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2012年11月17日星期六

Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net

- The PC virus problem is 25 years old
- Visit the first hackers ever in Pakistan;they got infected themselves, too.

- Online criminal can afford to invest their attack; use around the world.

- You must have something that can works, even when computer fails.
- Invest in backup power, system that works independently from the internet.

- Thinking about backup; thinking about when the service of internet is taken away from you.

- Find the people with the skills but without the opportunity; and give them the opportunity to do good.

Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon

how he analysis what is the target.

- Stuxnet, weapon to attack Iran nuclear facility in Iran 15,000 line of code

- Slowly, creepy, not be able to find it quickly
- Can lead to plant blow up
- Broke spin rate, waste the controller's time

- It turns out that USA develops it, but israelis modify to make it more powerful. It then escape to the target nuclear plan in Iran, and the virus got to the outside world. (more)

- This attack is generic: attack every power plant. Biggest target is USA, euro, JP.

fool input, might lead to a blow up of plant.

use data structure to find where the virus attack

Avi Rubin: All your devices can be hacked

Take away: With machine learning and C, seems to be able to hack w/ many device's security. There are really important opportunity here.

Use memory overflow.

- Been able to get a virus from your computer
- Implanted medical devices hack

- ICD allows wireless communicate the protocol to the implemented device.

- attack on car: short-range: wifi; long range: cellular network,
- smartphone vibration sensor accelerometer to detect near keyboard tapping ( what about using this as sms input)