Cyber Security Skills for the Real World
Cyber
Security Skills for the Real World
Hacking is a method of problem solving that combines resourcefulness,
logic, creativity, and study. Hacker Highschool helps teens learn hacking as a
method to figure out how things work (such as with the Scientific Method) and
to further learn by doing. Hacking is usefully applied in nearly all fields as
it builds upon what is known to create new things, foods, designs, etc. When
applied to computers and networks, it also teaches safety and security in a
world quickly drowning in information where to be safer teens today need to
know the facts from the fraud, the real from the fake, and the bad from the
good.
Hacker
Highschool is practical because security awareness has to be the continuing
practice of a skill and not just the continuous reminder of a threat. That's
why we need teens to actively take on real hacking attacks. Like a fire drill
or even driver education, students need real practice if they want to learn how
not to end up a victim.
ethical hacking
Ethical
hacking
Ethical
hacking and ethical hacker are terms that describe hacking performed to help a
company or individual identify potential threats on the computer or network. An
ethical hacker attempts to hack their way past the system security, finding any
weak points in the security that could be exploited by other hackers. The organization
uses what the ethical hacker finds to improve the system security, in an effort
to minimize, if not eliminate, any potential hacker attacks. In order for
hacking to be deemed ethical, the hacker must obey the below rules.
1. You have
permission to probe the network and attempt to identify potential security
risks. It is recommended that if you are the person performing the tests that
you get written consent.
2. You
respect the individual's or company's privacy and only go looking for security
issues.
3. You report
all security vulnerabilities you detect to the company, not leaving anything
open for you or someone else to come in at a later time.
4. You let
the software developer or hardware manufacturer know of any security vulnerabilities
you locate in their software or hardware if not already known by the company.
Professional hacker
Youngsters
are on the internet all the time need to know more about hacking, with
India being the preferred target of cyber attacks after the US and
China, said Sunny Vaghel, a professional hacker. He was at the Government College of Engineering for a three-day workshop on ethical hacking.
Vaghela said applications and software for cellphones and computers should be downloaded from reliable sources.
"If applications are downloaded from unauthorized sources, there is the
risk of private information being accessed by malicious code," Vaghela
said.
Around 100 students participated in the workshop from the computer science, information technology and electronics streams.
Vaghela said social networking made accessing data from someone else's
account very easy, posing a threat. He said there was the need for more
engineers to take up the job of securing the internet.
The
cyber crimes have increased by 280% in recent times, while people have
been convicted in only 2% of the cases. These issues should immediately
be taken to the cyber cell of the local police, Vaghela said.
He said more students should show interest in the field and universities should include it in the syllabus.
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Unauthorized access & Hacking:-
Unauthorized access & Hacking:-
Access means gaining entry into, instructing or communicating with the logical, arithmetical, or memory function resources of a computer, computer system or computer network.
Unauthorized access would therefore mean any kind of access without the permission of either the rightful owner or the person in charge of a computer, computer system or computer network.
Every act committed towards breaking into a computer and/or network is hacking. Hackers write or use ready-made computer programs to attack the target computer. They possess the desire to destruct and they get the kick out of such destruction. Some hackers hack for personal monetary gains, such as to stealing the credit card information, transferring money from various bank accounts to their own account followed by withdrawal of money.
By hacking web server taking control on another persons website called as web hijacking
Privacy
Privacy – One reason that many people are wary of uploading their photos or videos to a social networking site like Facebook is because they are concerned about retaining the copyright to their work. There is a major gray area as to who would own the materials that we upload. Someone who might be concerned about this might be a professional photographer or a musician who might want to share their work. Uploading photographs or music is a great way to get a lot of potential friends to notice it, but you might want to think about whether the network could end up owning this material. Another controversy with Facebook is that it could be sharing your private information with third party companies. This is why you are shown a privacy statement when you install an application. The providers of these applications are third party companies and websites who could be able to access your private information such as your address or phone number.
First commercial tool to crack BitLocker arrives (Updated)
First commercial tool to crack BitLocker arrives (Updated)
BitLocker Drive Encryption can now be successfully cracked with Passware Kit …
Passware, a software firm that provides password recovery, decryption, and evidence discovery software for computer forensics, has updated its flagship application this week to support breaking Microsoft's BitLocker hard drive encryption. Passware Kit Forensic version 9.5 can recover encryption keys for hard drives protected with BitLocker in just a few minutes. It scans a physical memory image file of the target computer and extracts all the encryption keys for a given BitLocker disk. As a result, Passware has crowned itself the creator of the first commercially available software to crack BitLocker Drive Encryption.
Passware claims that full disk encryption was a major problem for investigators and that its tool helps police, law enforcement, and private investigators bypass BitLocker encryption for seized computers. That may be, but since this is a commercially available product, anyone with $795 can now circumvent the encryption. Add to that the fact that previous versions of this software have been pirated (version 9.0 was released earlier this year), and it's only a matter of time before even the price point doesn't matter.
Passware Kit Forensic is a tool that can recover passwords from various file types, decrypt Microsoft Word and Excel files up to version 2003, and reset passwords for local and domain Windows administrators. It is a complete encrypted evidence discovery solution that reports all password-protected items on a computer and gains access to these items using the fastest decryption and password recovery algorithms at its disposal. There's also a portable version of the software that runs from a USB drive and finds encrypted files, plus recovers files and website passwords without making any changes to the target computer.
BitLocker Drive Encryption is a full disk encryption feature available in the Ultimate and Enterprise editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7, as well as the Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems. It is designed to protect data by providing encryption for entire volumes. By default, it uses the AES encryption algorithm in CBC mode with a 128 bit-key, combined with the Elephant diffuser for additional disk encryption security not provided by AES. It is meant to prevent a thief or thieves from using another operating system or hacking tool to get around file and system protections provided by Windows in order to view files stored on the drive.
Update
As pointed out in the comments, this isn't exactly a "crack" for BitLocker. Like most similar digital forensics analysis software, Passware Kit Forensic requires access to a physical memory image file of the target computer before it can extract all the encryption keys for a BitLocker disk. If a forensics analyst or thief has physical access to a running system, it is possible to take advantage of the fact that the contents are in the computer's memory. Other drive encryption programs have similar issues.