The New Revolution: 3-D Printers

There has been much discussion about 3-D printers lately. Although 3-D printer technology is still in the early stages, many security experts believe that advanced, large-scale 3-D printers will likely revolutionize the battlefield, if not the world. Robert Beckhusen of Wired’s Danger Room offers a perspective on some of the possibilities that 3-D printers might have on the modern-day warfare in his article In Tomorrow’s Wars, Battles Will Be Fought With a 3-D Printer. If you are unfamiliar with the subject of 3-D printers, this is a good place to start.

-by Ben Volcsko, Research Assistant

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Spam

Here at MCySec we receive a decent amount of spam every day, much like anyone who runs a blog with open commenting. All of this spam has been stopped by WordPress and Akismet from being displayed on our pages, This either says something about how good they are, or about how bad the spammers are, and I’m not entirely sure which.

So when I see an interesting message in the spam queue, i tend to give it a second look, just to get an idea of how this digital arms race is progressing, as far as spam detection and  counter detection goes. This recent message was one of the better ones. The spammer’s implementation broke, spitting out the entire message generation tree used to simulate natural language in order to produce messages that get around the detection software. Here it is in all of its broken goodness. -Dan Gifford, MCySec Media Manager

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Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Crime, and Terror

An excellent article by Michael J. Holt, a Professor of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, detailing the intersection of cybercrime and terrorism. As we know, criminals and terrorist share many commonalities, differing primarily in their motivation. However when it comes to the application of cyber means, both groups of actors have much overlap. Within Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Crime, and Terror, author Micheal Holt identifies the crossings of these groups and their overall impact upon cyber security.

– by Ben Volcsko, Research Assistant

Understanding How the Feds Handle Incident Response

Ever wondered how DHS, CYBERCOM and other federal cyber security agencies handle specific incident response? Well, you are in luck. Jason Healey, author of Above My Pay Grade – Incident Response at the National Level, explains the challenges and successes in tackling cyber incidents from the federal government’s perspective. Healey, director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Atlantic Council and creator of the first Computer Emergency Response Team that coordinated the response to incidents affecting the finance sector, provides an outstanding written account of the obstacles for today’s incident response handlers.

– by Ben Volcsko, Research Assistant

NSA operations in the World… of Warcraft.

A recent revelation from the Snowden leaks has disclosed the significant efforts by intelligence personnel to infiltrate supposed terrorist networks communicating over online games and virtual environments such as Linden Lab’s Second Life, Blizzard/Activision’s World of Warcraft title, and Microsoft’s XBOX Live service. The spying operations were apparently based on concerns within security circles that these online environments could be used by enemy parties to communicate in an obscure way, and the limited security and hardening of these platforms presented a significant collection opportunity for intelligence agencies.

While Blizzard issued a flat denial of any cooperation with intelligence collection or of opening backdoors for spies in World of Warcraft, Linden Labs and Microsoft both declined to comment. Given recent revelations about the scope of private cooperation with spy agencies, declining to comment often raises more questions that it answers, and may indicate the presence of a secret legal gag order. Additionally, the CTO of Linden Labs had previously held a Top Secret clearance and served with the Navy on detachment to the NSA at Fort Meade, and would later present at a brown bag lunch at the NSA on the opportunities present in virtual worlds.

Apparently there were so many NSA and GCHQ operatives playing in these virtual worlds on the taxpayer dime that it became necessary to stand up a deconfliction group to ensure that the agents were not simply chasing their own tails and spying on each other’s collection efforts. However, there is no evidence that collection on gaming environments actually foiled any terrorist plots or provided usedful intelligence on terrorist operations. This quibble aside, GCHQ also noted opportunities beyond communications collection in their online operations, identifying foreign government professionals that they intended to target for recruitment in something of a virtual human intelligence program.

 

Dan Gifford – MCySec Media Manager

Healthcare.gov Gets Fuzzed Amid General Condemnation by Security Professionals

As the flagship effort of President Obama’s terms in office, and a massive new repository of personal financial and medical information, Healthcare.gov was already a huge cyber attack target before the site even went live. The technical difficulties many users have experienced have been mostly due to inadequate testing during the site’s development, however, there are signs of very severe cyber attacks on the horizon.

A recent House hearing on security vulnerabilities on the website ended with the panel of experts; including Morgan Wright, CEO of Crowd Sourced Investigations; Fred Chang of Southern Methodist University; Avi Rubin of John’s Hopkins University; and David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSEC, all declaring it was unsafe for Americans to trust their personal data to the website in its current form, and three of the four saying that the website should be pulled immediately and the implementation of the healthcare program delayed in order to address the website security issues.

Recently an implementation problem in the site’s search bar autocomplete function was revealing the ongoing “fuzzing” attacks being made on the site’s forms and databases.  A “fuzzing” attack is part of a technique called SQL injection, wherein an attacker uses the outward facing elements of a website, such as forms that feed into the site’s databases, to input commands to the database, potentially revealing or deleting confidential data. The autocomplete issue has been solved, however the attacks are certainly ongoing, with an unknown level of success.

The bottom line of this entire incipient misadventure is that website initiatives, especially ones that are juicy targets for political and personal data reasons, must be designed with security in mind first and foremost, and extensive security testing must be employed before the sites and their vulnerabilities are released on an unsuspecting public.

Dan Gifford – MCySec Media Manager