Internet Security Seminar

Abstract:

This seminar discusses the threats of hackers from the aspects of hacking technology, trend of hacking and their impacts on the Internet community. It points out some common methods and tools that hackers used to break into a system. Two real case studies of hacking will be discussed with live demonstration. It shows you how they break into a system by the technique of "Internet daemon buffer overflow". These case studies also reveal the behaviors and hacking patterns of some hackers. Finally, this seminar will present some general strategies and counter measures to protect your network against hacker attack.

Seminar Outline

Part I Aware of the Risks

The threats

Part II How they hack in

• Two real case studies with live demo
  - amd and named
• Another hack in demo
  - ftpd, rcp.statd

Part III Fighting back

Counter measures and strategies

• Security profile
• Security Policy
• Firewall Architecture

Part IV Q&A and discussion