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2 An Introduction to Cyber Dr Mark Hawksworth Technology Practice Group Leader

3 Who carries out “Cyber Crime” Why have Cyber incidents become so prevalent Social Engineering Case Studies for some common Cyber incidents Recent high profile Cyber incidents

4 Who carries out Cyber Crime?  Skilled individuals  Organised Crime  Corporate Espionage  Insider threats  Hacktivists  State sponsored attacks

5 The nature of the risk has changed from individuals seeking notoriety / kudos to criminals presenting a targeted advanced persistent threat Network infrastructures can contain thousands of applications, delivering different functions, including interaction with external systems

6 Why is Cyber profiling now?  The Onion Ring “TOR”  Digital currency  Web pages selling illegal goods / data

7 The Onion Ring  Gives anonymity on-line  Actual address is masked using relays  Can be used to set up anonymous accounts  No source if unsecured domestic WiFi is used

8 Wardriving Wardriving is the act of searching for open Wi-Fi wireless networks by a person in a moving vehicle, using a portable computer, smartphone or personal digital assistant (PDA).

9 Digital Currency  Decentralised  Transactions held in a public register  Interchangeable with tangible currency  Bitcoin value $1 in 2010 to $100 in 2013

10 Social Engineering – “Hacking the Human”  Hackers toolkits use different methods  Applications, Adverts and Malware  Passwords

11 Case Studies  Crypto Viruses  Virtualisation  Denial of Service Attack  Network Breach

12 Denial of Access  Botnets can be hired out  There is no physical damage to the target  Substantial BI impact for on-line traders  100 Gb per second

13 Keylogger Breach  USB Amazon £40  No administration rights required  Key strokes saved in flash memory  User name and password can be read

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