Cyber criminals like to hide. In this video, discover one of the techniques known as alternate data streams used by cyber criminals to hide their attacks.
- [Instructor] People who penetrate systems with malware … go out of their way to hide it once its on the target. … It if can evade detection, … it's more likely to accomplish its intended goals. … Let's have a look at some of the ways … in which malware can hide. … The first method to use … is the techniques used by the Windows operating system … to hide its activities. … An example of this is the hidden file … used by Internet Explorer … to keep a copy of the user's browsing history. … Different versions of Explorer hide it in different places. … Let's have a look at where mine is. … I'm in a command shell … and I'll go into my user application directory … by typing cd \users\user\appdata\local, … and I'll navigate into the microsoft\windows directory. … While I list the contents of the directory, … there's a number of files and folders, … but there's no history subdirectory. … Even if I include hidden files … there's no history directory. … However, the history subdirectory does exist, …
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Released
2/13/2020- Dissecting cyber risk
- Working with NIST, COBIT, and other frameworks
- Exploring cybercrime
- The different stages of the cyber kill chain
- How cyber criminals hide their attacks
- Measuring incident management maturity
- Detecting and responding to attacks
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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1. Frameworks and Controls
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An advanced risk framework5m 22s
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Managing security with COBIT3m 15s
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ASD and its top controls2m 49s
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Protecting payment card data7m 14s
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Clouding the issues3m 44s
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2. Cyber Threats
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Hiding using processes3m 59s
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3. Managing Cyber Incidents
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Incident management basics3m 48s
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Detecting an attack4m 4s
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Responding to an incident2m 33s
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Conclusion
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What's next55s
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Video: Cloaking and alternate data streams