CIS 115

Lecture 22: Cybersecurity Topics

Authentication

• Ownership Factors - user has
  ID card, badge, token
• Knowledge Factors - user knows
  PIN, password, response
• Inherence Factors - user is
  Biometrics

Cracking Passwords - Brute Force

• aaaaaa
• aaaaab
• aaaaac
• aaaaad
• aaaaae
• aaaaaf
• aaaaag
• aaaaah
• aaaaai
• aaaaaj
• aaaaak
• aaaaal
• aaaaam
• aaaaan
• aaaaao
• aaaaap
• aaaaaq
• aaaaar
• aaaaas
• aaaaat
• aaaaau

Cracking Passwords - Lookup Table

• password
• 123456
• 12345678
• abc123
• qwerty
• monkey
• letmein
• dragon
• 111111
• baseball
• iloveyou
• trustno1
• 1234567
• sunshine
• master
• 123123
• welcome
• shadow
• ashley
• football
• jesus

Source: Gizmodo

Rainbow Tables

Storing Passwords Securely

Store the password itself

• Needed to compromise: database access
• Accounts compromised: all
• Relative ease: simple

Storing Passwords Securely

Encrypt all passwords with a key

• Needed to compromise: database & key (or lookup table)
• Accounts compromised: all
• Relative ease: medium

Password Salt

• Random data added to a password before hashing
• Protects against dictionary and rainbow table attacks
• Ensures the password is long enough to be hard to crack

Storing Passwords Securely

Encrypt all passwords with a global salt value

• Needed to compromise: database, encryption key & salt value
• Accounts compromised: all
• Relative ease: harder

Storing Passwords Securely

Encrypt all passwords with a unique salt value

• Needed to compromise: database, encryption key & salt value
• Accounts compromised: one at a time
• Relative ease: really hard

Social Engineering

Using techniques to compromise a system by exploiting the users directly instead of the system's security

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Phishing

419 Scams

• Section 419 of Nigeria's Criminal Code
• Advance-fee fraud
• Pay a small sum of money now, they transfer a you large sum of money later

419 Scams

Combating Social Engineering

• User Training
• Security Protocols and Audits
• Always Questioning Everything
• Penetration Testing
• Properly Disposing of Garbage

Social Engineering in Practice

• "Capture the Flag" style contest held at DEF CON 21
• Contestant try to gain information about companies via the internet
• Using that information, they call the company and attempt to gain more information flags for points

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Man in the Browser Attack

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Combating Interception Attacks

• Public Key Authentication
• Mutual Authentication
• Latency Examination
• Second Channel Verification

Malware

• Virus
• Ransomware
• Trojans / Worms
• Rootkits
• Keyloggers
• Spyware
• Adware
• Fake Security Software

Morris Worm

• Intended to study the size of the internet
• Caused machines to overload and fail
• Infected 6000 machines (10% of the internet)
• First major worm on the internet

Morris Worm

• Infected machines even if they were already infected 1 out of 7 times
• Many machines infected multiple times
• Creator sentenced to 3 years probation and paid $10,000 fine

Conficker

• January 2009 - 9-15 million infected
• Fix released in October 2008, but 30% of PCs didn't have it installed by Jan 2009
• Mid 2011 - 1.7 million infected
• Many government and corporate networks infected

Stuxnet

• Designed to infect Siemens SCADA systems
• Only targets systems doing a very specific job
• Sends faulty data to the controller while presenting fake data to the user

Cryptolocker

• Installed via a malicious email attachment
• Communicates with a server to receive a 2048-bit RSA public key
• Encrypts documents with public key and holds them ransom
• Current ransom: 2 bitcoins (~$300)

SQL Injection

statement := "SELECT * FROM userinfo
               WHERE id = " + a_variable + ";”
a_variable = “1”
SELECT * FROM userinfo WHERE id=1;

SQL Injection

statement := "SELECT * FROM userinfo
               WHERE id = " + a_variable + ";”
a_variable = “1”
SELECT * FROM userinfo WHERE id=1;


statement := "SELECT * FROM userinfo
               WHERE id = " + a_variable + ";”
a_variable = “1;DROP TABLE users;”
SELECT * FROM userinfo WHERE id=1;DROP TABLE users;

SQL Injection

http://books.example.com/showReview.php?ID=5 
SELECT * FROM bookreviews WHERE ID = '5';

SQL Injection

http://books.example.com/showReview.php?ID=5 
SELECT * FROM bookreviews WHERE ID = '5';


http://books.example.com/showReview.php?ID=5 AND 1=1
SELECT * FROM bookreviews WHERE ID = '5' AND '1'='1';

SQL Injection

http://books.example.com/showReview.php?ID=5 
SELECT * FROM bookreviews WHERE ID = '5';


http://books.example.com/showReview.php?ID=5 AND 1=1
SELECT * FROM bookreviews WHERE ID = '5' AND '1'='1';

http://books.example.com/showReview.php?ID=5 AND substring(@@version,1,1)=4
SELECT * FROM bookreviews WHERE ID = '5' AND substring(@@version,1,1)=4;

Account Access

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Discussion

• You discovered that there are thousands of devices on the web with an easily exploitable vulnerability on them.
• The devices themselves can’t do much other than scan other devices and infect them with the same program.
• You decide to use them to map the entire internet just to see what is out there, and end up with a database of every IP and common open port on the internet.

Is that ethical? Is that legal?
Is that useful information?
Should you be put in jail for this?

It actually happened!

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Results of the Scan