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ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

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Jonathan Duani

Attack of the Hack Back

October 17, 2017 by Jonathan Duani 2 Comments

This is a pretty interesting article about legislation that is coming up currently. This is because they are saying that is now legal for you to hack a person who is hacking into you. It could be more dangerous than the initial attack cause you are opening yourself up even more to this attacker by going in. What do you think? Do you think it is a bad idea?

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/10/hacking_back_the_worst_idea_in_cybersecurity_rises_again.html

Unpatched Exploit Lets You Clone Key Fobs and Open Subaru Cars

October 13, 2017 by Jonathan Duani 1 Comment

I thought this was super cool and since I own one of the affected years part of me really wants to build out what they are talking about and try it. ( i already have all the comments that are needed). This article talks about how there is an exploit in specific model year Subarus that can cause you to capture the FOB packets and then with a simple script  you are able to unlock and relock the car. Subaru claims they are aware of this issue but have no done anything about it. I also wanted to note that even though I do own one of the effected cars at this point nothing on that car is stock including the alarm so the chances of this actually working for myself are slim because the OEM system is bypassed but it is still cool to give it a try.

 

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/unpatched-exploit-lets-you-clone-key-fobs-and-open-subaru-cars/

Hacking the election: security flaws need fixing, researchers say

October 10, 2017 by Jonathan Duani 2 Comments

I thought this was a pretty interesting article. It speaks on the fact that there are many flaws in the current voting system and that they are fairly easily hack-able.  It talks about how at DefCon ( a hacking conference) Users were able to to hack into the machines in no time. According to the article though this is only the beginning of the problem.

 

Source: https://phys.org/news/2017-10-hacking-election-flaws.html

Installing Nessus on Kali

October 3, 2017 by Jonathan Duani Leave a Comment

Hey Guys,

Below is step by step instructions for installing Nessus on Kali

https://www.tenable.com/blog/getting-started-with-nessus-on-kali-linux

US pressured North Korea by overwhelming hackers with data traffic

October 2, 2017 by Jonathan Duani 4 Comments

Even though this is a rather short article I thought it was kind of interesting. It talks about how the US used a DDoS attacks against North Korea from March to September against is counter intelligence agency. It focused on the teams that conducted North Korea’s hacking. Even though it did not totally stop them it flooded them with so much traffic it caused most of them not to be able to do their job which the US then used as a bargaining chip to talk North Korea into doing things that they may not have done. I think it is a good example of how cyber ware is becoming bigger and bigger and soon wars may be fought in the cyber realm and not as much with boots on the ground.

 

 

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/01/us-launched-dos-attack-against-north-korea-hackers/

U.S. Asks China Not to Enforce Cyber Security Law

September 26, 2017 by Jonathan Duani 4 Comments

I thought this was a pretty interesting article because it pertains to stuff that we were discussing in class. The article discusses how the US would like china to not enforce their new policy that requires companies who do business with china to house all data in the country and also have security that is subject to checks.

I think that this is important because you need to know the local laws of the companies that you are working with. It is also important because if china does not listen to the US and enforces the polices a lot of companies will have to  rework a lot of their infrastructure and security in order to comply.

 

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2017-09-26/us-tells-wto-concerned-about-chinese-cyber-security-laws

How the NSA identified Satoshi Nakamoto

September 19, 2017 by Jonathan Duani Leave a Comment

This is a pretty interesting article that I found that even though it is a couple weeks old now I think that it still hold true and gives important information. The article talks about how the NSA sues langue to track identities of anonymous people, like Satoshi Nakamoto, the person who invented bitcoin. They use a lot of techniques that are actually not that new to trace back his origin and pin point who he really is. What is interesting is back in the late 90s this is part of the way that the FBI caught the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. They analysed his manifesto and published it and with the uniqueness of his language was able to find him. I thought this was interesting with us hacking different systems we all leave a trace or a something that is unique about us that sometimes we don’t even realize.

Source: https://medium.com/cryptomuse/how-the-nsa-caught-satoshi-nakamoto-868affcef595

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