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detection: New attack vectors and vulnerabilities are discovered every day. As previously discussed firewalls, IDS and Intrusion Protection Systems (IPS) hunt for malicious activity at various points across the network from the perimeter to endpoints. Taking the search to another level, a SIEM solution has the capability to detect zero-day attacks. This capability can detect activity associated with an attack rather than the attack itself such as a well-crafted spear-phishing attack using a zero-day

Intro This paper will be on the book The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick. I will be exclusively summarizing Chapter 3: The Direct Attack: Just Asking for It. First, for a slight background on the author Kevin Mitnick, he is known for being the most famous hacker ever. He used dumpster diving and social engineering to get information from some of the largest companies and he would use passwords and codes to gain access. He has been arrested multiple times the most famous in 1995 after a well-publicized

force upon our nation and nations worldwide, which is made evident by the various, brutal attacks they have executed. Moreover, ISIS is a strong worldwide threat that has been increasing its power globally throughout their reign. According to CNN, there have been 143 documented ISIS attacks within 29 separate countries, resulting in countless casualties of people worldwide. One known example is the recent attack in Paris and Brussels where “at least five

a statement from a former Gaza-based Islamic state militant, and he claims that the mosque attack proves that Muslims are part of a global crusade. Breitbart held an interview with the man and asked him questions relating to the recent mosque shooting in Canada. The interviewee’s full name was Abu Baker Almaqdesi and he fought for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Here is a comment from the man, “Attacks on mosques are nothing new. Every day, the planes of the United States-led coalition bomb mosques

be introduced into the companies system. The attack vector for this vulnerability occurs through an injection of malware that occurs through email attachments, chat rooms, Trojan programs that lead to the loss or corruption of existing data, or system impacts such as

The technique can detect DDoS attacks as well and blocking complete botnets (Amna Riaz 2017). However, NIDS is going to face issues processing all packets in large virtual network and it may fail to detect attacks in time as SNORT is single threaded. Another solution that has been studied is Virtual Machine Introspection (VMI) based technique (Amna Riaz 2017). Virtual machine introspection (VMI) is the main idea behind out-of-box intrusion detection. VMI is a technique of inspecting VM state by

air forces in neighboring countries. They do this to protect the inside forces of troops and clears out a root for them to attack. They did this type of tactic during the Persian Gulf War when we sent aircraft carriers into the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean and set up air forces and troops in the neighboring countries to set up an attack. We later launched sea and air attacks to weaken the forces in Iraq. We need these forces surrounding the area to launch missions to kill or damage the powerful

organizations are beginning to look at dwell time as a barometer of healthy enterprise security. Today’s advanced attackers gravitate to “low signal” incursions that bypass perimeter defense and are difficult to detect. They frequently employ multiple attack vectors hidden within, or alongside, legitimate activity, then move laterally to more critical systems. The attacker will escalate his/her privileges, leverage built-in tools that

Balancing Cost and Risk in the SOC Every professional working in a security operations center understands that attacks are on the rise. Criminals who steal credit card numbers to resell on the dark web, hackers who launch ransomware attacks, industrial spies seeking to steal intellectual properties and state-sponsored hackers who seem to have diverse reasons for selecting their targets have all become much more adept at penetrating security measures. The financial cost of these breaches is shocking

data of 70 million Target customers. The intruders slipped in by using stolen credentials and from there gained access to vulnerable servers on Targets network to launch their attack and steal sensitive customer data from the POS cash registers. All this occurred without a response from Targets security operations center, even though security systems notified them of suspicious activity. The data was then sold on the black market for an estimated $53 million dollars. However, the cost to Target