the firewall's kernel core was found to contain an exploitable ring-0 heap-overflow. #fail
This document discusses customizing Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) content for openSUSE. It begins with an introduction to SCAP and its components like OVAL, XCCDF, and OCIL. It notes that while OVAL definitions exist for openSUSE, an XCCDF benchmark is needed to enable compliance testing. The document considers customizing an existing SLES or RHEL XCCDF file by changing platform identifiers and related files. It demonstrates using the oscap tool to evaluate a customized RHEL XCCDF benchmark against an openSUSE system and generating results. Further work is needed to fully adapt the customized XCCDF content to the openSUSE standard and profile for compliance benchmarks.
The document discusses the Android booting process. It begins with the boot ROM and boot loader which initialize hardware and load the kernel image. The kernel then initializes drivers and loads init, which sets up the environment and mounts partitions. Init starts the zygote process, which preloads classes. System servers like the activity manager and power manager are then started via zygote. Once all servers are running, Android broadcasts an intent to indicate the boot process is complete. The boot sequence involves the bootloader, kernel, init, zygote and system servers working together to start the Android system.
This document provides instructions for installing Oracle 11g Release 2 on Fedora 14. It describes downloading and unpacking the required software, configuring kernel parameters and firewall settings, installing prerequisite packages, creating user groups and directories for the installation, and running the Oracle Universal Installer to complete the database installation. Post-installation steps involve restoring the original "/etc/redhat-release" file and setting the restart flag in "/etc/oratab".
See the improved version: https://www.slideshare.net/ApostolosGiannakidis/mitigating-java-deserialization-attacks-from-within-the-jvm-improved-version
A talk about the existing ways to mitigate Java deserialization attacks from the JVM. The talk was presented at the BSides Luxembourg conference on October 2017.
It describes the use of Instrumentation Agents and Serialization Filtering and their limitations.
It also talks about Runtime Virtualization and Runtime privilege de-escalation.
At the talk there was also a PoC demo that demonstrated how an Instrumentation Agent could be tampered from a file upload vulnerability at the application level.
This document summarizes several Windows registry keys and artifacts that can provide information about a user's digital activities. It describes keys that track recently opened files, installed applications, browser history and search terms, network connections, and more. Examining these locations can reveal details like the files and websites a user accessed, when they were accessed, and from where they originated.
Android boot time optimization involves measuring boot times, analyzing the results, and reducing times. Key areas of focus include the bootloader, kernel initialization, zygote class preloading, and system service startup. Hibernation technologies like QuickBoot and Fast-On can improve resume speeds by saving a system image to flash. The "R-Loader" concept aims to minimize hardware re-initialization on resume by directly loading a suspended kernel image.
TechMentor Fall, 2011 - Packaging Software for Automated Deployment with Wind...Concentrated Technology
There are two parts to automated software deployment: packaging and deployment. Packaging involves reconfiguring software installations to install silently without user input. Deployment involves loading repackaged software into a deployment tool for scheduled installation on target machines. Common packaging methods include analyzing EXE, MSI, and copy-it-yourself formats to determine installation switches or capturing changes through differential analysis. Repackaged software can then be deployed through Group Policy installation, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit task sequences, or other deployment tools.
This document outlines top 10 ways to stop hackers from gaining access to servers, including securing email clients, restricting anonymous access, applying access control lists (ACLs) to system executables and directories, disabling unnecessary services, filtering ports, disabling NetBIOS, applying security templates, following the IIS5 security checklist, and applying relevant hotfixes from Microsoft. It provides specific configuration steps and examples for hardening security on Windows servers.
Thousands of running services on hundreds of machines ask the admins to pay attention. At all times, on all channels, with all available software packages that openSUSE has to offer.
Lars does not only keep an eye on all devices inside SUSE R&D, he is also maintaining some of the biggest packages in the server:monitoring repository like Nagios, Icinga, Shinken, check_mk, mod_gearman, Naemon, PNP4Nagios or the monitoring-plugins (and others).
The integration of some of those packages into a complex, secure and high available monitoring setup together with some tips and tricks and insights into the SUSE R&D infrastructure will be demonstrated.
Android booting sequece and setup and debuggingUtkarsh Mankad
The document summarizes key Android SDK components and concepts in 3 sentences or less:
Android SDK components are organized by functionality and include Activities, Services, BroadcastReceivers, Views, Intents, Adapters, AlertDialogs, Notifications, ContentProviders, and data storage methods. Common data storage options include SharedPreferences, internal storage, external storage, and SQLite databases. The Android booting process involves 6 stages: power on and ROM code execution, boot loader loading, starting the Linux kernel, initiating the init process, launching the Zygote and Dalvik virtual machine, and system server initiation.
Jean-Ian Boutin, ESET
Frédéric Vachon, ESET
BIOS rootkits have been researched and discussed heavily in the past few years, but sparse evidence has been presented of real campaigns actively trying to compromise a system at this level. Our talk will reveal such a campaign successfully executed by STRONTIUM.
Earlier this year, there was a public report stating that the infamous Sofacy/APT28/Sednit APT group successfully trojanized a userland LoJack agent and used it against their targets. LoJack, a controversial anti-theft software, was scrutinized by security researchers in the past because of its unusual persistence method: a module preinstalled in many computers' UEFI/BIOS software. Several security risks were found through the years in their product, but no large in-the-wild activity was ever detected until the discovery of the STRONTIUM group leveraging some of these vulnerabilities affecting the userland agent. However, through our research, we now know that they did not stop there: they also tried, and succeeded, in installing a custom UEFI module directly in the systems' SPI flash memory.
In this talk, we will detail the full infection chain showing how STRONTIUM was able to install their custom UEFI module on key targets' computers.
Additionally, we will provide an in-depth analysis of their UEFI module and the associated trojanized LoJack agent.
The Android booting process involves 5 stages:
1. The bootloader loads the kernel from flash memory into RAM.
2. The kernel initializes the system and loads drivers. It then launches the init process.
3. Init mounts filesystems and runs scripts to set up services. It also loads properties and launches the Zygote process.
4. Zygote preloads classes and resources. It forks to create new processes like the System Server using copy-on-write.
5. The System Server starts core system services. When complete, Android has finished booting and is ready for use.
2009-08-24 The Linux Audit Subsystem Deep DiveShawn Wells
Presented at SHARE Denver 2009. Why is Linux auditing needed? What can it do for me? How does it work? What events get audited? How do I make sense of all the data?
The Linux audit framework as shipped with many Linux distributions system provides a framework that reliably collects information about any security-relevant events. The audit records can be examined to determine whether any violation of the security policies has been committed, and by whom. Linux audit helps make your system more secure by providing you with a means to analyze what is happening on your system in great detail. It does not, however, provide additional security itself—it does not protect your system from code malfunctions or any kind of exploits. Instead, Audit is useful for tracking these issues and helps you take additional security measures to prevent them. This session provides a basic understanding of how audit works, how it can be set up, and how to use various utilities to display, query and archive the audit trail and how Linux Audit can be part of any overall Defense in Depth strategy.
The document discusses using a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to securely store encryption keys for disk encryption on Linux. It describes configuring TPM to measure and seal an encryption key file using PCR registers. Modifications are made to initramfs and cryptroot scripts to support unsealing the key during boot without user input by using the TPM. While TPM provides secure storage, integrating it with Linux disk encryption requires additional configuration to get the key unsealed and passed to cryptsetup during early boot stages.
• Each SELinux access control model is simple, but actually
access control is more complex
• Red Hat puts a lot of effort into SELinux, policy and utils for
SELinux usability
– Enlarging default policy modules
– Encouraging Policy module system
– Analyzing and generating policies from access violation log
Server Hardening Primer - Eric Vanderburg - JURINNOVEric Vanderburg
The document discusses hardening servers and networks against attacks. It recommends disabling nonessential systems; hardening operating systems by applying updates, securing the file system, and hardening applications; and hardening servers like web, mail, FTP, DNS, NNTP, print/file, and DHCP servers. It also recommends hardening networks by properly configuring equipment like routers and firewalls to filter packets.
Вячеслав Кабак "Microsoft Sysinternals-Useful Utilities"EPAM Systems
This document provides summaries of various system utilities from Sysinternals.com. It groups the utilities into categories such as File and Disk Utilities, Networking Utilities, Process Utilities, Security Utilities, System Information Utilities, and Miscellaneous Utilities. Key utilities are highlighted including PsTools, Process Monitor, Process Explorer, Autoruns, and BgInfo which provide information on processes, system activity in real-time, open files and registry keys, auto-starting programs, and system information for desktop backgrounds. The document serves as a reference guide to powerful free command line tools and applications that can help optimize, troubleshoot, and secure Windows systems.
The document discusses using Autoruns and Security Onion to uncover persistence on systems. It describes how Autoruns can detect various types of persistence mechanisms including boot execute items, DLLs, Explorer addons, image hijacks, and more. It then outlines how Security Onion can be used to generate Autoruns logs from multiple systems, normalize the data, import it, and perform queries to detect anomalous or malicious items that may indicate persistence. Real-world use cases are discussed where this approach reduces the number of items to manually review from thousands to a few hundred.
This document provides an overview of Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux). It discusses what SELinux is, how it implements mandatory access control on Linux systems, and some basic SELinux concepts like types, users, roles, and the policy. It also covers installing SELinux on CentOS 7 and checking the mode.
This document discusses memory forensics and the Volatility framework. It begins by distinguishing memory forensics from disk forensics and explaining why memory forensics is needed to analyze skilled attackers and advanced malware that aim to avoid disk artifacts. It then provides an overview of Volatility capabilities for analyzing processes, network connections, code injection techniques, and decrypting software-based encryption keys from memory captures. It emphasizes that memory forensics can recover important evidence that is never written to disk.
[DefCon 2016] I got 99 Problems, but Little Snitch ain’t one!Synack
Security products should make our computers more secure, not less. Little Snitch is the de facto personal firewall for OS X that aims to secure a Mac by blocking unauthorized network traffic. Unfortunately bypassing this firewall's network monitoring mechanisms is trivial...and worse yet, the firewall's kernel core was found to contain an exploitable ring-0 heap-overflow. #fail
This document discusses customizing Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) content for openSUSE. It begins with an introduction to SCAP and its components like OVAL, XCCDF, and OCIL. It notes that while OVAL definitions exist for openSUSE, an XCCDF benchmark is needed to enable compliance testing. The document considers customizing an existing SLES or RHEL XCCDF file by changing platform identifiers and related files. It demonstrates using the oscap tool to evaluate a customized RHEL XCCDF benchmark against an openSUSE system and generating results. Further work is needed to fully adapt the customized XCCDF content to the openSUSE standard and profile for compliance benchmarks.
The document discusses the Android booting process. It begins with the boot ROM and boot loader which initialize hardware and load the kernel image. The kernel then initializes drivers and loads init, which sets up the environment and mounts partitions. Init starts the zygote process, which preloads classes. System servers like the activity manager and power manager are then started via zygote. Once all servers are running, Android broadcasts an intent to indicate the boot process is complete. The boot sequence involves the bootloader, kernel, init, zygote and system servers working together to start the Android system.
This document provides instructions for installing Oracle 11g Release 2 on Fedora 14. It describes downloading and unpacking the required software, configuring kernel parameters and firewall settings, installing prerequisite packages, creating user groups and directories for the installation, and running the Oracle Universal Installer to complete the database installation. Post-installation steps involve restoring the original "/etc/redhat-release" file and setting the restart flag in "/etc/oratab".
See the improved version: https://www.slideshare.net/ApostolosGiannakidis/mitigating-java-deserialization-attacks-from-within-the-jvm-improved-version
A talk about the existing ways to mitigate Java deserialization attacks from the JVM. The talk was presented at the BSides Luxembourg conference on October 2017.
It describes the use of Instrumentation Agents and Serialization Filtering and their limitations.
It also talks about Runtime Virtualization and Runtime privilege de-escalation.
At the talk there was also a PoC demo that demonstrated how an Instrumentation Agent could be tampered from a file upload vulnerability at the application level.
This document summarizes several Windows registry keys and artifacts that can provide information about a user's digital activities. It describes keys that track recently opened files, installed applications, browser history and search terms, network connections, and more. Examining these locations can reveal details like the files and websites a user accessed, when they were accessed, and from where they originated.
Android boot time optimization involves measuring boot times, analyzing the results, and reducing times. Key areas of focus include the bootloader, kernel initialization, zygote class preloading, and system service startup. Hibernation technologies like QuickBoot and Fast-On can improve resume speeds by saving a system image to flash. The "R-Loader" concept aims to minimize hardware re-initialization on resume by directly loading a suspended kernel image.
TechMentor Fall, 2011 - Packaging Software for Automated Deployment with Wind...Concentrated Technology
There are two parts to automated software deployment: packaging and deployment. Packaging involves reconfiguring software installations to install silently without user input. Deployment involves loading repackaged software into a deployment tool for scheduled installation on target machines. Common packaging methods include analyzing EXE, MSI, and copy-it-yourself formats to determine installation switches or capturing changes through differential analysis. Repackaged software can then be deployed through Group Policy installation, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit task sequences, or other deployment tools.
This document outlines top 10 ways to stop hackers from gaining access to servers, including securing email clients, restricting anonymous access, applying access control lists (ACLs) to system executables and directories, disabling unnecessary services, filtering ports, disabling NetBIOS, applying security templates, following the IIS5 security checklist, and applying relevant hotfixes from Microsoft. It provides specific configuration steps and examples for hardening security on Windows servers.
Thousands of running services on hundreds of machines ask the admins to pay attention. At all times, on all channels, with all available software packages that openSUSE has to offer.
Lars does not only keep an eye on all devices inside SUSE R&D, he is also maintaining some of the biggest packages in the server:monitoring repository like Nagios, Icinga, Shinken, check_mk, mod_gearman, Naemon, PNP4Nagios or the monitoring-plugins (and others).
The integration of some of those packages into a complex, secure and high available monitoring setup together with some tips and tricks and insights into the SUSE R&D infrastructure will be demonstrated.
Android booting sequece and setup and debuggingUtkarsh Mankad
The document summarizes key Android SDK components and concepts in 3 sentences or less:
Android SDK components are organized by functionality and include Activities, Services, BroadcastReceivers, Views, Intents, Adapters, AlertDialogs, Notifications, ContentProviders, and data storage methods. Common data storage options include SharedPreferences, internal storage, external storage, and SQLite databases. The Android booting process involves 6 stages: power on and ROM code execution, boot loader loading, starting the Linux kernel, initiating the init process, launching the Zygote and Dalvik virtual machine, and system server initiation.
Jean-Ian Boutin, ESET
Frédéric Vachon, ESET
BIOS rootkits have been researched and discussed heavily in the past few years, but sparse evidence has been presented of real campaigns actively trying to compromise a system at this level. Our talk will reveal such a campaign successfully executed by STRONTIUM.
Earlier this year, there was a public report stating that the infamous Sofacy/APT28/Sednit APT group successfully trojanized a userland LoJack agent and used it against their targets. LoJack, a controversial anti-theft software, was scrutinized by security researchers in the past because of its unusual persistence method: a module preinstalled in many computers' UEFI/BIOS software. Several security risks were found through the years in their product, but no large in-the-wild activity was ever detected until the discovery of the STRONTIUM group leveraging some of these vulnerabilities affecting the userland agent. However, through our research, we now know that they did not stop there: they also tried, and succeeded, in installing a custom UEFI module directly in the systems' SPI flash memory.
In this talk, we will detail the full infection chain showing how STRONTIUM was able to install their custom UEFI module on key targets' computers.
Additionally, we will provide an in-depth analysis of their UEFI module and the associated trojanized LoJack agent.
The Android booting process involves 5 stages:
1. The bootloader loads the kernel from flash memory into RAM.
2. The kernel initializes the system and loads drivers. It then launches the init process.
3. Init mounts filesystems and runs scripts to set up services. It also loads properties and launches the Zygote process.
4. Zygote preloads classes and resources. It forks to create new processes like the System Server using copy-on-write.
5. The System Server starts core system services. When complete, Android has finished booting and is ready for use.
2009-08-24 The Linux Audit Subsystem Deep DiveShawn Wells
Presented at SHARE Denver 2009. Why is Linux auditing needed? What can it do for me? How does it work? What events get audited? How do I make sense of all the data?
The Linux audit framework as shipped with many Linux distributions system provides a framework that reliably collects information about any security-relevant events. The audit records can be examined to determine whether any violation of the security policies has been committed, and by whom. Linux audit helps make your system more secure by providing you with a means to analyze what is happening on your system in great detail. It does not, however, provide additional security itself—it does not protect your system from code malfunctions or any kind of exploits. Instead, Audit is useful for tracking these issues and helps you take additional security measures to prevent them. This session provides a basic understanding of how audit works, how it can be set up, and how to use various utilities to display, query and archive the audit trail and how Linux Audit can be part of any overall Defense in Depth strategy.
Insider Threat Law: Balancing Privacy and ProtectionObserveIT
Explore the legal parameters of implementing an insider threat program, including the application of employee monitoring tools. Learn how to protect your corporate assets while respecting the privacy of your employees.
Employee monitoring rules – who, what, when, where, how and why
Employee privacy rights
Lawful employee screening procedures
Employee investigation rules
About Presenter
Shawn Thompson, J.D.
Over 15 years’ experience investigating, prosecuting, and managing insider threats.
Senior Litigation Attorney, Department of Defense
Insider Threat Program Manager, Department of Defense
Assistant General Counsel, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Board Member, National Insider Threat Special Interest Group
Special Assistant United States Attorney, United States Department of Justice
Vice President, Enterprise Security Risk Management, InfoTeK Corporation
Version 6.7 further enhances monitoring and investigation capabilities and ensures your organization will continue to comply worldwide standards (whether it’s PCI, SOX, HIPAA, NERC, FFIEC, FISMA or FERPA):
- Enhanced insider threat library with 180 out-of-the-box smart alerts
- Anonymization for enhanced user privacy
- Complete monitoring of user activity on Mac endpoints
- Detection of data exfiltration attempts via print jobs
- Enhanced integration capabilities with Splunk, QRadar, ArcSight and LogRhythm.
Announcing ObserveIT v 6.7: The leading solution for insider threat and compliance just got better.
ObserveIT helps you manage the most fickle security variable: people. We provide configurable smart alerts and irrefutable video logs of vendors, privileged users, or high risk users who breach security policies and put your organization at risk.
Version 6.7 further enhances monitoring and investigation capabilities and ensures your organization will continue to comply worldwide standards.
Enhanced insider threat library with 180 out-of-the-box smart alerts
Detection of data exfiltration attempts via print jobs
User identity anonymization for enhanced privacy
Complete monitoring of user activity on Mac endpoints
Enhanced Integration capabilities with Splunk, QRadar, ArcSight and LogRhythm.
This document discusses using SE-Linux to protect confidential PDF files on a Linux system. It describes implementing SE-Linux in targeted mode with a custom module. A special "TopSecret" category is assigned to PDF files. The appserv user is given access to this category to allow the application server to access the PDFs. Strict restrictions are placed on administrator access using sudo, su, SSH, and auditing to log all access attempts to the protected PDF directory. The implementation provides mandatory access control while maintaining manageability for system operators.
SHOWDOWN: Threat Stack vs. Red Hat AuditDThreat Stack
Traditionally, people have used the userland daemon ‘auditd’ built by some good Red Hat folks to collect and consume this data. However, there are a couple of problems with traditional open source auditd and auditd libraries that we’ve had to deal with ourselves, especially when trying to run it on performance sensitive systems and make sense of the sometimes obtuse data that traditional auditd spits out. To that effect, we’ve written a custom audit listener from the ground up for the Threat Stack agent (tsauditd).
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This document provides an introduction to using IPython and improving Python code through various techniques like list comprehensions and collections. It discusses features of IPython like interactive shells and Jupyter notebooks. It also covers enhancing for loops, dictionaries, and using namedtuple to organize data from collections. The goal is to help readers become more proficient in Python.
There are many ways to keep track of your IT inventory. We have experienced great success with an Open Source solution that can automate the process of managing the inventory of a network. It can tell you what is on your network, how it is configured and when it changes. It works with Windows, Mac and Linux systems and can be customized to work in most network environments.
Bringing Infosec Into The Devops Tribe: Q&A With Gene Kim and Pete CheslockThreat Stack
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We often hear that viruses do not affect Linux systems. If it was only true... To understand why there is malware in the first place, we look at the reasons for evildoers to create harmful software. When that is clear, we move on by defining several types of malware, to finally focus on a very particular one, the rootkit. A quick course into the cleverness of rootkits follows, with the related challenges it offers for detection. We close the session by giving tips on detection and prevention.
Presentation about how everyone, no matter what their role in securing an organizing is, can make a difference. Sometimes it is about taking a little vulnerability like the IIS Tilde Directory Enumeration vulnerability and making a better exploitation tool. Or perhaps contributing in other ways.
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2009-08-11 IBM Teach the Teachers (IBM T3), Linux Security OverviewShawn Wells
Co-presented with Matt Jamison (Sr Architect, DoD Programs) at the IBM Teach the Teacher (IBM T3) conference. Discussed SELinux, Policy Enforcement, Discretionary Access Control, Multi-Level Security vs Multi-Category Security, Role-Based Access Control, usage of SELinux, Linux Audit Subsystem, and host hardening procedures.
Using Python, the author has developed a program that learns about protocol formats, with the main goal in being useful for Deep Packet Inspection. Deep Packet Inspection is a process mainly used in network security to ensure integrity of network data sent across the network. Deep Packet Inspection is used to pre-empt and prevent malicious data from being transmitted over a network in order to ensure the security of the organization.
http://tw.pycon.org/2015apac/en/lightning_en
Are you really sure the security of your Linux systems is done properly? Since 2002, Michael Boelen performs research in this field. The answer is short: there is too much to possible and to do. For this reason, he created several open source security tools, to help others saving time. We will look into how Lynis can help with technical security scans.
In this talk, we had a look on how Lynis helps with system hardening. We discussed the background of the tool, lessons learned after 13 years of open source software development, and what the future plans are.
This presentation of 40 minutes gives a quick introduction in the world of Linux malware and incident handling. We cover malware, like rootkits and how they hide on the system. Finally we look at how to handle with a compromised system, and go into the possible defenses to limit the risks.
Akash Mahajan, Appsecco
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Who is this talk for?
This talks and demo is relevant and useful for any practitioner of DevSecOps.
It introduces the concepts of declarative security
Showcases one of the tools (Ansible) to embrace DevSecOps in a friction free no expense required manner
Implements security architecture principles using a structured language (YAML) as part of the framework (playbooks) which is ‘Infrastructure As Code’
Gives a clear roadmap on how to find the best practices for security hardening
Covers how continuous monitoring can be applied for security
Technical Requirements
While 30 minutes short for letting attendees do hands-on, the following will be required
- A modern Linux distribution with Python and Ansible installed
- Basic idea of running commands on the Linux command line
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The document discusses various topics related to user security in Linux systems. It covers selecting strong passwords, managing passwords using tools like passwd and PAM, using utilities like sudo and vlock to control access, and seeing who is logged into the system. It emphasizes the importance of password security and provides tips for creating secure passwords.
Hands On Introduction To Ansible Configuration Management With Ansible Comple...SlideTeam
Hands On Introduction To Ansible Configuration Management With Ansible Complete Deck is designed for the upper and mid-level management. Take advantage of the informative visuals of this PPT slideshow to elucidate the application deployment tool. With the help of our intuitive PowerPoint template deck, explain the advantages of the Ansible automation tool. This viewer-friendly PPT theme is perfect to elaborate on the architecture of Ansible software. This is because of the state-of-the-art diagrams that simplify the explanation. Consolidate the characteristics and capabilities of Ansible applications such as configuration management and cloud provisioning. This PowerPoint presentation features an Ansible installation flowchart for an organization. Employ the neat tabular format to compile the differences between Ansible and Puppet. This will assist your organization to implement Ansible and its configuration in an effective manner. Hit the download icon and begin instant personalization. https://bit.ly/3mLQJtJ
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3. A sample deployment script that would run on servers to check out the appropriate code from Git based on the job parameters.
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This document provides summaries of various free tools for Windows server administration. It is organized into sections covering server and security tools, file and disk tools, and network monitoring and troubleshooting tools. For each tool, a brief description is given along with the download link. Over 50 different tools are mentioned and summarized.
PuppetConf 2016: Watching the Puppet Show – Sean Porter, Heavy Water OperationsPuppet
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This document introduces Ubuntu Snap technology. It discusses that Snap is a new software package format that provides transactional updates, self-containment, and application confinement through security mechanisms. Snap packages can contain services, command line tools, or graphical applications and provide writable spaces for data and common areas between versions. The document also overviewed Snapcraft for developing Snaps and Ubuntu Core which uses all Snaps for an minimal and secure IoT focused Ubuntu distribution.
This document discusses Ubuntu Touch, an open-source operating system for phones and tablets. It provides an overview of Canonical, the developer of Ubuntu Touch, and describes key aspects of the Ubuntu Touch architecture like the use of scopes to deliver content. It also covers topics like customizing Ubuntu Touch through colors, backgrounds, preinstalled content and more.
Salt conf 2014 - Using SaltStack in high availability environmentsBenjamin Cane
This document discusses best practices for using SaltStack in high availability environments. It recommends automating processes like system builds, configurations, application installations and updates to replace manual human processes that often cause downtime. Specific techniques covered include using pillars to define server configurations, templates to deploy consistent configuration files, scripts to install third-party applications, and automatically running states on a schedule while staggering restarts across servers. It cautions that automatic state runs may not always be appropriate and recommends using test runs to validate changes.
DevOps: Continuous Delivery and Windows AzureIván Vilaboa
This document discusses various DevOps practices and tools for continuous delivery including deploying to Windows Azure. It describes principles of continuous delivery like deploying changes quickly and reliably. Delivery models from no process to collaborative are presented. Practices like automating everything, versioning configurations, and deploying the same way to every environment are recommended. Tools covered include Chef for infrastructure as code, Vagrant for reproducible environments, Juju for OpenStack, and Release Management for .NET teams. The document encourages thinking about additional delivery practices and patterns.
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Whitepaper: User Audit Options for Linux and Solaris
1. WHITEPAPER
Options for User Auditing on
Linux and Solaris Platforms
Cyril Plisko, CTO of Grigale Ltd.
January 2012
Like a Security Camera on Your Servers!