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Information Warfare - Viruses in Heterogeneous Unix Networks

by Peter V. Radatti
CyberSoft, Inc

Table of Contents

What is information Warfare

The goals of InfoWar

Hackers

Hackers as Friends?

How to use Hackers?

Hackers for hire

The goals of industrial InfoWar

Industrial Espionage

The goals of global InfoWar

Foreign Government Attack?

Who Me?

Really? Me?

How, Who?

Governments?

There is a cost to everything

How often are there security problems?

The cost of security

The BIG cost of security

What is the risk to me?

Factors

How to I protect myself?

Routers and firewalls

TCP/IP

Packets

Ports

NIS (Yellow Pages)

E - mail

Broadcast network

Security tools

Publications

CD-ROMs

YOU ARE NOT SECURE!!!

Final Word

Routers and firewalls

KNOW WHAT THE HACKERS KNOW

  • Do not connect your company network to the Internet unless you use a fire wall AND routers to protect it.
  • Many salesmen try to sell routers as fire walls. Routers are not fire walls! TCP/IP can be tunnelled. Read the following papers:

    Security Problems in the TCP/IP Protocol Suite by S. M. Bellovin

    Network (In)Security Through IP Packet Filtering by D. Brent Chapman

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