cyber crime &_info_security

“Aut viam inveniam aut faciam ” Hannibal Barca

CYBER CRIME & INFORMATION

SECURITY

there is 10 kinds of people in the world ,

those that know they've been hacked

and those that don't.

DO YOU KNOW?

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• The opinion here represented are my personal ones and do

not necessary reflect my employers views.

• Registered brands belong to their legitimate owners.

• The information contained in this

presentation does not break any intellectual

property, nor does it provide detailed

information that may be in conflict with

actual laws (hopefully...) :)

DISCLAIMER(S)

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• Information and resources from Internet were

extensively used for the creation of this presentation.

REFERENCES

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• Why are we here?

• Interactive Session….

• Get the maximum out of this

session.

BEFORE WE START

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CONCLUSION

INFORMATION SECURITY

INFORMATION SECURITY

INFORMATION SECURITY

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

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• To take you from the “don’t know” state to

“know” state.

OBJECTIVE

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• The 3 upcoming technology areas (Triple-S –

3S)

3 UPCOMING DOMAINS

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• The 3 upcoming technology areas (Triple-S –

3S).

• Synchronize (Collaboration)

• Store (Storage),

• Secure – (Security)

• Its challenging

• You need to have the “stuff”

3 UPCOMING DOMAINS

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• Almost all the major / critical networks like:

• Defense,

• Communication,

• Financial,

• Infra networks, (Power Grids,)

• anywhere & everywhere....

SCOPE – SECURITY PRO

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THE MONEY FACTOR

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• Average hourly rate – $40 – $60

• Skilled Security Pro’s – $100 – $120 - $150

• 100 X 8 hrs = 800

• 800 X 5 days = 4000

• 4000 X 4 weeks = 16,000

• $ 16,000 to INR (Rs 50) = 8,00,000

FINANCIALS – SKILLED “PRO”

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# IT‘S A LONG JOURNEY

Always remember - you cannot master

everything in a single day or through a single

course

"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be

afraid of standing still"

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• World wide internet usage (2008) -

694 Million

• World wide internet usage ( Jun 2010) -

1.97 Billion

• World wide internet usage ( Dec, 31 2011) -

6,930,055,154 (6.93 Billion)

INTERNET – THE BIG PICTURE

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• 107 trillion – Emails sent on the Internet (2010)

• 294 billion – Average # of email messages per

day.

• 1.88 billion – # of email users worldwide.

• 89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.

• 262 billion – The number of spam emails per

day

EMAIL – THE BIG PICTURE

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So what are the possibilities when you get

connected?

POSSIBILITIES?

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• 6.93 Billion users can communicate with your

system

or

• Your system can communicate with 6.93

Billion users.

THE BIGGER PICTURE

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• Out of the 6.93 Billion, some can rattle your

door to your computer to see if it is locked or

not

• locked – Its fine

• not locked – not fine

THE BIGGER PICTURE

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• Out of the 1.8 Billion, if 1% connects to your

system, what will happen?

• 1 % = ?

CAN YOU HANDLE IT?

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# DO YOU REMEMBER CAT 2K9?

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# CASE STUDY

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# CASE STUDY

• The most powerful and costliest(physics) experiment ever built

• 5000 high power magnetsarranged in a 27 km giant tunnel.

• will re-create the conditionspresent in the Universe just afterthe Big Bang

• Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

• CERN - European Organization forNuclear Research

• Hacked on 10 Sep 0822

# CASE STUDY

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CASE STUDY

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CASE STUDY

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VICTIMS

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VICTIMS

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VICTIMS

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• What’s happening in the Indian Web Space?

• 14 Aug – Independence day of Pakistan

• Underground cracking groups

• http://www.pakcyberarmy.net/

• http://www.pakhaxors.com/forum.php

WHAT’S THE LATEST

HAPPENING?

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• The Two Pakistani Cracker Groups reportedly

defaced a dozen of Indian Websites including:

• http://mallyainparliament.in/ and

• http://malegaonkahero.com/

WHAT’S THE LATEST

HAPPENING?

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What’s the latest happening?

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EVEN THE PM WAS NOT

SPARED

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• 15 Aug 2010

• In return an Indian underground group called

as Indian Cyber Army (http://indishell.in)

defaced around 1226 websites of Pakistan.

WHAT’S THE LATEST

HAPPENING?

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• 1 million passwords exposed

• 25 million entertainment users Info @ Risk

• More than 20,000 credit card and bank

account numbers @ Risk

• Initial attack – leak of over 70 million accounts

from Sony’s Playstation Network

Ref: - http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/05/sony-online-entertainment-hack/

CASE STUDY – SONY OWNED

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•LulzSec - The Hacker Group - Statement:

“Why do you put such faith in a company that

allows itself to become open to these simple

attacks?“

• Your clients trust your network?

Ref: - http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/sony-hacked-again/tech/#

CASE STUDY – SONY OWNED

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WHO IS THIS?

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ARE WE AFFECTED?

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ARE WE AFFECTED?

• India – The largest democracy in the world.

• Election / Voting – The heart of this

democracy

• Is this voting secure?

• Indian Electronic Voting Machines are

Vulnerable

• Mr Hariprasad – Arrested on 22 Aug 2011

• http://indiaevm.org/

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BOT TAKEDOWN

• 11 Nov 2011 – Biggest Botnet Takedown ever

• Operation Ghost Click – by FBI

• Raided two data centers in Chicago and NY.

• Command and Control (C&C) Center consisting of

more than 100 servers

• Combined Operation - Trend Micro, Mandiant,

Neustar, Spamhaus and the University of Alabama

at Birmingham's computer forensics research

group.Reference: http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/security/feds-lead-biggest-botnet-takedown-ever-end-massive-clickjack-fraud

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BOT TAKEDOWN

Vladimir Tsastsin, CEO of Rove Digital40

VODAFONE GREECE SCANDAL

• 100+ VIP mobile subscribers have been

eavesdropped. (Govt members, Defence

officials including Greek PM, Foreign Minister,

Defence Minister, etc)

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TELECOM CASE STUDY?

• Also known as SISMI-Telecom scandal

• Uncovered in 2006

• Surveillance scandal believed to have begun

in 1996, under which more than 5,000 persons

phones were tapped

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TELECOM CASE STUDY?

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LORDS OF DHARMARAJA

• United States-China Economic and Security

Review Commission(USCC)

• Tactical Network for Cellular Surveillance

(TANCS)

• Escrow

• Source code of Norton Antivirus

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• What does this mean?

• Internet = No boundaries

• You(r network) could be the next target

NO BOUNDERIES

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Protecting the resources by locking it under the

lock and key

TRADITIONAL SECURITY

CONCEPT

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• Security is a state of well being

• Security is all about being prepared for the

unexpected.

CURRENT SECURITY CONCEPT

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• What is a Cyber Crime?

“Any criminal activity that uses a computer

either as an:

• instrument or tool,

• Target, or

• as a means / incidental to crime

for committing crimes”

DIGITAL ATTACKS & CYBER

CRIMES

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• Physical Presence

• Can be performed without revealing your

identity.

• White Collar Crime

• Faster crime execution

• Remote execution

DIFFERENCE

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• Naïve computer users

• Greedy people

• Users who are not aware about the latest

mode of cyber crimes.

VICTIMS

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# CREDIT & DEBIT CARDS?

• How many of you use credit cards?

• What is the trust factor here?

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• Crackers / Intruders have broken into Web

servers owned by domain registrar and

hosting provider Network Solutions, planting

rogue code that resulted in the compromise of

more than 573,000 debit and credit card

accounts over a period of three months

# CASE STUDY

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CASE STUDY

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SSL

Image Source: http://www.awghost.com/images/ssl-cert.jpg55

SSL

• Replaced by TLS

• Protects the communication by encryption

• Data is secure in-transit.

• But:

• Is it secure at the client side?

• Is it secure at the server side?

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# CREDIT & DEBIT CARDS?

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• What’s the image that comes to your mind

when you hear about “hacker” or “hacking”?

# HACKING

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BEFORE WE START….

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• Commonly defined in the media as:

“Illegal intrusion into a computer system

without the permission of the computer

owner/user”

# HACKING

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• Most people associate hacking with breaking

the law.

• Assume that everyone who engages in hacking

activities is a criminal

# MISCONCEPTIONS

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# HACKING

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Linux Penguin

# HACKING

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# HACKING

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BSD Daemon

# HACKING

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# HACKING

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PERL Camel

# HACKING

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# HACKING

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Open Source Log

# HACKING

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So what is hacker’s logo?

# HACKING

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But what is hacking in its real sense?

# HACKING

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• The Glider

• The mathematical game – The Game of Life.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Emblem

# HACKING

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# HACKER DEFINED

HACKER (Originally, someone who makes

furniture with an Ax.

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• Someone involved in computer

security/insecurity

• An enthusiastic home computer hobbyist

# HACKER

• A programmer(ing) culturethat originated in US academiain the 1960’s - nowadays closelyrelated with open source / freesoftware.

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• Started off – MIT – Late 1950’s

• Tech Model Rail Road club of MIT

• Donated old telephone equipment

• They re-worked & re-created a complex system

that allowed multiple operators to control

different parts of the track by dialing into the

appropriate sections.

# HISTORY OF HACKING

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# hacking & open source

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They called this new and inventive use of

telephone equipment hacking

# THEY CALLED IT HACKING

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• The conventional boundaries were broken also

at MIT Rail Road Club.

# HACKER EVOLUTION

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• Often known as “Programmer's programmer”

• Creator of Ghostscript, Open Source

implementation of the PostScript language.

• Founder of Aladdin Enterprises

• Authored or co-authored various RFCs - RFC

190, RFC 446, RFC 550, RFC 567, RFC 606, RFC

1950, RFC 1951 and RFC 1952

# DO YOU KNOW HIM?

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• Dr. L. Peter Deutsch

• Started programming at the age of 11.

• He was accepted to the MIT Rail Road club at

the age of 12 when he demonstrated his

knowledge of the TX-0 and his desire to learn.

# DO YOU KNOW HIM?

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• Fully transistorized computer

• Transistorized Experimental computer zero

• TX-0 - affectionately referred to as tixo

(pronounced "tix oh")

# TX-0

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• Age

• Race,

• Gender,

• Appearance,

• Academic degrees, and

• Social status were defied in search for freeinformation

# SHORT-PANT HACKER

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Know the difference between a cracker and a

hacker.

# HACKING

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Cracking – Criminal Hacking

• Pirated Software - Objectives

• Opening your doors for the attackers

CRACKING & PIRACY

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Flooding the bandwidth of the victim's network

so that he cannot use the internet or other

services

or

Spamming the victim mail box

DENIAL OF SERVICE (DOS)

ATTACKS

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• DoS Attacks possible at the application layer.

• Succeed by starving a system of critical

resources, vulnerability exploit, or abuse of

functionality.

• DoS at the application layer may target the

web server, database server or an

authentication server

DENIAL OF SERVICE

ATTACKS

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DO YOU KNOW?

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DO YOU KNOW?

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• Megaupload Limited

• Used to provide file hosting / storing and

viewing services.

• Hong Kong Based - started in 2005

• Founder – Kim Dotcom

• Domain name seized and shut down by US

on 19 Jan 2012.

WWW.MEGAUPLOAD.COM

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DO YOU KNOW?

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• The shut down led to a DoS attacks on

websites belonging to US Govt and

Copyright organizations.

• Anonymous Launches #OpMegaupload,

"Largest Attack Ever on Government and

Music Industry Sites"

• In Retaliation for Action Against

Megaupload.Com

WWW.MEGAUPLOAD.COM

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• #OpMegaupload - Anonymous used Low

Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) to take its targets

offline is the

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/

LOIC

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• DoS - Simple DoS

• DDoS – Distributed Denial of Service Attack

• DRDoS – Distributed Reflective Denail of

Service Attack.

TYPES OF DOS

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• Malware

• Spyware

• Adware

• Scareware

• Scamware

• Virus

• Worm

• Trojan

MALWARE FAMILY

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MOBILE MAINFRAME &

MALWARE

• 15 millions cell phones sold a month.

• 509 million cell phones in use

• Larger than US as a telephone market95

• Spreading via Bluetooth, MMS & Sending SMS messages

• Infecting files and Stealing data

• Enabling remote control of the smartphone

• Installing "fake" or non-working fonts and applications

• Combating antivirus programs

• Installing other malicious programs

• Locking memory cards

MOBILE MAINFRAME &

MALWARE

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• Spreading via removable media (memory sticks)

• Damaging user data

• Disabling operating system security mechanisms

• Downloading other files from the Internet

• Calling paid services

• Polymorphism

MOBILE MAINFRAME &

MALWARE

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MOBILE MAINFRAME &

MALWARE

Source: http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis?pubid=204792080

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MOBILE MAINFRAME &

MALWARE

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MOBILE CRIMES

• PAN – Blue-Tooth

• Switch it off when not in use – why?

• Insecure,

• Used for Pairing

• Can be used for something which you can’t

even think of……

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MOBILE PHONE CRIMES

• What is 11/3 or 11-M

• Series of coordinated bombings against the

Cercanías (commuter train) system of Madrid,

Spain on the morning of 11 March 2004 (three

days before Spain's general elections), killing

191 people and wounding 1,755

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11/3 or 11-M

• Mobile phones wereused.

• Do not allow strangersto make calls from yourmobile – your phonecould be detonating abomb.

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• 3 Information required for payment

• Credit Card Number

• Expiry Date

• Card Verification Value Code (CVV)

CREDIT CARD FRAUDS

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• Used to steam credit card information

• Easily available in the black market for cheap

rates

SKIMMERS

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• Hotel – Access Cards

• Booking and Stay Info.

• May also provide the attacker:

• Address / Identify Proof

• Credit Card Details

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SMART CARDS

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• One computer in the network acting as

another to gain access to other resources on the

network

SPOOFING

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• Pornography - The first consistently successful

ecommerce product.

• Case Study - Bazee.com – CEO Arrest

• We all are responsible

PORNOGRAPHY

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• Sexual attraction to children by an adult

PEDOPHILES

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When chat rooms are used for carrying out

Digital Attacks and Cyber crimes.

• Hackers & Criminals meeting and attacking

• Cyber stalking – giving phone numbers

publically

• https://opindia.posterous.com/pages/anony

mous-irc

CHAT CRIMES

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•Phishing

•Smishing

•Vishing

***SHING

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• Technique of pulling out confidential

information from the bank/financial institutional

account holders by deceptive means

PHISHING

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PHISHING

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PHISHING

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PHISHING

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PHISHING

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PHISHING

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PHISHING

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SMISHING

• SMiShing is a security attack in which the user

is tricked into downloading a Trojan horse, virus

or other malware onto his cellular phone or

other mobile device.

• SMiShing is short for "SMS phishing."

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VISHING

• Vishing is the criminal practice of using social

engineering and Voice over IP (VoIP) to gain

access to private personal and financial

information from the public for the purpose of

financial reward.

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• Copying / Encrypting the company's

confidential data in order to extort huge money

NET EXTORTION

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• Cyber Stalking - The criminal follows the victim by

sending mails, entering chat rooms, etc

• Cyber Defamation -disgruntled employee, ex-boy

friend against girls, divorced husbands against wife

• Cyber Threatening - Sends threatening emails /

messages to the victim.

CYBER STALKING

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• Criminal makes insignificant changes in such a

manner that such changes would go unnoticed.

SALAMI ATTACK

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• Narcotic Sale - Sale of banned drugs through

the internet.

• Endangered Species / Animals – Sale through

internet.

• Other Banned items like Elephant Trunks ,

Skins of animals likes Leopard / Tiger, etc

SALE OF BANNED ITEMS

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• Mail claiming you will get money

NIGERIAN SCAM

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DUMPSTER DIVING

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DUMPSTER DIVING

• Practice of sifting through commercial or

residential trash to find items that have been

discarded by their owners, but which may be

useful to the attacker.

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WAR DRIVING

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WAR DRIVING

• Also called access point mapping

• The act of locating and possibly exploiting

connections to wireless LANs while driving

around a city or elsewhere.

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WAR DRIVING

• You need

• a vehicle,

• a laptop,

• a wireless Ethernet card (promiscuous

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ATTACK ON NETWORK

SERVICES

Some of the common network services /

protocols:

• FTP

• SSH

• LDAP

• SMTP

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CRYPTOGRAPHIC ATTACKS

• Attack on cryptographic systems.

• Example: Cold Boot Attack

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CLOUD BASED ATTACKS

• One of the best platform for launching an

attack.

• Power

• Certain level of anonymity

• Scalability

• A 64 node Linux cluster can be online in just

five minutes

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