Title :
Analysis of Credential Stealing Attacks in an Open Networked Environment
Author :
Sharma, A. ; Kalbarczyk, Z. ; Iyer, R. ; Barlow, J.
Author_Institution :
Coordinated Sci. Lab., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
This paper analyses the forensic data on credential stealing incidents over a period of 5 years across 5000 machines monitored at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. The analysis conducted is the first attempt in an open operational environment (i) to evaluate the intricacies of carrying out SSH-based credential stealing attacks, (ii) to highlight and quantify key characteristics of such attacks, and (iii) to provide the system level characterization of such incidents in terms of distribution of alerts and incident consequences.
Keywords :
computer crime; computer forensics; computer network security; open systems; Illinois University; Intrusion detection; National Center for Supercomputing Application; credential stealing attack; forensic data; open networked environment; Authentication; Detectors; Forensics; IP networks; Linux; Monitoring; Credential stealing; Incident analysis; Intrusion detection;
Conference_Titel :
Network and System Security (NSS), 2010 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8484-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4159-4
DOI :
10.1109/NSS.2010.56