CYBER SECURITY (R18A0521)

CYBER SECURITY Page 1 DIGITAL NOTES ON CYBER SECURITY (R18A0521) B.TECH III YEAR – II SEM (R18) (2020-2021) DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MALLA REDDY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY (Autonomous Institution – UGC, Govt. of India) Recognized under 2(f) and 12 (B) of UGC ACT 1956 (Affiliated to JNTUH, Hyderabad, Approved by AICTE - Accredited by NBA & NAAC – ‘A’ Grade - ISO 9001:2015 Certified) Maisammaguda, Dhulapally (Post Via. Hakimpet), Secunderabad – 500100, Telangana State, IndiaCYBER SECURITY Page 2 MALLA REDDY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY III Year B.Tech II Sem L T/P/D C 3 -/-/- 3 (RA18A0521) CYBER SECURITY (Professional Elective 2) Course objectives:  To understand various types of cyber-attacks and cyber-crimes  To learn threats and risks within context of the cyber security  To have an overview of the cyber laws & concepts of cyber forensics  To study the defensive techniques against these attacks UNIT -I Introduction to Cyber Security: Basic Cyber Security Concepts, layers of security, Vulnerability, threat, Harmful acts, Internet Governance – Challenges and Constraints, Computer Criminals, CIA Triad, Assets and Threat, motive of attackers, active attacks, passive attacks, Software attacks, hardware attacks, Cyber Threats-Cyber Warfare, Cyber Crime, Cyber terrorism, Cyber Espionage, etc., Comprehensive Cyber Security Policy. UNIT - II Cyberspace and the Law & Cyber Forensics: Introduction, Cyber Security Regulations, Roles of International Law. The INDIAN Cyberspace, National Cyber Security Policy. Introduction, Historical background of Cyber forensics, Digital Forensics Science, The Need for Computer Forensics, Cyber Forensics and Digital evidence, Forensics Analysis of Email, Digital Forensics Lifecycle, Forensics Investigation, Challenges in Computer Forensics UNIT - III Cybercrime: Mobile and Wireless Devices: Introduction, Proliferation of Mobile and Wireless Devices, Trends in Mobility, Credit card Frauds in Mobile and Wireless Computing Era, Security Challenges Posed by Mobile Devices, Registry Settings for Mobile Devices, Authentication service Security, Attacks on Mobile/Cell Phones, Organizational security Policies and Measures in Mobile Computing Era, Laptops. UNIT- IV Cyber Security: Organizational Implications: Introduction, cost of cybercrimes and IPR issues, web threats for organizations, security and privacy implications, social media marketing: security risks and perils for organizations, social computing and the associated challenges for organizations.CYBER SECURITY Page 3 UNIT - V Privacy Issues: Basic Data Privacy Concepts: Fundamental Concepts, Data Privacy Attacks, Datalinking and profiling, privacy policies and their specifications, privacy policy languages, privacy in different domains- medical, financial, etc Cybercrime: Examples and Mini-Cases Examples: Official Website of Maharashtra Government Hacked, Indian Banks Lose Millions of Rupees, Parliament Attack, Pune City Police Bust Nigerian Racket, e-mail spoofing instances. Mini-Cases: The Indian Case of online Gambling, An Indian Case of Intellectual Property Crime, Financial Frauds in Cyber Domain. TEXT BOOKS: 1. Nina Godbole and SunitBelpure, Cyber Security Understanding Cyber Crimes,Computer Forensics and Legal Perspectives,Wiley 2. B.B.Gupta,D.P.Agrawal,HaoxiangWang,ComputerandCyberSecurity:Principle s, Algorithm, Applications, and Perspectives, CRC Press, ISBN 9780815371335,2018. REFERENCES: 1. Cyber Security Essentials, James Graham, Richard Howard and Ryan Otson, CRCPress. 2. Introduction to Cyber Security, Chwan-Hwa(john) Wu,J. David Irwin, CRC Press T&FGroup. Course Outcomes: The students will be able to: 1.Analyze cyber-attacks, types of cybercrimes, cyber laws and also how to protect them self and ultimately the entire Internet community from such attacks. 2.Interpret and forensically investigate security incidents 3.Apply policies and procedures to manage Privacy issues 4.Design and develop secure software modulesCYBER SECURITY Page 4 MALLA REDDY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY S. No Unit Topic Page no 1 I Cyber security introduction -Basics 5 2 I Layers of Security 9 3 I Security vulnerabilities, threats and Attacks 11 4 I Cyber Threats-Cyber-Warfare 16 5 II Cyberspace and the Law & Cyber Forensics 19 6 II National Cyber security Policy 22 7 II Cyber Forensics 23 8 III Cybercrime-Mobile and wireless devices 30 9 III Security Challenges proposed by Mobile devices 34 10 IV Cyber security-Organizational Implications 11 IV Social Media Marketing 12 V Privacy Issues-Data Privacy attacks 13 V Privacy Policy LanguagesCYBER SECURITY Page 5 UNIT-I Introduction to Cyber Security Cyber Security Introduction - Cyber Security Basics: Cyber security is the most concerned matter as cyber threats and attacks are overgrowing. Attackers are now using more sophisticated techniques to target the systems. Individuals, small-scale businesses or large organization, are all being impacted. So, all these firms whether IT or non-IT firms have understood the importance of Cyber Security and focusing on adopting all possible measures to deal with cyber threats. What is cyber security? "Cyber security is primarily about people, processes, and technologies working together to encompass the full range of threat reduction, vulnerability reduction, deterrence, international engagement, incident response, resiliency, and recovery policies and activities, including computer network operations, information assurance, law enforcement, etc." OR Cyber security is the body of technologies, processes, and practices designed to protect networks, computers, programs and data from attack, damage or unauthorized access.  The term cyber security refers to techniques and practices designed to protect digital data.  The data that is stored, transmitted or used on an information system. OR Cyber security is the protection of Internet-connected systems, including hardware, software, and data from cyber attacks. It is made up of two words one is cyber and other is security.  Cyber is related to the technology which contains systems, network and programs or data.  Whereas security related to the protection which includes systems security, network security and application and information security. Why is cyber security important? Listed below are the reasons why cyber security is so important in what’s become a predominant digital world:  Cyber attacks can be extremely expensive for businesses to endure.  In addition to financial damage suffered by the business, a data breach can also inflict untold reputational damage.  Cyber-attacks these days are becoming progressively destructive. Cybercriminals are using more sophisticated ways to initiate cyber attacks.CYBER SECURITY Page 6  Regulations such as GDPR are forcing organizations into taking better care of the personal data they hold. Because of the above reasons, cyber security has become an important part of the business and the focus now is on developing appropriate response plans that minimize the damage in the event of a cyber attack. But, an organization or an individual can develop a proper response plan only when he has a good grip on cyber security fundamentals. Cyber security Fundamentals – Confidentiality: Confidentiality is about preventing the disclosure of data to unauthorized parties. It also means trying to keep the identity of authorized parties involved in sharing and holding data private and anonymous. Often confidentiality is compromised by cracking poorly encrypted data, Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks, disclosing sensitive data. Standard measures to establish confidentiality include:  Data encryption  Two-factor authentication  Biometric verification  Security tokens Integrity Integrity refers to protecting information from being modified by unauthorized parties. Standard measures to guarantee integrity include:  Cryptographic checksums  Using file permissions  Uninterrupted power supplies  Data backups Availability Availability is making sure that authorized parties are able to access the information when needed. Standard measures to guarantee availability include:  Backing up data to external drives  Implementing firewalls  Having backup power supplies  Data redundancyCYBER SECURITY Page 7 Types of Cyber Attacks A cyber-attack is an exploitation of computer systems and networks. It uses malicious code to alter computer code, logic or data and lead to cybercrimes, such as information and identity theft. Cyber-attacks can be classified into the following categories: 1) Web-based attacks 2) System-based attacks Web-based attacks These are the attacks which occur on a website or web applications. Some of the important web-based attacks are as follows1. Injection attacks It is the attack in which some data will be injected into a web application to manipulate the application and fetch the required information. Example- SQL Injection, code Injection, log Injection, XML Injection etc. 2. DNS Spoofing DNS Spoofing is a type of computer security hacking. Whereby a data is introduced into a DNS resolver's cache causing the name server to return an incorrect IP address, diverting traffic to the attackers computer or any other computer. The DNS spoofing attacks can go on for a long period of time without being detected and can cause serious security issues. 3. Session Hijacking It is a security attack on a user session over a protected network. Web applications create cookies to store the state and user sessions. By stealing the cookies, an attacker can have access to all of the user data. 4. Phishing Phishing is a type of attack which attempts to steal sensitive information like user login credentials and credit card number. It occurs when an attacker is masquerading as a trustworthy entity in electronic communication. 5. Brute force It is a type of attack which uses a trial and error method. This attack generates a large number of guesses and validates them to obtain actual data like user password and personal identification number. This attack may be used by criminals to crack encrypted data, or by security, analysts to test an organization's network security.CYBER SECURITY Page 8 6. Denial of Service It is an attack which meant to make a server or network resource unavailable to the users. It accomplishes this by flooding the target with traffic or sending it information that triggers a crash. It uses the single system and single internet connection to attack a server. It can be classified into the followingVolume-based attacks- Its goal is to saturate the bandwidth of the attacked site, and is measured in bit per second. Protocol attacks- It consumes actual server resources, and is measured in a packet. Application layer attacks- Its goal is to crash the web server and is measured in request per second. 7. Dictionary attacks This type of attack stored the list of a commonly used password and validated them to get original password. 8. URL Interpretation It is a type of attack where we can change the certain parts of a URL, and one can make a web server to deliver web pages for which he is not authorized to browse. 9. File Inclusion attacks It is a type of attack that allows an attacker to access unauthorized or essential files which is available on the web server or to execute malicious files on the web server by making use of the include functionality. 10. Man in the middle attacks It is a type of attack that allows an attacker to intercepts the connection between client and server and acts as a bridge between them. Due to this, an attacker will be able to read, insert and modify the data in the intercepted connection. System-based attacks These are the attacks which are intended to compromise a computer or a computer network. Some of the important system-based attacks are as follows1. Virus It is a type of malicious software program that spread throughout the computer files without the knowledge of a user. It is a self-replicating malicious computer program that replicates by inserting copies of itself into other computer programs when executed. It can also execute instructions that cause harm to the system.CYBER SECURITY Page 9 2. Worm It is a type of malware whose primary function is to replicate itself to spread to uninfected computers. It works same as the computer virus. Worms often originate from email attachments that appear to be from trusted senders. 3. Trojan horse It is a malicious program that occurs unexpected changes to computer setting and unusual activity, even when the computer should be idle. It misleads the user of its true intent. It appears to be a normal application but when opened/executed some malicious code will run in the background. 4. Backdoors It is a method that bypasses the normal authentication process. A developer may create a backdoor so that an application or operating system can be accessed for troubleshooting or other purposes. 5. Bots A bot (short for "robot") is an automated process that interacts with other network services. Some bots program run automatically, while others only execute commands when they receive specific input. Common examples of bots program are the crawler, chatroom bots, and malicious bots.CYBER SECURITY Page 10 The 7 layers of cyber security should centre on the mission critical assets you are seeking to protect. 1: Mission Critical Assets – This is the data you need to protect 2: Data Security – Data security controls protect the storage and transfer of data. 3: Application Security – Applications security controls protect access to an application, an application’s access to your mission critical assets, and the internal security of the application. 4: Endpoint Security – Endpoint security controls protect the connection between devices and the network. 5: Network Security – Network security controls protect an organization’s network and prevent unauthorized access of the network. 6: Perimeter Security – Perimeter security controls include both the physical and digital security methodologies that protect the business overall. 7: The Human Layer – Humans are the weakest link in any cyber security posture. Human security controls include phishing simulations and access management controls that protect mission critical assets from a wide variety of human threats, including cyber criminals, malicious insiders, and negligent users. Vulnerability, threat, Harmful acts As the recent epidemic of data breaches illustrates, no system is immune to attacks. Any company that manages, transmits, stores, or otherwise handles data has to institute and enforce mechanisms to monitor their cyber environment, identify vulnerabilities, and close up security holes as quickly as possible. Before identifying specific dangers to modern data systems, it is crucial to understand the distinction between cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Cyber threats are security incidents or circumstances with the potential to have a negative outcome for your network or other data management systems. Examples of common types of security threats include phishing attacks that result in the installation of malware that infects your data, failure of a staff member to follow data protection protocols that cause a data breach, or even a tornado that takes down your company’s data headquarters, disrupting access. Vulnerabilities are the gaps or weaknesses in a system that make threats possible and tempt threat actors to exploit them. Types of vulnerabilities in network security include but are not limited to SQL injections, server misconfigurations, cross-site scripting, and transmitting sensitive data in a nonencrypted plain text format. When threat probability is multiplied by the potential loss that may result, cyber security experts, refer to this as a risk.