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I’m a Suit in a Cyber

World!

October 2011

Twitter: #cybergamut

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Employment History

Financial Services

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Employment History

Financial Services

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Employment History

Ski Bum

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Employment History

Ski Bum

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Employment History

USAF Officer

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Employment History

USAF Officer

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Employment History

SAIC

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Employment History

SAIC Program Manager

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Employment History

SAIC Program Manager

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Employment History

SAIC Division Manager

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Employment History

SAIC Division Manager

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Employment History

SAIC Capture Manager

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Employment History

SAIC Capture Manager

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Education History

King CollegeBA Economics & Business

Administration

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Education History

King CollegeBA Economics & Business

Administration

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Education History

Chartered Life Underwriter

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Education History

Chartered Life Underwriter

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Education History

UMD EuropeBowie State University

MS Management Information Systems

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Education History

UMD EuropeBowie State University

MS Management Information Systems

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Education History

PMP

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Education History

PMP

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Education History

GCIH

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Education History

GCIH

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Large Cyber Procurements

SAIC Capture Manager

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Large Cyber Procurements

> $250,000,000

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Introduction to

cybergamut

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History and Why Change• In 2008 SAIC established cybernexus

– Coming together or “nexus” of cyber analysts– Central Maryland

• In 2011 cybernexus renamed cybergamut– Runs the “gamut” of cyber disciplines– Global organization

• cybergamut nodes– Socorro, New Mexico– Sioux Falls, South Dakota– San Antonio, Texas– Northern Virginia (Tysons Corner and Herndon)

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Mission Statement

cybergamut is a worldwide community of practice for cyber professionals across industry, academia, and government providing ongoing education, training, and certification opportunities throughout all phases of a cyber professional’s career, utilizing traditional methods as well as non-traditional techniques like puzzles, Easter Eggs, and problem solving.

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Easter Eggs

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Easter Eggs (eeggs.com)

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Challenge Cards

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Challenge Coin

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Technical Tuesday

• What it is – a technical exchange

• What it is not– A sales presentation– A product endorsement– For discussion of procurements – For discussion of procurement related issues

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PDU and CPE

• PMI PDU’s– PMI Baltimore approved most Technical Tuesday

events as eligible for PMI PDU’s under Category B, Continuing Education

• CPE’s for CISSP– Self certification

• Other certifications– What do you need?

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Previous Topics• Defending a Large Network

– Brian Rexroad of AT&T– 2 Dec 2008

• DNI Essentials– Paul Schnegelberger of SAIC and John Sanders of

Northrop Grumman TASC– Nov/Dec 2008

• Digital Forensics– Jim Jaeger of General Dynamics– 13 Jan 2009

• Case Studies in Cyber Attacks – Aaron Wilson of SAIC– 13 Jan 2009

• Trickler– Greg Virgin of RedJack– 27 Jan 2009

• Security Tools– Peiter “Mudge” Zatko of BBN– 27 Jan 2009

• IPv6– David Harris of SAIC– 10 Feb 2009

• Exploitation Prediction – Darryl Ackley of New Mexico Tech– 24 Feb 2009

• Analytic and IO Tools– Clift Briscoe and Nat Cooper of Edge– 24 Mar 2009

• Distributed Systems Technologies and Internet Intelligence

– George Economou of Akamai– 24 Mar 2009

• Exploring the Social World of the Russian Hacker Community

– Tom Holt of Michigan State University– 10 Mar 2009

• Modern Forensic Investigative Techniques – Amber Schroader of Paraben– 10 Mar 2009

• Defending Against BGP Man-In-The-Middle Attacks

– Earl Zmijewski of Renesys– 14 Apr 2009

• Examining the Storm Worm– Nico Lacchini of TDI– 26 May 2009

• No-Tech Hacking– Johnny Long– 11 Jun 2009

• Dirty Secrets of the Security Industry– Bruce Potter of Ponte Technologies– 14 Jul 2009

• Windows Forensic Analysis: Dissecting the Windows Registry

– Rob Lee of MANDIANT and the SANS Institute– 18 Aug 2009

• Silence of the RAM– Sean Bodmer of Savid Corporation– 22 Sep 2009

• VoIP Security - Attacks, Threats and Countermeasures

– Stuart McLeod of Global Knowledge– 3 Nov 2009

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Previous Topics cont.• A Tale of Two Departments – How Commerce

and State Dealt With Chinese Intrusions: Lessons Learned Plus: Security Heroes and the 20 Critical Controls

– Alan Paller of the SANS Institute– 9 Mar 2010

• Aurora– Aaron Barr of HBGary Federal– 27 Apr 2010

• Malware reverse engineering at ITT – Paul Frank of ITT– 25 May 2010

• Advanced Cyber Collection Techniques; Extracting and Analyzing Information from the Domain Name System

– Tim Cague of The CYAN Group– 10 Aug 2010

• The Rise of the Social Web – Aaron Barr of HBGary Federal– 5 Oct 2010

• Why Security People S#ck – Gene Bransfield of Tenacity Solutions– 9 Nov 2010

• Insider Threat and Real-World Incident Study– Presented by Michael Collins & Greg Virgin of

RedJack along with Jim Downey of DISA PEO-MA– 30 Nov 2010

• Network Monitoring– Josh Goldfarb of 21st Century Technologies– 4 Jan 2011

• Network Device Exploitation with Universal Plug & Play

– Terry Dunlap of Tactical Network Solutions– 8 Feb 2011

• Deep Packet Inspection for Cybersecurity ASW&R

– Jeff Kuhn of Pangia Technologies– 29 Mar 2011

• Stuxnet Redux: Malware Attribution & Lessons Learned

– Tom Parker of Securicon – 19 Apr 2011

• Special Technical Tuesday and renaming– 10 May 2011

• APT Intrusion Remediation: The Top Do's and Don'ts

– Rob Lee of MANDIANT and The SANS Institute– 24 May 2011

• Deep Packet Inspection– Peder Jungck of Cloudshield and SAIC– 28 Jun 2011

• Our Security Status is Grim– Brian Snow– 19 Jul 2011

• Cellular Security– Jason MacLulich of Endace– 9 Aug 2011

• Government Cyber Technical Directors’ Panel– 30 Aug 2011

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Upcoming Technical Tuesdays• Hacking Windows 7 and defending against physical attacks

– 18 Oct 2011– Jesse Varsalone

• Looking for more speakers and topics such as:– Tor routing– Malware reverse engineering– Cyber situational awareness– Splunk– Cloud computing and cloud forensics– Geolocation of IP addresses and mobile devices– Digital forensics– E-discovery– Attack attribution– Deep packet inspection– Fuzzing– Writing secure code

To suggest topics, volunteer to speak, or to receive an invitation, please contact: scott.w.sheldon@saic.com

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Interesting Topics from the Chief 5uit’s Perspective

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Remember!

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Dash

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Foreign Language

• 1337 = LEET = short for elite (maybe)– 5uit = Suit

• Pwn = Own– Your computer has been pwned

• Teh = the– Accidents become purposeful– This was before spell checkers – hard to do now

• Texting– LOL– ROFL– - OMG Powerpoint translated : and ) to this

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Different Culture

• 95% male• Black T-shirts• Interesting facial hair• Body art• Add alcohol and mix vigorously• Stickers everywhere• Lock picking for fun (lock sport)• Hackers aren’t all Bad

– I Hack Charities• As a 5uit, I’m counter-counter-culture

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Pure evil

• Wireless diabetes pump exploit

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Pure evil – or is it?

• Wireless diabetes pump exploit

• Exploit released by a pump user• Wants manufacturer to fix the problem

• This is typical of many of the things released

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Bot in a Botnet

• What’s a Bot and what’s a Botnet?– Computers that have been taken over– Used for distribution of Spam and Malware– Used for other nefarious deeds

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Bot in a Botnet

• What’s a Bot and what’s a Botnet?– Computers that have been taken over– Used for distribution of Spam and Malware– Used for other nefarious deeds

• Does your Mom care?

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Bot in a Botnet

• What’s a Bot and what’s a Botnet?– Computers that have been taken over– Used for distribution of Spam and Malware– Used for other nefarious deeds

• Does your Mom care?

• Do you care?

Digital Hygiene

You can’t Patch Stupid!!!

You can’t Patch Stupid!!!

Don’t be “Stupid”

Don’t use Reply All in a Mail

Storm!!!

You can’t Patch Stupid!!!

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Social Engineering

• Extremely effective

• DEFCON Social Engineering Contest– Amazing what people will give away– Help desks were overly helpful

Click OK to Continue

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Should I proceed?

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Should I proceed? I did!!!

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Phishing and Spearphishing

• E-mails and targeted e-mails– Usually with a link– Watch for typo’s and misspelllings

• V1AGRA

• [Insert company name here] has been sold!

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Classic Phishing – not Nigeria

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Phishing maybe???

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Phishing from GA – Bot??

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Spearphishing

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Corporate Response

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Another One!

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Phishing and Spearphishing

• E-mails and targeted e-mails– Usually with a link– Watch for typo’s and misspelllings

• V1AGRA

• [Insert company name here] has been sold!

• DEFCON Skybox Demo– Trend tracking via Twitter– Tracking an individual via Social Media– Tiny urls and Bit.ly

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GPS and other evil devices

• GPS, iPhones, etc remember everything

• iPhones sync EVERYTHING with their host

• Windows 7 Registry saves things a long time

• Forensics examiner’s dream

• Car thieves “Go Home”– You’re not home and now you’re stranded

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GPS and other evil devices

• GPS, iPhones, etc remember everything

• iPhones sync EVERYTHING with their host

• Windows 7 Registry saves things a long time

• Forensics examiner’s dream

• Car thieves “Go Home”– You’re not home and now you’re stranded

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Supply Chain

• Where was your code written?• Where was your hardware produced?• How did it get to you?

• Thumb drives• Hard drives

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X begets Y begets Z…• Needs beget innovation• Innovation begets technology• Policy and strategy follow

– aren’t necessarily “begotten”• Lack of policy begets ineffective or non-strategy• Doctrine is the military word for policy• Tactics are the refinement of military strategy• difference between responsibility and authority

– DHS has responsibilities– DoD has many clearly defined authorities

• National Cyber Policy is challenging– AFCEA story

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Steganography

• Stuff hidden in pictures• Stuff hidden in other non-obvious places

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Who votes for #1?

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Who votes for #2?

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Who votes for #3?

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Who votes for #4?

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Steganography

• Let’s check your votes . . .

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#1 Malamute???; not Malware

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#2

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#2 is Malodorous; not Malware

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#3 is Mal-wear; not Malware

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#4 is Malicious; not Malware

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Steganography

• None of those pictures– I don’t think anyway…

• Very hard to detect in a single picture– Potential detection if you have both pictures

50 KB 450 KB

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Other Scary/Cool Concepts

• Segmented polymorphic malware– Bad stuff that changes its looks, delivered in parts

• Metamorphic malware– Bad stuff that changes what it does

• Cloud Computing – distributed virtualization– Which denomination?

• Hadoop – son’s toy elephant– Cloud Security– Cloud Forensics

• Zero-day– Brand new malware or exploits

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Should I click?

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Social Networking

• “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”– New Yorker Magazine, 1993– Still true today

• Do you really know who your Friends are?– Would you cross the street to see them in person?– What are you revealing in your posts?

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Fake Profile???

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Social Networking

• “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”– New Yorker Magazine, 1993– Still true today

• Do you really know who your Friends are?– Would you cross the street to see them in person?– What are you revealing in your posts?

• “My Daddy’s dating…”• Twitter - #cybergamut

– Spontaneous and quick– No filter– No retraction after re-tweet

Need this

button

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Location-based Services

• Facebook Places and Foursquare• Preparation for Travel

– Set up light timers– Make your home look lived in

• “Check in” at out of state locations• Photo metadata• Okay for my Friends to know• What about Friends of Friends?

– What about Mafia Wars Friends of Friends?

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Facebook Places

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Clearly Out of Town

• Photo metadata

• Photo metadata

• Facebook actually removes the location information

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User Names and Passwords

• Anonymous and LULZ Sony Attacks– 77 million users affected

• Other large data thefts

• User Name and Password combinations– How many do you use?

– Remember the Bots?!?

– This got my attention!

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What do we do?

• I don’t know…

• I think education helps…

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Cyber Increases

• Volume

• Variety

• Velocity

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Cyber Increases

• Volume = 123 slides

• Variety

• Velocity

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Cyber Increases

• Volume = 123 slides

• Variety = 25 topics

• Velocity

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Cyber Increases

• Volume = 123 slides

• Variety = 25 topics

• Velocity = 1 hour = ~29 sec per slide

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That’s all we’ve got!