Matt's Life Bytes

My lecture on Social Engineering for the Information Assurance Student Group at Iowa State University (IASG @ ISU). I demonstrate a real Social Engineering attack, then follow up by explaining how Social Engineering simply blends technology and social psychology.

This event and my comments regarding Social Engineering also received coverage from the Iowa State Daily, the Iowa State University campus newspaper:
http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/article_388022f8-b559-11df-8095-001cc4c03286.html

Ethics Statement:

Please take this knowledge and use it to better understand the mindset of an attacker and the anatomy of a network attack. I do not support unethical behavior in any way. I will not answer any questions regarding malicious use. This video does not show you how to cover your tracks, meaning that any malicious activities you perform can easily be traced, so don’t do anything stupid!

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Download Lecture Slides:

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (pptx @ 1,574kb)
Adobe PDF (pdf @ 1,142kb)

GNOME Security is based on the Fedora Security Spin. The spin includes many tools for security auditing, but comes with the LXDE Desktop Environment, of which I’m not a big fan. So I removed LXDE and added GNOME. The result is a fast and easy to use security auditing tool set based on Fedora that fits on one bootable CD or 1GB USB flash drive.

Interested? Read more over at the GNOME Security page!

A month or two ago I gave a lecture about the rather magical software suite Ettercap for the Information Assurance Student Group at Iowa State University (IASG @ ISU).  Ettercap can do crazy things with Ethernet traffic, including packet tampering, injection, and dropping.  Anyone with an interest in security should watch this; I post it hoping it gives you a better understanding of an Ettercap attack.

Ethics Statement:

Please take this knowledge and use it to better understand the mindset of an attacker and the anatomy of a network attack.  I do not support unethical behavior in any way.  I will not answer any questions regarding malicious use.  This video does not show you how to cover your tracks, meaning that any malicious activities you perform using Ettercap can easily be traced, so don’t do anything stupid!

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Download Lecture Slides:

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 with Hi-res Graphics & Backgrounds (pptx @ 562kb)
Adobe PDF With Backgrounds & Graphics Removed, Basic Text (pdf @ 1,792kb)