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Contentscontents Editor’S Note New & News SK Magazine Team contentsContents Editor’s Note New & News SK Magazine Team 1 year, 12 months, 365 days For those who are not familiar and 8760 hours had been Chairman & Editor-In-Chief with CSCAMP, it’s an annual Moataz Salah passed since the release .... conference for information security professionals where Editors we gather all security Hidayath Ullah Khan Joe Sullivan True Story Sameh Sabry Ahmed Nile Omar Sherin Vinoth Sivasubramanian Interview Naveen Sharma With ... Dr. Website Development Treachery, deceit and pilfer- Mariam Samy ing have always been associ- Sherif Hashem ated with mankind ever since Translation Senior Advisor to the CIT Minis- Mai Alaa El-Dein the Neanderthal age. History ter for CyberSecurity at Minis- Asmaa Ibrahim has been a sore witness .... try of Communications .... Marketing Coordinator Mahitab Ahmed Photographers Grey HAT Best Practice Mohamed Mohsen Mohamed Samy Designed & Printed By 2DAY Adv. It all started while being so Constructing mature in- hungry and trying to figure Security Kaizen is issued out what to eat ... formation security aware- Every 3 months ness and educational Reproduction in Whole or models, part without written permis- Information Security is defined sion is strictly prohibited as protecting information and Awareness ALL COPYRIGHTS ARE the systems that hold and support them directly from PRESERVED TO unauthorized use, access, WWW.BLUEKAIZEN.ORG disclosure, disruptions, modi- fication and destruction. Any Facebook Tips organization irrespective of At Facebook, we work hard to their size and number util ... protect the people ... For Advertisement In Security Kaizen Magazine and www.bluekaizen.org Website Mail:[email protected] Or Phone: 0100 267 5570 Securitykaizen Magazine www.bluekaizen.org 3 Editor’s Note Editor’s Note 4 Editor’s Note 1 year, 12 months, 365 days and 8760 hours had been passed since the release of our “Security Kaizen Magazine” first issue. Today, we are celebrating with you the first birthday of your Magazine. Days passed so fast and I believe everyone feels the same, I still remember, as if it was last month, the 25th of January revolution days, Tah- rir square, the internet cut off and the waking up at nights protecting our homes, although a whole year has gone now. During this year , if I have the right to say that, we have been mov- ing from success to another, the feedback we got from our followers whether internationally or locally was beyond my expectations and was something that made me feel so proud, not of myself, but of the great work that my team did and regardless of the hard conditions the country was in, we were able to survive and continuously improve ourselves 2011 We were able to be a media sponsor for nearly most of the famous Information Security Confer- ences during 2011 Starting by Hacker Halted Cairo in December 2010 passing by HITB in Amster- dam and Malaysia, Takedowncon in Dallas, Hacker Halted in Miami, RSA in London, Abu Dhabi Cyber Defense Summit and Others. We were also a media sponsor for the first Cyberlympics ACHIEVEMENTS games. After the release of the First issue in English language, we received many requests to release another version in Arabic, so we started, from the second issue, to release 2 versions one in Arabic and another in English and it was really hard to translate some The most astonishing thing to me is that, despite the expensive ticket price of these conferenc- technical expressions and concepts to Arabic especially that our translators are not es, average of 2000 $, our international readers in USA, Amsterdam and London were so keen to technical ones but I would like to use this opportunity to thank all the translators who attend the above conferences using our discount code, we were able to get one reader in USA to attend Takedowncon in Dallas, 4 readers from Amsterdam to attend HITB, 1 reader to attend helped us to release the Arabic issues till we reached now a stable state. RSA in London. Securitykaizen Magazine 5 Editor’s Note We had a list of interviews with unique and I hope you will the highest prestigious profes- like it. But to be able to survive sionals in the Information Se- and continue producing your curity field such as: Joe Sulli- magazine and keep it for free, van (the chief security officer we decided to make a sort of of facebook). Also we were fund from all fans of “Bluekai- able to make a partnership zen” and “Security Kaizen with facebook where they Magazine” who are willing to will write an article every is- participate, usually in such sue covering Security tips in cases in western countries a Facebook.com. We had an donation button on the web- interview with Clement Dupuis site is enough, but in Middle (the founder of CCCURE.ORG east countries we don’t have Portal) and Al Berman (CEO of source of expenses’ cover- such culture so we decided DRII.ORG) and in this issue Dr age is through advertisements to make a section called sherif Hashem, senior Advisor and we all know how the busi- “Bluekaizen Store,” in this sec- to the Minister of Communica- ness was hard during this year tion you will be able to buy tion and Information Technol- that even caused some com- T-shirts, Mugs and different ogy for Cyber security, and panies to close, but we were products with Security Kaizen the Executive vice president able to do it and we are con- Logos, our animated charac- of ITIDA, Egypt. tinuing do it. ter “kaizono” and other de- signs. We have been thinking During this year, the biggest Due to these financial prob- about an idea that won’t be challenge to us was to trans- lems, we were not able to re- a direct donation for money fer the magazine from an lease the fourth issue on time and we found that this solu- electronic version to a printed and we had to merge the tion will be the best so if You one, printing a magazine is October and January issue like our magazine and our ac- not that cheap especially that together to release one issue tivities help us to continue pro- “Security Kaizen Magazine” is in December to be the yearly ducing it by giving an amount a free magazine and the only issue, but we tried to make it of your liking. Finally, I am not saying all of this to take pride in what we have done, although we should, but mainly to share that success with all our beloved readers and let them be sure that we wouldn’t have gone that far without them and also to thank all my team members who are volunteering with their time and effort because they believe in “Bluekaizen” goals and I want to thank especially Mariam Samy (our website developer), Mai Alaa and her team (our Arabic translator) who really did a great effort during this year to move “Security Kaizen” forward and finally a special thanks to my wife that with- out her support and the calm atmosphere she provided, I wouldn’t have been able to achieve this success. Moataz Salah Bluekaizen founder Securitykaizen Magazine www.bluekaizen.org 7 True Story True Story 8 Take a look at the recent online bank heists that have occurred over the last couple of years: True STORY Hacking the Banks for Fun and profit! • In mid-July 2010, computer crooks her online banking transactions. There stole $447,000 from Ferma Corp. a Santa are many ways of taking control of the Maria, California based Demolition Com- victim machine remotely, but the easiest pany by initiating a large batch of trans- approach for the attackers would be to fers from Ferma’s online bank account. attack the desktop applications like web • Also in July 2010, attackers stole browser, PDF reader and MS-Office ap- $415,000 from Bullitt County Bank, Ken- plications etc. which are by default in- tucky in US. stalled on the victim’s machine. These • In December 2009, cyber crimi- desktop applications contain a plethora nals successfully stole 300,000 Euro from of vulnerabilities that can be remotely a German bank’s online accounts. exploited by the attackers to give them • And the list goes on….. unauthorized access to the victim’s ma- Treachery, deceit and pilfering have always been associated with mankind ever since the The modus operandi adopted by cyber chine. Neanderthal age. History has been a sore witness to the many acts of treason perpetrated by criminals for hacking banks is evolving Attacking these desktop applications man to entice, dupe and usurp the innocent. Currently, as the world is shifting to a new paradigm continuously keeping in pace with to- could be done in many different ways. propelled by technological advancement, the temperament of man remains much the same. day’s modern banking technology. The easiest way would be to send a The medieval swindling tactics have been augmented with sophisticated cons. Today, the highly The Basic Attack Plan fraudulent e-mail to the online bank user precarious Internet is relentlessly misused for committing atrocities over the cyber space. Among In order for the attack to work, the at- containing a PDF or MS-office attach- the numerous cyber-crimes committed, “hacking the banks” provides the best bang for buck for tacker has to first remotely take control ment with malicious software embedded the cyber criminals. of an online-bank user’s desktop/laptop inside the attachment. When the user un- through which the user will be doing his/ wittingly opens the attachment, the ma- Securitykaizen Magazine www.bluekaizen.org 9 True Story True Story 10 licious software will get downloaded on deposited • Some banking Trojans overwrites gal experts say.
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