Teens from Fergus are among the youngest cyber security experts in the country. For the third year in a row, students from Centre Wellington District High School in Fergus will be competing against teams from across the country in the international cyber security competition for high school students, Cyber Titan. The senior team ranked third in Canada and 44th in the world this year, a feat that didn’t really surprise them. “We work really well together. We study hard. We practice. Communication is a big part. And we just work really well together as a team. And we know our stuff,” said Edward Noel. Rachel Routly, who was on the all-female team called the Terabytches last year, is now on the mixed-gender senior team. She says all the team members are in the same grade and have classes together, which helps them mesh. She adds, “it’s good to prove that girls can do well when they’re not only on a girls’ team.” Edward Noel was on the senior team last year and says he’s excited about the team’s chances this year. “This team is actually, like, passionate about cyber security,” he said. “The passion combined with the teamwork and the mentality coming in, like, you know, I want to be the best in the world. It’s, like, yeah, that’s what gets you the win.” Get youth thinking about cyber security It’s that passion and drive to learn about cyber security that is also exciting to people in the industry who hope to one day recruit young minds. Kathryn Hodge at the cyber security company eSentire in Waterloo says their firm often focuses on...
The objective was simple – see how susceptible the organization is from an external point of view and test the effectiveness of the security controls that are managed enterprise-wide. As such, asides, the company name, we were given “ZERO” information to perform an external black-box penetration Testing. This black-box external penetration Testing Performing with a by a client called (Hackme) OSINT 101 We kicked off with some Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) 101 :). There are quite a number of open source intelligence tools – to assist in gathering emails, subdomains, hosts, employee names, etc from different public sources like search engines and shodan. There is an exhaustive list of such awesome tools here . Using quite a few open source intelligence tools, we obtained publicly available documents relating to the organization using Black-box Penetration Testing methods. With Google dork to the rescue, we ran some basic search strings: “site:*.hackme.com ext:xls OR ext:docx OR ext:pptx” . Of course, our aim was not to tirelessly search for documents. Rather, our objective was to understand the organization’s naming schema by examining the metadata of the documents which is found in the “properties section” of the document (most especially Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel). One can also use FOCA for this. From this, I noticed that employees emails followed a particular naming convention – the first letter of the firstname + surname @ domain.com i.e. [email protected]. Armed with this knowledge, we forked out from LinkedIn the list of all current employees of Hackme using the following google dork syntax: site:linkedin.com -inurl:dir “at Hackme” “Current”. A typical example is shown below using Google Inc as a...
We are data scientists—that is, our job is to understand how to analyze and interpret data. When we analyze the data around covid-19, we are very concerned. The most vulnerable parts of society, the elderly and the poor, are most at risk, but controlling the spread and impact of the disease requires us all to change our behavior. Wash your hands thoroughly and regularly, avoid groups and crowds, cancel events, and don’t touch your face. In this post, we explain why we are concerned, and you should be too. For an excellent summary of the key information you need to know, read Corona in Brief by Ethan Alley (the president of a non-profit that develops technologies to reduce risks from pandemics). Translations Anyone is welcome to translate this article, to help their local communities understand these issues. Please link back to here with appropriate credit. Let us know on Twitter so we can add your translation to this list. Contents We need a working medical system Just over 2 years ago one of us (Rachel) got a brain infection which kills around 1/4 of people who get it, and leaves 1/3 with permanent cognitive impairment. Many others end up with permanent vision and hearing damage. Rachel was delirious by the time she crawled across the hospital parking lot. She was lucky enough to receive prompt care, diagnosis, and treatment. Up until shortly before this event Rachel was in great health. Having prompt access to the emergency room almost certainly saved her life. Now, let’s talk about covid-19, and what might happen to people in Rachel’s situation in the coming...
Wireless Penetration testing actively examines the process of Information security Measures which is Placed in WiFi Networks and also analyses the Weakness, technical flows, and Critical wireless Vulnerabilities. Most important countermeasures we should focus on Threat Assessment, Data theft Detection, security control auditing, Risk prevention and Detection, information system Management, Upgrade infrastructure and the Detailed report should be prepared. Framework for Wireless Penetration Testing 1. Discover the Devices which connected with Wireless Networks. 2. Document all the findings if Wireless Device is Found. 3. If wireless Device found using Wifi Networks, then perform common wifi Attacks and check the devices using WEP Encryption. 4. if you found WLAN using WEP Encryption then Perform WEP Encryption Pentesting. 5. Check whether WLAN Using WPA/WPA2 Encryption .if yes then perform WPA/WPA2 pentesting . 6. Check Whether WLAN using LEAP Encryption .if yes then perform LEAP Pentesting. 7. No other Encryption Method used which I mentioned above, Then Check whether WLAN using unencrypted. 8. If WLAN is unencrypted then perform common wifi network attacks, check the vulnerability which is placed in unencrypted method and generate a report. 9. Before generating a Report make sure no damage has been caused in the pentesting assets. Wireless Pentesting with WEP Encrypted WLAN 1.Check the SSID and analyze whether SSID Visible or Hidden. 2. Check for networks using WEP encryption. 3.If you find the SSID as visible mode then try to sniff the traffic and check the packet capturing status. 4. If the packet has been successfully captured and injected then it’s time to break the WEP key by using a WiFi cracking tool such as Aircrack-ng,...
Accenture has announced its intentions to acquire Symantec’s Cyber Security Services business from Broadcom Inc. Broadcom scooped up the entire Symantec Enterprise Security business for $10.7 billion in August. The amount Accenture paid for the Cyber Security Services division has not been disclosed. Under the deal, Accenture will take on Symantec’s portfolio of Cyber Security Services, which includes global threat monitoring and analysis, conducted through a network of security operation centres and threat intelligence and incident response services. Symantec’s six security operations centres are located in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Australia, Singapore, and Japan. Accenture will also now assume responsibility for the 300-plus Mountain View-based staff employed under the Symantec Cyber Security Services business. See also: Cybersecurity staff burnout risks leaving organisations vulnerable to cyberattacks “Becoming part of Accenture Security is a tremendous opportunity for our clients and our cyber warriors around the globe, enabling us to fuse the unique services, capabilities, and solutions of two well-established companies to deliver the next generation of cybersecurity services,” vice president and general manager of Symantec’s Cyber Security Services business John Lionato said. Accenture now boasts a handful of security-focused business units, after previously scooping up Deja vu Security, iDefense, Arismore, Maglan, Redcore, and FusionX. “Cybersecurity has become one of the most critical business imperatives for all organisations regardless of industry or geographic location,” Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said. “With the addition of Symantec’s Cyber Security Services business, Accenture Security will offer one of the most comprehensive managed services for global businesses to detect and manage cybersecurity threats aimed at their companies.” Accenture said that during the 2019 fiscal...
Big data holds out big promises for marketing. Notably, it pledges to answer two of the most vexing questions that have stymied marketers since they started selling: 1) who buys what when and at what price? and 2) can we link what consumers hear, read, and view to what they buy and consume? Answering these makes marketing more efficient by improving targeting and by identifying and eliminating the famed half of the marketing budget that is wasted. To address these questions, marketers have trained their big-data telescopes at a single point: predicting each customer’s next transaction. In pursuit of this prize marketers strive to paint an ever more detailed portrait of each consumer, memorizing her media preferences, scrutinizing her shopping habits, and cataloging her interests, aspirations and desires. The result is a detailed, high-resolution close-up of each customer that reveals her next move. But in the rush to uncover and target the next transaction, many industries are quickly coming up against a disquieting reality: Winning the next transaction eventually yields only short term tactical advantage, and it overlooks one big and inevitable outcome. When every competitor becomes equally good at predicting each customer’s next purchase, marketers will inevitably compete away their profits from that marginal transaction. This unwinnable short-term arms race ultimately leads to an equalization of competitors in the medium to long term. There is no sustainable competitive advantage in chasing the next buy. This is not to say firms should never try to predict and capture the next purchase – but that they can only expect above-average returns from this activity in industries where competitors are lagging and...
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