Friday, April 17, 2020

Blog 11

This chapter was about IDS, firewalls, and honeypots

IDS

  • There are different types of intrusion detection systems. 
    • Network Intrusion Detection
    • Host intrusion detection
    • Signature-based: compares network traffic to known signatures
    • Anomaly-based: compares network and host behavior to baseline profiles
    • Protocol-based: detects anomalies specific to a given protocol

Firewalls

  • Packet-filtering firewalls distinguish between good and bad traffic.
  • A bastion host is a boundary firewall, which lets public and internal interfaces connect. 
  • A screened hubnet uses a single firewall to protect multiple interfaces.
  • Firewalking is using TCP and UDP packets to determine configuration of ACL's.
  • There are many evasion techniques that can be used to avoid a firewall.
    • Spoofing is when the hacker changes addressing information in the IP packet header to trick the firewall into thinking its from a trusted host.
    • Source routing is when a packet is sent to different places first before getting to the target destination. This attempts to evade the firewall.

Honeypots

  • A honeypot is a physical or virtual device designed to look like a legitimate network resource to draw in a hacker.
  • There are different levels of honeypots.
    • Low-Level: Simulates a number of services and applications.
    • Medium: Simulates a real OS, applications, and services.
    • High: Simulates all services and applications.

Article

 The article I read was about a company called Wappalyzer. They disclosed this security breach after the attacker starting emailing users offers to sell the company's database. The attacker had accessed one of the databases that had a misconfiguration. The hacker was not caught.


 https://www.zdnet.com/article/wappalyzer-discloses-security-breach-after-hacker-starts-emailing-users/

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