Table of Contents
I. CRIME, WAR, AND TERROR IN THE INFORMATION
AGE.
1. Welcome to the Shadow Side of Cyberspace.
Types of Cybercrime. Types of Cybercriminals.
2. Inside the
Mind of the Cybercriminal.
“Stereotyping Can Be Dangerous”. “Intense Personal Problems” Are
the Key.
3. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me: The
Extent and Scope of the Cybercrime Problem.
The CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey.Whom We Asked.
Outlaw Blues. Types of Cyberattack. To Report or Not to Report. The
Truth Is Out There. A Note on Methodology.Relevant Data from Other
Sources.CERT/CC Statistics. Dan Farmer's Internet Security Survey.
WarRoom Research's Information Security
Survey.Conclusions.
4. Let It Bleed: The Cost of Computer
Crime and Related Security Breaches.
How Do You Quantify Financial Losses Due to Info Security
Breaches?You Can't Fully Quantify the Loss if You Haven't Valued
the Resource. System Penetration from the Outside. Unauthorized
Access from the Inside. Sabotage of Data or Network Operations.
Malicious Code. Don't Underestimate “Soft Costs”. If We Can
Quantify Losses, We Can Calculate ROI.
II. HACKERS, CRACKERS, AND VIRUS WRITERS.
5. Did the 1990s Begin with a Big Lie?
The First Serious Infrastructure Attack? Public Cyberenemy No. 1?
The Worms Crawl In, the Worms Crawl Out....What the Morris Worm Did
to Systems. What the Morris Worm
Demonstrated.Conclusion.
6. Joy Riders: Mischief That Leads
to Mayhem 65.
The Rome Labs Case: Datastream Cowboy and Kuji Mix It Up with the
U.S. Air Force.Investigators Wrestle with Legal Issues and
Technical Limitations. Datastream Cowboy's Biggest Mistake.
Scotland Yard Closes in on Datastream Cowboy. Kuji Hacks into
Goddard Space Flight Center. Kuji Attempts to Hack NATO HQ.
Scotland Yard Knocks on Datastream Cowboy's Door. Kuji's Identity
Is Finally Revealed. Who Can Find the Bottom
Line?HotterthanMojaveinmyheart: The Case of Julio Cesar Ardita.How
the Search for “El Griton” Began. Ardita's Biggest Mistake. No
Ordinary Wiretap. Debriefing “El Griton”.The Solar Sunrise Case:
Mak, Stimpy, and Analyzer Give the DoD a Run for Its Money.
Conclusion.
7. Grand Theft Data: Crackers and Cyber Bank
Robbers.
The Case of Carlos “SMAK” Salgado.Diary of a Computer Crime
Investigation. Don't Underestimate Internet-Based Credit Card
Theft. The Crest of an Electronic Commerce Crime
Wave?Citibank.Where Did It All Begin? How Did It Happen?
Misconceptions Dispelled. What It Took To Take Levin Down. You
Don't Know How Lucky You Are, Boys...Back in the USSR: Unanswered
Questions About Megazoid and the Russian Mafia. From Russia With
Love: The Sad Tale of Ekaterina and Evygeny.The Phonemasters
Case.How the Phonemasters Almost Blunder into Discovering the FBI's
Surveillance. A “Dream Wiretap” Results in an Enormous Challenge.
Quantifying the Financial Losses Proved Essential in Court. “The
Number You Have Reached Has Been
Disconnected...”.
8. Hacktivists and Cybervandals.
Hackers Run Amok in “Cesspool of Greed”.Schanot Goes Underground.
Schanot's Indictment and Capture. How Schanot Rang Southwestern's
Bell.Attack of the Zombies.Once Upon A Time, An Eerie Calm
Descended on Cyberspace.... Blow by Blow. How DDoS Works. Who
Launched the Attacks and Why. Aftermath. Calculating the Financial
Impact. The Moral of the Tale.
9. The $80 Million Lap Dance
and the $10 Billion Love Letter.
The $80 Million Lap Dance. “My Baby, She Wrote Me a Letter...”.
III. SPIES AND SABOTEURS.
10. Corporate Spies: Trade Secret Theft in
Cyberspace.
The Corporate World's Dirty, Little, Secret War. Some Real-World
Tales of Economic Espionage. Tit for Tat? State-Sponsored Economic
Espionage. EEA Sinks Its Teeth In 173.
11. Insiders: The
Wrath of the Disgruntled Employee.
Types of Cyberattack by Insiders. Oracle Scorned: The Unauthorized
Access of Adelyn Lee. Omega Man: The Implosion of Tim
Lloyd.
12. Infowar and Cyberterror: The Sky Is Not Falling,
But....
Cyberwar in Kosovo? China, U.S., and Taiwan: Has Code War Replaced
Cold War? Storming the Digital Bastille. Helter Skelter in
Cyberspace. Digital Dirty Tricks and Cyber Plumbers. Defensive
Information Warfare.
IV. MUGGERS AND MOLESTERS IN CYBERSPACE.
13. Identity Theft.
14. Child Pornography on the Internet.
Do You Have Your Priorities Straight?
V. THE DEFENSE OF CYBERSPACE.
15. Inside Fortune 500 Corporations.
How to Structure Your Information Security Unit. Where Should Your
Information Security Unit Report?
16. Inside Global Law
Enforcement.
National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC).The Role of
Computer Analysis Response Team (CART).“Isn't It Good, Norwegian
Wood...”.Case Study in the Struggle Over Subscriber Data. U.S. Law
Versus Norwegian Law. Council of Europe Floats a Cybercrime
Treaty.
17. Inside the U.S. Federal Government.
Inside the Pentagon. What's Going On in the Murky Waters at Foggy
Bottom? FAA Secured on a Wing and a Prayer? Lessons Learned from
the NASA Probe. Is Something Nasty Floating in Your Alphabet
Soup?Harold Nicholson, Traitor. Douglas Groat, Would-Be Traitor.
John Deutch: A Good Man Blunders. King and Lipka,
Traitors.Conclusion.
18. Countermeasures.
Organizational Issues. Risk Analysis.Baseline Controls Versus Risk
Analysis.Sound Practices.Sixteen Sound Practices Learned from
Leading Organizations. Information Protection Assessment Kit
(IPAK).Policies and Procedures.Net Abuse. E-Mail Abuse.Security
Awareness.Frontline.Security Technologies: Few Solutions, Lots of
Snake Oil, and No Silver Bullets. Outsourcing? Yes and
No.
Epilogue: The Human Factor.
One Term I Never Heard In Silicon Valley. Infosec du Soleil.
Joseph's Robe of Many Colors Was Made of Patches. Another Patsy
Named Lee? From the Red-Eye to the Russell Office Building.
VI - APPENDICES.
Glossary.
A. U.S. Laws and International Treaties.
Computer Fraud and Misuse Act. Economic Espionage Act of
1996. Council of Europe. Draft Convention on Cybercrime.DRAFT
CONVENTION ON CYBER-CRIME (Draft No 19). I. Use of terms. II.
Measures to be taken at the national level. Section 1. Substantive
criminal law. Section 2. Procedural law. Section 3. Jurisdiction.
III. International Co-operation. IV. Follow-up. V. Final
Provisions.
B. Excerpt from Criminal Affidavit in the Ardita
Case.
Efforts to Identify and Localize the Intruder Within the FAS
Harvard Host. Real-Time Monitoring of the Intruder's Activities in
November and December, 1995. Identification of “Griton,” the
Intruder, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
C. Resources and
Publications.
General Information.Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). NIST Computer Security
Resource Clearinghouse. Computer Crime Research Resources. Rik
Farrow. Bruce Schneier and Counterpane Systems. Lincoln Stein's WWW
Security FAQ. Bill Cheswick's Home Page. Alec Muffet's Home Page.
Marcus Ranum's Home Page. Fred Cohen & Associates. Dr. Dorothy
Denning's Home Page. Dan Farmer's Home Page. Sarah Gordon's Home
Page. George Smith, The Crypt Newsletter.U.S. GAO Cybersecurity
Assessments.Information Security: Computer Attacks at Department of
Defense Pose Increasing Risks. Information Security: Computer
Attacks at Department of Defense Pose Increasing Risks. Information
Security: Computer Hacker Information Available on the Internet.
Information Security: Opportunities for Improved OMB Oversight of
Agency Practices. IRS Systems Security and Funding: Employee
Browsing Not Being Addressed Effectively and Budget Requests for
New Systems Development Not Justified. IRS Systems Security: Tax
Processing Operations and Data Still at Risk Due to Serious
Weaknesses. IRS Systems Security: Tax Processing Operations and
Data Still at Risk Due to Serious Weaknesses. Air Traffic Control:
Weak Computer Security Practices Jeopardize Flight Safety. Computer
Security: Pervasive, Serious Weaknesses Jeopardize State Department
Operations. Executive Guide: Information Security
Management—Learning From Leading Organizations. FAA Systems:
Serious Challenges Remain in Resolving Year 2000 and Computer
Security Problems. Information Security: Serious Weaknesses Place
Critical Federal Operations and Assets at Risk. Information
Security: Serious Weaknesses Put State Department and FAA
Operations at Risk. Information Security: Strengthened Management
Needed to Protect Critical Federal Operations and Assets.
Department of Energy: Key Factors Underlying Security Problems at
DOE Facilities. Information Security: The Melissa Computer Virus
Demonstrates Urgent Need for Stronger Protection Over Systems and
Sensitive Data. High-Risk Series: An Update
HR-99-1. Information Security: Many NASA Mission-Critical
Systems Face Serious Risks.Anti-Virus Information.Virus Bulletin.
Rob Rosenberger's Computer Virus Myths. European Institute for
Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR). Datafellows Virus Information
Center. Henri Delger's Virus Help. Eddy Willems Free Anti-Virus
Consultancy.Incident Response Information.Computer Emergency
Response Team (CERT). Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams
(FIRST). Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC). Federal
Bureau of Investigation, National Infrastructure Protection Center
(NIPC). President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure
Protection (PCCIP). What Is Information Warfare? by Martin Libicki.
Information Warfare Resources. Institute for the Advanced Study of
Information Warfare.Organizations and Associations.Computer
Security Institute (CSI). American Society for Industrial Security
(ASIS). The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA).
Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association
(FISSEA). International Information Systems Security Certification
Consortium, Inc. (ISC)2. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
High Technology Crime Investigation Association. USENIX. The SANS
(System Administration, Networking, and Security) Institute.
International Computer Security Association (ICSA).Books and
Publications. On-Line News Sources.SecurityFocus and Security
Portal. APBonline.Security Mailing Lists.AUSCERT Australian
Computer Emergency Response. CERT Advisory Mailing List Computer
Emergency Response Team. CIAC Mailing List. Cypherpunks Mailing
List. Firewalls Mailing List. Academic-Firewalls Mailing List.
FWall-users Mailing List. Firewalls Wizards. BugTraq Mailing List.
RISKS-LIST.Newsgroups. Conferences and Training.Computer Security
Institute. The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC).
National Cybercrime Training Partnership. MIS Training Institute.
National Information Systems Security Conference.Computer
Underground.2600 Magazine: The Hacker Quarterly. Attrition. DefCon.
L0pht Heavy Industries. Phrack. Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc).
AntiOnline. Hacker News Network (HNN). Computer Underground
Digest.
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