{"id":92,"date":"2004-12-08T23:38:24","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T22:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=92"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:17","slug":"ethical-hacking-a-bcs-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2004\/12\/08\/ethical-hacking-a-bcs-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethical Hacking: A BCS Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening I went along to the <a href=\"http:\/\/edinburgh.bcs.org.uk\">Edinburgh BCS<\/a> talk on <a href=\"http:\/\/edinburgh.bcs.org.uk\/04-05\/041208.htm\">Ethical Hacking<\/a>. It was really eye-opening and made me suitably paranoid about my own security.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Wood of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbtechies.co.uk\/\">First Base Technologies<\/a> gave a remarkably useful, informative and funny talk on the subject. (and left me totally paranoid as I said before).<\/p>\n<p>Some interesting points and some thoughts<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><strong>Physical intrusion is very likely<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Physically entering a building and stealing data is often easier than getting past network security and cracking a network.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Social engineering is a serious concern<\/strong><\/p>\n<dt>\n<dd>It is relatively easy to get people to give access information away<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Have a plan to deal with physical intrusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<dt>\n<dd>In one case the receptionists realised that the intruder was present but didn&#8217;t have any instructions on what to do in that situation &#8211; result: failure. Have obvious guidelines on who to call and what to do if an intruder is spotted.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Look at logs<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Log files are often the first sign of unexpected happenings<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Encrypt valuable data<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>The machine doesn&#8217;t have to be secure for your data to be secure<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Firewall all access and especially firewall dialup accounts<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>One of the examples should how an apparently secured network was compromised by a dial up access point within the network<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>People with clipboards and pens are always accepted as genuine, even when they are actually intruders<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Suggestion: Have anyone holding a clipboard and pen removed from the building immediately. Or at least don&#8217;t assume that they are genuine, just because they look busy<\/dd>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>Overall fascinating and really interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening I went along to the Edinburgh BCS talk on Ethical Hacking. It was really eye-opening and made me suitably paranoid about my own security. Peter Wood of First Base Technologies gave a remarkably useful, informative and funny talk on the subject. (and left me totally paranoid as I said before). Some interesting points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-internet-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}