Security Fundamentals: Theory and Practice

Your security is only as good as your weakest link. Read these articles about some of the cooler hacks in recent memory and get an idea of what is possible and where each failure was caused by someone else getting owned.

• Home depot hack
  • https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/target-hackers-broke-in-via-hvac-company/
• RSA Keys
  • https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/the-rsa-hack-how-they-did-it/
• Bit9 Hack
  • https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/02/security-firm-bit9-hacked-used-to-spread-malware/
• NotPetya
  • https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/07/the-medoc-connection.html

Tasks:

1. Write a few sentences about how Home Depot got owned.
2. Write a few sentences on how the RSA hack enabled all the other ownage.
3. Write a few sentences on how the Bit9 hack enabled other ownage.
4. Write a few sentences on how NotPetya was done.