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CSC 382: Computer Security
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About Me
http://www.eecs.utoledo.edu/~jwalden
James Walden
– Assistant Professor of Computer Science
– [email protected]
– Interests:
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Software Security
Programming Languages
Software Engineering
Network Security
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Course Administration
http://www.eecs.utoledo.edu/~jwalden/2005/spring/eecs4980
• Web Site
– Notes, readings, and assignments on web site.
• Discussion Board
• Assignment submission
– Send electronic submissions to
[email protected]
• Contact Information
– Email:
– Phone:
– Office Hours:
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Course Goals
Learn how to answer these questions:
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What is computer security?
How do computer systems fail?
How can risks be evaluated?
How does a particular security solution mitigate risks?
How can costs and tradeoffs of security solutions be balanced?
How can secure software be designed, written, and tested?
When and how can cryptography be used securely?
How viruses and worms propagate and how can we stop them?
What are the essential problems and solutions of network
security?
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Course Outline
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Introduction:
Components and
Importance of Security.
Risk Evaluation.
Secure Design Principles.
Secure Programming.
Buffer Overflows.
Vulnerability Analysis.
Testing Software
Security.
Access Control.
Security Policies.
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9. Cryptography.
10. Authentication and
Identity.
11. TCP/IP Security.
12. UNIX Security.
13. Network Scanning.
14. Network Attacks.
15. Malware and Rootkits.
16. Incident Response and
Forensics.
17. Emission and Physical
Security.
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Grading
Midterm Exam
30%
Final Exam
40%
Assignments
30%
Exams are take-home comprehensive tests of how
you think about information security.
– You may use class readings and notes to help on exams.
– Test how well you think about security issues.
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Topics
A first look at five important questions:
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What is security?
What are the threats to our information assets?
How do we evaluate risks of various threats?
How does security mitigate these risks?
How do we balance the costs and trade-offs of
our security solutions?
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9/11
Most devastating terrorist attack in history.
– Low-tech.
– Innovative.
• Completely different than earlier hijackings.
• We thought we had solved airplane bombings by
ensuring passengers were on same flight as baggage.
– What were the security responses?
• How effective were the responses?
• What were the costs?
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What is Security?
Security is the prevention of certain types of
intentional actions from occuring in a system.
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These potential actions are threats.
Threats that are carried out are attacks.
Intentional attacks are carried out by an attacker.
Objects of attacks are assets.
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Safety vs Security
Adversary: An intelligent attacker who
intentionally causes the system to fail.
Safety
• Home: fire alarm.
• Car: crumple zones.
• Computer: UPS.
Security
• Home: door lock.
• Car: alarm.
• Computer: Login
password.
Safety and security can interact: Who is watching
your computer room after the fire alarm was pulled?
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What are threats?
• What threats can you think of to your home?
• To your money (including bank accounts,
checks, credit and debit cards)?
• To your home computer?
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What are threats?
• Home:
• Computer:
– Burglary
– Fire
– Vandalism
• Money (cash/credit):
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Theft.
Counterfeiting.
Signature forgery.
Identity theft.
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Viral/worm infection.
Adware/spyware.
Denial of service.
Data destruction.
Physical destruction
(overheat, flash “ROM”
overwriting)
– Use of computer for
felonious purposes.
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Digital Threats: More of the Same
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Theft
Vandalism
Extortion
Con Games
Fraud
Stalking
Voyeurism
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Digital Threats: What’s Different
• Automation
– Salami Attack from Office Space.
• Action at a Distance
– Volodya Levin, from St. Petersburg, Russia, stole
over $10million from US Citibank. Arrested in
London.
– Operators of CA BBS tried and convicted in TN
court because TN had d/led pornography f/ CA.
• Technique Propagation
– Criminals share techniques rapidly and globally.
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Classes of Threats
• Disclosure
• Deception
• Disruption
• Usurpation
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Classes of Threats
• Disclosure
– unauthorized access to data
– Examples
• copyright infringement
• unauthorized CC use
• Deception
– acceptance of false data
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• Anti-spam filter techniques
• “Social engineering”
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Classes of Threats
• Disruption
– interruption of correct system operation
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• DDOS attacks
• Usurpation
– unauthorized control of system component
– Example: Nicholas Jacobsen
• Controlled T-mobile’s systems in 2004
• Monitored e-mail, downloaded web-cam photos
• Sold customer records (incl SSN, voicemail pw, etc)
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Types of Threats
• Snooping
– interception of data
– Examples:
• Reading email, or intercepting cleartext passwords.
• ECHELON.
• Modification
– Examples:
• Changing student grades in War Games.
• Web site defacing (>1500/month recorded at attrition.org in 2001)
• Spoofing
– impersonation
– Examples:
• Spam emails almost always spoof source address.
• The many Citibank phishing scams.
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Types of Threats
• Repudiation of Origin
– Deny ordering goods.
• Denial of Receipt
– Deny receipt of payment or goods.
– Examples
• eBay
• Credit card payments.
• Denial of Service
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• 2000: “Mafiaboy” DDOS takes down Amazon, eBay, Yahoo.
• Filling up disk with spam, unauthorized copies of files.
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Current Threat Information
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SANS Internet Storm Center
Bugtraq
CERT
Packet Storm
Risks Digest
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ISC Survival Time Graph
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Who are the Attackers?
• Hackers vs Crackers
• Levels of attackers
– Developer
• Finds new security vulnerabilities
• Writes tools and exploits
– User
• Understands tools; modifies tools/exploits
– Script Kiddie
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Who are the Attackers?
• Criminals.
– 1993: Thieves installed bogus ATM at Manchester Mall.
Saved account#s + PINs.
• Organized crime.
– 2000: Mafia-led organization members arrested for
attempt to steal $680million from Bank of Sicily.
• Malicious insiders.
– 2001: Mike Ventimiglia deletes files of his employer,
GTE. $200,000 damage.
• Industrial espionage.
– 2001: Verdicts in Cadence Design Systems vs. Avant
against 7 employees incl CEO. 5 sentenced to jail.
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Who are the Attackers?
• Press.
– 1998: Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Michael Gallagher
breaks into Chiquita Fruits voicemail to expose illegal
activities.
• Police.
– 1997: LAPD illegal wiretapping scandal.
• Terrorists.
– 1999: DOS attacks and web defacements against NATO
country computers during Kosovo bombings.
• National Intelligence.
– 2000: Former CIA Directory Woolsey admitted to using
ECHELON information to help US companies win
foreign contracts.
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Policies and Mechanisms
• Policy states what is, and is not, allowed
– Policy defines “security” for the site/system/etc.
– Policies may be written as:
• Natural language.
• XML-based formal policy language.
• Form mathematics.
– Composition of policies
• If policies conflict, discrepancies may create security
vulnerabilities.
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Policies and Mechanisms
• Mechanisms enforce policies.
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Alarms.
Access Control: locks and ACLs.
Authentication: biometrics or passwords.
Cryptography.
• Human mechanisms:
– Guards.
– Hiring policies.
– Incident response procedures.
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Types of Mechanisms
Secure
Precise
Broad
Set of reachable states.
Set of secure states.
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Goals of Security
• Prevention
– Prevent attackers from violating security policy
• Detection
– Detect attackers’ violation of security policy
• Recovery
– Stop attack, assess and repair damage
• Survivability
– Continue to function correctly even if attack succeeds
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NSTISSC Security Model
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Components of Security
• Confidentiality
– Keeping data and resources hidden. Privacy.
• Integrity
– Preventing unauthorized changes to data or
resources.
• Availability
– Enabling access to data and resources
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Confidentiality
• Authentication
– Passwords, mother’s maiden name
• Corporations
– Trade secrets, e.g., the formula for Coca Cola.
• Databases
– SSN, Driver’s license
• Governments
– National security
– Embarrassing information: www.thememoryhole.org
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Integrity
• Data Integrity
– content of the information.
– ex: 2005 Walmart $1.5 million bar code scam.
• Origin Integrity (authentication)
– source of the information.
– ex: 1997 Kurt Vonnegut MIT commencement
address email. Vonnegut was not the 1997
speaker and the content wasn’t his.
• Prevention vs Detection
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Availability
• Prevent loss of system access.
• Denial of service attacks common.
– Easy to launch, difficult to track down.
– Can be just part of another attack
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States of Information
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Information not currently being accessed.
2. Processing
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Information currently being used by processor.
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Information in transit between one node and
another.
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Security Measures
• Technology.
– Hardware/software used to ensure
confidentiality, integrity, or availability.
• Policy and practice.
– Security requirements and activities.
• Education, training, and awareness.
– Understanding of threats and vulnerabilities and
how to protect against them.
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How can we evaluate security
solutions?
1. What assets are you trying to protect?
2. What are the risks to those assets?
3. How well does the security solution
mitigate those risks?
4. What other risks does the security solution
cause?
5. What costs and trade-offs does the security
solution impose?
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Aspects of Risks
• To evaluate a risk, we need to evaluate both:
– Probability of risk occurring.
– Cost incurred by risk if it occurs.
• Minimize product of probability and cost.
• Risks are impacted by environment.
– Building a house in a flood plain incurs
additional risks beyond that of house itself.
– Similarly, installion and configuration options
impact risk of software systems.
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Security is a matter of Trade-offs
• Security is only one of many system goals:
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Ease of Use
Efficiency
Time to market
Cost
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Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Is it cheaper to prevent violation or recover?
– Cost of good network security:
• Money, time, reduced functionality, annoyed users.
• Large and ongoing.
– Risks of bad network security:
• Angry customers, bad press, network downtime.
• Small and temporary.
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Security Liability
• Product liability:
– Tires: Continental recalled Ford SUV tires in
2002 due to wire and vibration problems.
– Software: Manufacturer not liable for security
flaws.
• Since Microsoft isn’t liable for Windows
security failures, why would they want to
sacrifice money, time, functionality, and ease
of use for security?
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Security: Laws and Customs
• Are desired security measures illegal?
– cryptography export before 2000
– is it legal to monitor security breakins?
– international commerce
• Will users circumvent them?
– writing down passwords
– removing file ACLs
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Airport Security
Let’s consider the issue of airport security again from
the standpoint of what we’ve learned. Develop a
solution, keeping the 5 questions in mind:
1. What assets are you trying to protect?
2. What are the risks to those assets?
3. How well does the security solution mitigate
those risks?
4. What other risks does the security solution cause?
5. What costs and trade-offs does the security
solution impose?
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Human Issues: Organizations
• Low priority
– Security costs, but doesn’t produce income.
– Lack of liability reduces costs of bad security.
• Variable impact
– Cost of security violation highly variable.
– Insurance converts variable risk to fixed cost, but
risk too variable for much involvement so far.
• Power and responsibility
– Personnel responsible for security often don’t
have power to enforce security.
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Human Issues: People Problems
• Social engineering
– Kevin Mitnick testified before Congress “I was
so successful in that line of attack that I rarely
had to resort to a technical attack.”
• Circumvention
– Users write down passwords, leave screens
unlocked.
• Insider attacks
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Assumptions
• Security rests on assumptions specific to
type of security required and environment.
• Example:
– TCP/IP designed for pre-commercial Internet.
• Assumed only legitimate admins had root access.
• Trusted IP addresses, since only root can set IP addr.
• What happens to network when Windows 95 systems
added to network, where desktop user has all
privileges?
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Trust and Assumptions
• Underlie all aspects of security
• Policies
– Unambiguously partition system states into
secure and insecure sets of states.
– Correctly capture security requirements.
• Mechanisms
– Assumed to enforce policy.
– Support mechanisms (compilers, library,
hardware, networks, etc.) work correctly.
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How much do you trust?
• Ken Thompson’s compiler hack from
“Reflections on Trusting Trust.”
– Modified C compiler does two things:
• If compiling a compiler, inserts the self-replicating
code into the executable of the new compiler.
• If compiling login, inserts code to allow a backdoor
password.
– After recompiling and installing old C compiler:
• Source code for Trojan horse does not appear
anywhere in login or C compiler.
• Only method of finding Trojan is analyzing binary.
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Assurance
• How much can you trust a system?
• Example:
– Purchasing aspirin from a drugstore.
– Bases for trust:
• Certification of drug by FDA.
• Reputation of manufacturer.
• Safety seal on bottle.
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Assurance
• Assurance performed during all parts of
software design cycle.
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Design
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Why Assurance?
• Security is NOT an add-on feature
• Penetrate and Patch
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You can only patch holes you know about.
Patches are often rushed and buggy.
Patches often attack only the symptom.
Patches are often not applied in time.
• Patch Tuesday
– MS releases security patches every 2nd Tuesday
– Jan 11th: 2 critical (1 impacts SP2), 1 important
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Assurance: Specification
• Requirements Analysis
– What resource should you protect?
– Who are you protecting it from?
– How long do you need to protect the resource?
• Potential problems
– Early Design: How are you going to protect it?
– Vague or silent areas of spec => vulnerabilites
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Assurance: Design
• How system will meet specification
• How to protect each resource?
– Which components need each resource?
– How data flows between components?
– How much do components trust each other?
• Secure design principles
• Design more important than implementation
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Assurance: Implementation
• Malicious input
– Buffer overflows
– Code injection
• Race conditions
• Cryptography problems
– Randomness problems
– Don’t write your own
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Assurance: Testing
• Formal proof techniques
– Difficult to get right
– Assumptions can be wrong
• Testing
– Unit tests
– Integration tests
• Common Criteria
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Tying Together
Threats
Policy
Specification
Design
Implementation
Operation
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Key Points
• Policy defines security; mechanisms enforce policy.
• Components of security
– Confidentiality
– Integrity
– Availability
• Evaluating risk and security solutions.
– Security is a matter of trade-offs.
• Security is not an add-on; it must be designed into a
system from the beginning of development.
• The human factor.
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Assignment
• Analyze the security of your home PC
– Check for spyware, using at least two tools such
as Ad-aware, Spybot S&D, Hijack This,
Windows Antispyware (Beta), etc.
– Use the Sites and Tools pages as starting point.
• Bring a one-sheet summary of what you
found (noting differences between tools) and
how your discoveries changed your
perception of your home PC’s security to
share in class on Thursday.
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References
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Anderson, Ross, Security Engineering, Wiley, 2001.
Bishop, Matt, Introduction to Computer Security,
Addison-Wesley, 2005.
Neumann, Peter (moderator), Risks Digest,
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/
SANS Internet Storm Center, http://isc.sans.org/
Schneier, Bruce, Beyond Fear, Copernicus Books, 2003.
Thompson, Ken, “Reflections on Trusting Trust”,
Communication of the ACM, Vol. 27, No. 8, August 1984,
pp. 761-763 (http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/)
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