16 Jul 2011
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Employment History
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Employment History
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Employment History
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Employment History
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Employment History
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Employment History
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Employment History
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Employment History
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Employment History
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Education History
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Education History
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Education History
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Education History
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Education History
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Education History
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Education History
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Education History
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Large Cyber Procurements
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Large Cyber Procurements
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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
– San Antonio, Texas
– Northern Virginia (Tysons Corner and Herndon)
– Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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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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cybergamut Nodes
• Established node
– San Antonio
– Northern Virginia (Tysons Corner and Herndon)
– Sioux Falls, SD
• Node requirements (as of now)
– Open and accessible to all
• Industry, academia, and government
– Room for at least 20 people
• Computer, projector, conference phone
– Guarantee at least five people in the room
• In case someone else shows up so they’re not uncomfortable
• Future nodes - ???
– San Diego, CA
– Rome, NY
– Atlanta, GA
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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
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Previous Topics cont.
• 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
• 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
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Upcoming Technical Tuesdays
• 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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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?
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Social Engineering
• Extremely effective
• DEFCON Social Engineering Contest
– Amazing what people will give away
– Help desks were overly helpful
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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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What about this one?
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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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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
– Spontaneous and quick
– No filter / no retraction
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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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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?
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• Volume
• Variety
• Velocity
Cyber Increases
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Cyber Increases
• Volume = 111 slides
• Variety
• Velocity
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Cyber Increases
• Volume = 111 slides
• Variety = 21 topics
• Velocity
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Cyber Increases
• Volume = 111 slides
• Variety = 21 topics
• Velocity = 1 hour = <33 sec per slide
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That’s all we’ve got!
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