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Cybersecurity Essentials
Common Terms for Common People

What this presentation is about (and NOT)
• Oriented to non- • Not for System Admins
of medium/large scale
professionals of IT Networks
• Intends to inform us • Not to train us for the
for common threats Cyber Crime
Investigation Unit
• …in order to advise • …or to transform us to
students, parents, Black Hat Hackers
colleagues • We will not cover
relative issues of digital
• We will only talk about dangers such us Cyber
digital attack issues Bullying, Fake News,
Sexting, etc
Overview of the presentation
• Some Numbers
• “Hackers”: Who and Why?
• Cyber Security milestones
• Common Cyber Attack concepts and techniques
• Let’s share a story
• Some more Terms
• Additional Resources
• Quiz Game
Some Numbers
Κ.Κουμάκης - Ημέρα Ασφαλούς Διαδικτύου 2019
Hacking and Hackers

Cyber Security = Hacking?
Who it might be?
The Hacking Game: It is in our Human Nature
Hackers: Users:
• Financial Gain • Are in harry
• Proof of Capability • Make Mistakes
• Fame • wrong judgment
• Curiosity • Show good faith
• “Not going to happen to me” attitude • “Not going to happen to me” attitude
Source:
BlackHat USA 2016 BenchMarks
Cyber Security Milestones
Personal data
Most Common Threats and Attack Techniques
Stalkerware: A special kind of Spyware
Ransomware Threats grow through time
BRUTE FORCE ATTACK
WHAT IT DOES
Brute Force Attacks refer to a trial and error
method utilized to find the username and
password mixes in order to gain access to an
account
• Dictionaries are being used

• Automated software can perform millions of trials in minutes
• Potentially can hack every existing account, but…
• …demands a very long time for strong passwords
• “old – school”, but still popular method
Are you a little confused?
TECHNIQUES, METHODS AND CATEGORIES OVERLAPING
• Malware categories are not quite clear

• Some infections adopts characteristics from many categories
• Combination of methods/techniques on many attacks
Spam
Pretexting
Fake phone
calls
Phishing
…
SOCIAL ENGEENIRING
Spam
Adware
Pharming
…
VIRUSES
MALWARE RANSOMWARE
KEYLOGGERS
SPYWARE
… Can get to our
PC through
Warm (Copies It’s Pharming/Phishi
… shelf to many
ng techniques
Files/ Machines
Uses Anti-
Analysis Uses Installers
Techniques not / DownLoaders
to get to spread
exterminated WannaCry
RansomWare
…
(2017)
…
Not really a
Could be an Uses Trojan Virus, but
attach on SPAM Horses to hide often
mails mentioned as
0ne
TECHNIQUES, METHODS AND CATEGORIES OVERLAPING
• Malware categories are not quite clear

• Some infections adopts characteristics from many categories
• Combination of methods/techniques on many attacks
MALWARE CATEGORIES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION
LET’S SHARE AND PLAY
• Recall on a Cyber-Attack story that has happened to you or a close person.
• Share your story with us!
• We shall try to recognize (or assume) characteristics in order to categorize it

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GENERAL SECURITY ADVICES
• I keep my device’s Operating System updated
• I use current and updated Cyber - Defense software
• I do not use public devices for very important tasks
(eshoping, ebanking, etc)
• I choose different, unpredictable passwords, do not share
them, and change them occasionally
• I choose “two factor” verification, if optional
...I think twice before I click!

SOME MORE TERMS….
…that every Cyber-Security presentation should contain
• Cryptography
• Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
• Deep Web – Dark Web
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Firewall
• Vulnerabilities
• ….
ADITIONAL RESOURCES
Free Course on edX
www.edx.org/course/cyber-security-basics-a-hands-on-approach
• Free of charge
• Understanding Videos
• Studying Material/Tests/Exams
• Starts from Essential Level of knowledge
ADITIONAL RESOURCES
• Free courses on Coursera, edX, etc

• Training at opensecuritytraining.info
• Educational Articles from Varonis.com
• Educational Articles from other Security Companies
Common Terms for Common People
Thank You!

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Cybersecurity Essentials

Common Terms for Common People

Hacking and Hackers

• Dictionaries are being used

Are you a little confused?

• Malware categories are not quite clear

Are you a little confused?

• Malware categories are not quite clear

• Recall on a Cyber-Attack story that has happened to you or a close person.

• Share your story with us!

• We shall try to recognize (or assume) characteristics in order to categorize it

...I think twice before I click!

• Free courses on Coursera, edX, etc

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