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Security Psychology Topics Weve Covered Ethics Distributed Systems (and attacks thereof) XSS CSRF SQL injection Most of these attacks are enabled by social engineering. Todays Class Pretexting Phishing

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Security Psychology

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Topics We’ve Covered

  • Ethics
  • Distributed Systems (and attacks thereof)
  • XSS
  • CSRF
  • SQL injection
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Most of these attacks are enabled by social engineering.

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Today’s Class

  • Pretexting
  • Phishing
  • People vs. Computers
  • How this relates back to the other topics
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Verizon Breach Report (2017)

  • 1,616 incidents, 828 with confirmed data disclosure
  • Web Applications Attacks, Cyber-Espionage and Everything Else

represent 96% of all security breaches involving social attacks

  • 99% External, 1% Internal, <1% Partner (breaches)
  • 66% Financial, 33% Espionage, <1% Grudge (breaches)
  • 61% Credentials, 32% Secrets, 8% Personal
  • 43% of breaches involved social engineering
  • 93% phishing
  • 5% pretexting
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Verizon Breach Report (2017)

Breach Targets Compromised Data

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Pretexting

  • Pretending to be somebody you’re not to gain

access to a system

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Classic Pretexting

  • Impersonate CEO to trick an employee to transfer

money

  • particularly, their secretary
  • time crunch
  • etc
  • You’ve been selected for jury duty! Give me your

SSN.

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Kevin Mitnick

  • Age 13: Pretexting + dumpster diving to gain free

access to the bus system

  • Art of Deception (released right after he was

released from prison for wire fraud):

  • Pretend to be an employee’s colleague
  • Get employee to “help”
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HP Pretexting

  • HP boardroom leaks (2005)
  • Investigators called up phone companies,

pretending to be HP board members

  • Obtained call records
  • Charges against HP Chairman (at the time)

Patrician Dunn and other involved

  • most later dropped
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Protecting against Pretexting

  • Operational security (opsec)
  • Rules about limiting access
  • Train staff and explain rules
  • Hard. Senior people hard to change.
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Phishing

  • Pretending to be a corporation you’re not to gain

access to individual credentials to a system

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Phishing - VIBR

Click Through Rate

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Phishing

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Target Phishing

  • Spear phishing attack on HVAC firm
  • Stole credentials
  • Put malware on their computers
  • Spread to the rest of the system
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Target aftermath

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Targeted vs Untargeted

  • Targeted: want access to your organization
  • Untargeted: want access to banking credentials,

social media logins, etc.

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Protecting against Phishing

  • Operational security (opsec)
  • Email clients not allowing clicks on links
  • Not downloading attachments
  • Not answering the phone for numbers you don’t

recognize

  • Outbound firewall rules
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What people are bad at

  • Bad short term memory
  • 7 +/- 2 choices at once
  • Capture errors
  • Click “OK” without reading
  • Post-completion errors
  • forget ATM card in machine
  • Following the wrong rule
  • look for a lock symbol
  • Don’t understand
  • many many things
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What people are good at

  • Image recognition
  • CAPTCHAs
  • Understanding speech