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3. ©2014 Experian Information Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Experian Confidential. 3  Adversaries  Attack scenarios – sample  Fraud we see  Products that don’t work  Products that work  Products that don’t exist  Conclusions Content

4. ©2014 Experian Information Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Experian Confidential. 4 Adversaries Script kiddies MOTIVATION: Hacking for fun and respect Fame (either externally or internally) Hactavists MOTIVATION: Hacking to free the world and punish corporate greed and abuse Punish those that deserve punishing (whom they decide) Organized crime MOTIVATION: Hacking to support illegal criminal activities that generate profit Money, money, money Hostile nation states MOTIVATION: Hacking to steal intellectual property and empower themselves Power All things that make a country powerful – Improve yourself and weaken your enemies

5. ©2014 Experian Information Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Experian Confidential. 5 Denial of service  Trying to disrupt services and revenue  These attacks can be via extortion events or through organized hacktavist activities  Tools provided for free  Times and targets broadcasted via underground channels Phishing  I wish this was limited to the Nigerian scam email  Now attacks are highly sophisticated and targeted  Evolved into “spear phishing” and “whaling” and now a slight variation called “water-holing” Attack scenarios

6. ©2014 Experian Information Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Experian Confidential. 6 SQL injection  Abuse client side data and manipulate fields used for dynamic SQL queries  Lack of server side validation creates exposures APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats)  Getting all the buzz lately  Highly targeted highly sophisticated attacks  Often leverage 0-day issues and operate “low and slow” Attack scenarios

7. ©2014 Experian Information Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Experian Confidential. 7 Trusted insider  Authorized individuals doing unauthorized things  Higher risk around system administrators and genius product developers  This includes acts of malicious intent and acts of noble intent but done in an unsafe manner Social engineering  Pretending to be someone you are not in an attempt to gain access to something you should not have Abuse of products  Using stolen credentials, gaming system logic, hacking client PCs Attack scenarios

8. ©2014 Experian Information Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Experian Confidential. 8 Submission of fake documents  Fake police reports  Fake court orders  Fake drivers license  Fake affirmations from legitimate creditor Submission of fake positive data  Data furnishers with fake data to bolster credit files  Paid offers to become delegated / authorized users on credit cards  Credit clinics that attempt to flood the system with bogus challenges Login abuse via B2B and B2C channels Fraud we see (and combat)

9. ©2014 Experian Information Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Experian Confidential. 9 Entire societies exist off the grid and on the “dark Web”  These private channels are used for everything imaginable; hackers for hire, CC for sale, illegal pornography, identities for sale, illegal weapons, drugs, usernames / passwords, etc.  Some entities monitor this traffic (such as Garlk) and attempt to alert upon identifying concerning activities The “evil” underground

10. ©2014 Experian Information Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Experian Confidential. 10  Systems like TOR (the onion router) make anonymous communication very easy to use and very difficult to track ► Only recently have we seen TOR node anonymity come under question. First developed by the U.S Naval Research Lab and DARPA  When you combine anonymous payment systems like bitcoin with anonymous communication systems like TOR, you create an opportunity for abuse  More and more companies are professing to have dark Web listeners and human capital for collecting threat intel The “evil” underground

11. ©2014 Experian Information Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Experian Confidential. 11 Products / techniques that (usually) don’t work PasswordsAntivirus Intrusion detection systems Firewalls Knowledge-based Authentication (by itself)

12. ©2014 Experian Information Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Experian Confidential. 12  Device identification – aka 41st Parameter ®  Adaptive authentication  Malware detection via controlled virtual exploitation  Password vaulting  Data loss prevention  Active scanning with indicators of compromise (IoCs)  System and application containerization / virtualization Products that work

13. ©2014 Experian Information Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Experian Confidential. 13 Seamless flushing of device(s) upon attack detection  The ability to reset a device to a known good state upon the detection of malicious activity True security data intelligence  High volume data aggregation and interpretation to identify various attacks across the enterprise – also known as big security data  Bring together dissimilar data elements to discover previously undiscovered malicious patterns PC micro-virtualization with no impact to user experience  Systems that protect each component from every other component, but still allow legitimate user experience to flow unimpeded Products that don’t exist (because it’s hard to do)

14. ©2014 Experian Information Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Experian Confidential. 14  We are targeted every day  Adversaries are very smart, very well-funded and very patient  We have to be right every time, they just have to be right one time  Products like 41 st Parameter ® actually make a difference  Some products have lost value over time  It is a continual arms race with both attackers and defenders constantly refining their arsenal  Have a nice day Conclusions

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