Detecting Malice eBook - Fraud Loss Prevention

Fraud Loss Prevention eBook

Every day hackers are stealing millions from websites and this is the book that will help you detect it happening on yours. Detecting Malice was written to help website administrators, developers, operations personelle and security product managers in building and maintaining a higher security posture. Understanding user intent is the cornerstone for reducing fraud ratios in modern web applications. From retail to government, this book covers many different realms of fraud and how to detect it at many different technical layers. From DNS and TCP to embedded content and browser fingerprinting techniques it is possible to identify users who are most likely to become dangerous often before it actually happens. A plethora of tools and techniques are all available to you within the 300+ pages of this book.

Table of Contents:

Detecting Malice: Preface     User Disposition     Deducing Without Knowing     Book Overview     Who Should Read This Book?     Why Now?     A Note on Style     Working Without a Silver Bullet     Special Thanks   Chapter 1 - DNS and TCP: The Foundations of Application Security     In the Beginning Was DNS     Same-Origin Policy and DNS Rebinding     DNS Zone Transfers and Updates     DNS Enumeration     TCP/IP     Spoofing and the Three-Way Handshake     Passive OS Fingerprinting with pOf     TCP Timing Analysis     Network DoS and DDoS Attacks     Attacks Against DNS     TCP DoS     Low Bandwidth DoS     Using DoS As Self-Defense     Motives for DoS Attacks     DoS Conspiracies     Port Scanning     With That Out of the Way...   Chapter 2 - IP Address Forensics     What Can an IP Address Tell You?     Reverse DNS Resolution     WHOIS Database     Geolocation     Real-Time Block Lists and IP Address Reputation     Related IP Addresses     When IP Address Is A Server     Web Servers as Clients     Dealing with Virtual Hosts     Proxies and Their Impact on IP Address Forensics     Network-Level Proxies     HTTP Proxies     AOL Proxies     Anonymization Services     Tor Onion Routing     Obscure Ways to Hide IP Address     IP Address Forensics     To Block or Not?   Chapter 3 - Time     Traffic Patterns     Event Correlation     Daylight Savings     Forensics and Time Synchronization     Humans and Physical Limitations     Gold Farming     CAPTCHA Breaking     Holidays and Prime Time     Risk Mitigation Using Time Locks     The Future is a Fog   Chapter 4 - Request Methods and HTTP Protocols     Request Methods     GET     POST     PUT and DELETE     OPTIONS     CONNECT     HEAD     TRACE     Invalid Request Methods     Random Binary Request Methods     Lowercase Method Names     Extraneous White Space on the Request Line     HTTP Protocols     Missing Protocol Information     HTTP 1.0 vs. HTTP 1.1     Invalid Protocols and Version Numbers     Newlines and Carriage Returns     Summary   Chapter 5 - Referring URL     Referer Header     Information Leakage through Referer     Disclosing Too Much     Spot the Phony Referring URL     Third-Party Content Referring URL Disclosure     What Lurks in Your Logs     Referer and Search Engines     Language, Location, and the Politics That Comes With It     Google Dorks     Natural Search Strings     Vanity Search     Black Hat Search Engine Marketing and Optimization     Referring URL Availability     Direct Page Access     Meta Refresh     Links from SSL/TLS Sites     Links from Local Pages     Users' Privacy Concerns     Determining Why Referer Isn't There     Referer Reliability     Redirection     Impact of Cross-Site Request Forgery     Is the Referring URL a Fake?     Referral Spam     Last thoughts   Chapter 6 - Request URL     What Does A Typical HTTP Request Look Like?     Watching For Things That Don’t Belong     Domain Name in the Request Field     Proxy Access Attempts     Anchor Identifiers     Common Request URL Attacks     Remote File Inclusion     SQL Injection     HTTP Response Splitting     NUL Byte Injection     Pipes and System Command Execution     Cross-Site Scripting     Web Server Fingerprinting     Invalid URL Encoding     Well-Known Server Files     Easter Eggs     Admin Directories     Automated Application Discovery     Well-Known Files     Crossdomain.xml     Robots.txt     Google Sitemaps     Summary   Chapter 7 - User-Agent Identification     What is in a User-Agent Header?     Malware and Plugin Indicators     Software Versions and Patch Levels     User-Agent Spoofing     Cross Checking User-Agent against Other Headers     User-Agent Spam     Indirect Access Services     Google Translate     Traces of Application Security Tools     Common User-Agent Attacks     Search Engine Impersonation     Summary   Chapter 8 - Request Header Anomalies     Hostname     Requests Missing Host Header     Mixed-Case Hostnames in Host and Referring URL Headers     Cookies     Cookie Abuse     Cookie Fingerprinting     Cross Site Cooking     Assorted Request Header Anomalies     Expect Header XSS     Headers Sent by Application Vulnerability Scanners     Cache Control Headers     Accept CSRF Deterrent     Language and Character Set Headers     Dash Dash Dash     From Robot Identification     Content-Type Mistakes     Common Mobile Phone Request Headers     X-Moz Prefetching     Summary   Chapter 9 - Embedded Content     Embedded Styles     Detecting Robots     Detecting CSRF Attacks     Embedded JavaScript     Embedded Objects     Request Order     Cookie Stuffing     Impact of Content Delivery Networks on Security     Asset File Name Versioning     Summary   Chapter 10 - Attacks Against Site Functionality     Attacks Against Sign-In     Brute-Force Attacks Against Sign-In     Phishing Attacks     Registration     Username Choice     Brute Force Attacks Against Registration     Account Pharming     What to Learn from the Registration Data     Fun With Passwords     Forgot Password     Password DoS Attacks     Don’t Show Anyone Their Passwords     User to User Communication     Summary   Chapter 11 - History     Our Past     History Repeats Itself     Cookies     JavaScript Database     Internet Explorer Persistence     Flash Cookies     CSS History     Refresh     Same Page, Same IP, Different Headers     Cache and Translation Services     Uniqueness     DNS Pinning Part Two     Biometrics     Breakout Fraud     Summary   Chapter 12 - Denial of Service     What Are Denial Of Service Attacks?     Distributed DoS Attacks     My First Denial of Service Lesson     Request Flooding     Identifying Reaction Strategies     Database DoS     Targeting Search Facilities     Unusual DoS Vectors     Banner Advertising DoS     Chargeback DoS     The Great Firewall of China     Email Blacklisting     Dealing With Denial Of Service Attacks     Detection     Mitigation     Summary   Chapter 13 - Rate of Movement     Rates     Timing Differences     CAPTCHAs     Click Fraud     Warhol or Flash Worm     Samy Worm     Inverse Waterfall     Pornography Duration     Repetition     Scrapers     Spiderweb     Summary   Chapter 14 - Ports, Services, APIs, Protocols and 3rd Parties     Ports, Services, APIs, Protocols, 3rd Parties, oh my…     SSL and Man in the middle Attacks     Performance     SSL/TLS Abuse     FTP     Webmail Compromise     Third Party APIs and Web Services     2nd Factor Authentication and Federation     Other Ports and Services     Summary   Chapter 15 - Browser Sniffing     Browser Detection     Black Dragon, Master Reconnaissance Tool and BeEF     Java Internal IP Address     MIME Encoding and MIME Sniffing     Windows Media Player “Super Cookie”     Virtual Machines, Machine Fingerprinting and Applications     Monkey See Browser Fingerprinting Software – Monkey Do Malware     Malware and Machine Fingerprinting Value     Unmasking Anonymous Users     Java Sockets     De-cloaking Techniques     Persistence, Cookies and Flash Cookies Redux     Additional Browser Fingerprinting Techniques     Summary   Chapter 16 - Uploaded Content     Content     Images     Hashing     Image Watermarking     Image Steganography     EXIF Data In Images     GDI+ Exploit     Warez     Child Pornography     Copyrights and Nefarious Imagery     Sharm el Sheikh Case Study     Imagecrash     Text     Text Stenography     Blog and Comment Spam     Power of the Herd     Profane Language     Localization and Internationalization     HTML     Summary   Chapter 17 - Loss Prevention     Lessons From The Offline World     Subliminal Imagery     Security Badges     Prevention Through Fuzzy Matching     Manual Fraud Analysis     Honeytokens     Summary   Chapter 18 - Wrapup     Mood Ring     Insanity     Blocking and the 4th Wall Problem     Booby Trapping Your Application     Heuristics Age     Know Thy Enemy     Race, Sex, Religion     Profiling     Ethnographic Landscape     Calculated Risks     Correlation and Causality     Conclusion   About Robert Hansen

Detecting Malice is written by Robert "RSnake" Hansen, the author of the noted ha.ckers.org web application security lab. Mr. Hansen has spoken at industry conferences around the world and is widely considered to be a foremost expert in web application security and online fraud. Drawing on well over a decade of web application security experience, the book was written to be a relevant look into the deep technical nuances of user interaction. By being extremely observant and having the correct logging in place it is possible to dramatically reduce online fraud. Whether you are simply an enthusiast or are in charge of a Fortune 500, you will gain deep insights into the tools and techniques available to improve fraud loss prevention. Using practical and real-world examples, the book walks through the different layers in a highly digestable way, that is valuable to practitioners at almost every level of technical abilities.

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- "I can tell you that it is, without a doubt, the best web security book I have ever had the pleasure to read." - David Mortman, CSO - Echelon One - "Detecting Malice is a must-read resource for anyone tasked with protecting a website. It is incredibly detained and comprehensive, without all the usual cruft you see filling up other books on the topic. If you have a website, have logs, and want to know what the bad guys are trying to do to you (and trust me, we're all targets), then this is the only resource out there to help you understand what they're doing, how to defend yourself, and how to turn the tables and unmask your attacker. It's written in a very accessible informal style, yet still loaded with content and practical examples." - Rich Mogull, CEO - Securosis - ""Detecting Malice" really is a fantastic opus of WebAppSec wisdom." - Chris Hoff, Director, Cloud & Virtualization Solutions - Cisco - "This book leaves the reader with the conclusion why some web-based attacks go unnoticed. It illustrates why our current tools and techniques are not built to detect them...yet! But just wait until the web security vendors read Detecting Malice!" - Quincy Jackson, IT Security Manager - Universal Weather and Aviation - "Shell out the $39 for the 300 page e-Book Detecting Malice, written by Robert Hansen (aka RSnake, on Twitter at @RSnake) and actually read it. I can't believe I'm actually endorsing a freaking e-Book, but its really that good. I don't know Robert personally, I'm not endorsing it as a favor or because I like him as a person. For all I know he eats puppies for breakfast. But his book is fantastic." - Alison Gianotto, Author of Professional PHP4 Web Development Solutions - "'He does a great job of covering the landscape, talking in plain language without a lot of technical jargon and with many clear examples.... I highly recommend this book, well worth the time and money. It will stimulate your thinking and certainly raise your level of paranoia, and perhaps level of motivation, to lock things down.'" - David Strom - Owner - David Strom Inc. - "'Detecing Malice' by Robert 'RSnake' Hansen is a must read for security technologists, especially incident responders attempting to deal with the constantly advancing threats to web applications. 'Detecting Malice' uses simple language to help readers build a complex technical foundation to understand the most current web attack methodologies. More importantly however, Hansen provides real-world examples of attacks and provides methods to determine the intent of an attacker from a seemingly benign piece of information. This blend of technical know-how and psycho-analysis allows the reader a rare opportunity to understand the art of web application security." - Michael Montecillo, Principle Analyst - EMA - "Anyone I bring it up to first complains about the $40 eBook, but it's the best technical book I've bought in a while." - David Meier, Consultant - Aeritae Consulting Group

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I said a day ago i was gonna talk about something shocking. I'm in no ways gonna break my word..and defently not on this. This is personal...it happened to someone in my faimly   and its a story like this that shouldn't go ignored because it could happen to you.

This family relative..went to a pain clinic to deal with his pain. Went to this doctor for months...then the next thing you know this person had another appointment scheduled where they needed this doctor to fill another prescription only to find out you get no answer on the phone..and you even learn this person's voice mail is full. Not a good sign at all.  However the reason he couldn't see his doctor wasn't because the doctor has a family emergency or anything you would think to be in the tragic category.

No..this person was caught with medicad fraud! Let me repeat that...medicad fraud! I just learned about this last Thursday/Friday.
I was in shock. This is a person you put trust in to take care of your medical problems only to learn of them scamming people and the US government out of millions of dollars. I'm not sure if he was ever caught. I hope the law puts this guy where he belongs..behind bars to serve his time.

I still ask.. why did he do it? Why did he take advantage of patients like this?

I may never know the main reason but heres the story for  you to make your own opinion of it.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6496208.html

This isn't made up..this is real life.

Now after reading this story..just imagine how you would feel knowing someone or even yourself going to this kind of doctor only to learn that this is what they did behind the scenes.


It makes you wonder if they ever thought about your health to begin with doesn't it. But more importantly stories like this shouldn't go ignored. Because tomorrow it could your community, your doctor(s) that pull this kind of stunt. I hope not but stuff like this you don't even think about untill there caught.

Tommrow i'll have something better to post about but for today i just needed to get this off my chest.

Anyways thats why i wanted to post this blog. Please feel free to leave your comments and let me know what you think about these dirt bags. Thank you. :(

I read wonderingsoul  blog about nadia to find out she has been a fraud all of these years.  She has been my friend ever since I came to mindsay.  I cried for her and prayed for her for years.  I felt horrible she was going through so much.  She even pretended to care about me and support me in  my own trauma only to find out she was nothing more than a fake.

 

I poured my sould out on Mindsay not once, not twice, but many times.  I am angry and I don't know who to trust anymore.  I don't know who is being sincere or being honest.

 

This did just affect "Nadia", it affected everyone who knew her and everyone who loved her.  She went to far and didn't care about our feelings.  She did this to get attention.  It is a part of Munchausen a.k.a. ficticious syndrom.  The more attention you get the more you keep doing it and the cycle never stops.

 

I don't know who to trust now. 

The other day I was talking to SaikotikGunman  about receiving an absentee ballot with McPain's picture plastered all over it. I was pretty ticked off about it because I never requested an absentee ballot, and I definitely didn't request to receive such oog-lah in the mail.

Shadeofgray  brought up that I am registered Republican and that is probably why. I saw that as a possible answer until the Obama group I am a part of brought up a very odd piece of news that I had yet to read... check it out, it happened to me and could happen to you:

Progressive talk show host Lee Rayburn has gotten dozens of contacts from voters in Wisconsin, mostly recently moved, who are complaining that they have received unsolicited absentee ballot applications sent to their new addresses (not forwarded) from the McCain campaign, and that those applications have as the return address the county clerk of their FORMER address. While he was talking about this on the air today, other voters from Florida and North Carolina, as well as more from Wisconsin called to report that they had received the same. A number said that the were not registered Democrats, but had donated to Obama, so it appears that the public donor lists were the McCain campaign's source of the names. This had to have been cross-checked with change-of-address info at the BOEs.

This dirty trick serves a dual purpose. First the votes won't be counted. Second, and equally distressing, the inaccurate returned applications will be used by Republican state legislators to claim fraud by Democrats, and to push through laws with harsh voter ID provisions with which it is hard for poorer registrants to comply. This will suppress the vote in future elections.

Everyone who receives absentee ballot applications from the McCain campaign, or any unsolicited absentee ballot applications, needs (a)to not use them, (b)to publicize the problem as widely as possible including their state Democratic Party and the media, and (c)to demand an investigation by their Secretary of State immediately.

(Link)

So I give it to them that I am in fact registered republican. I can see that. But.. 1) I never requested a ballot, 2) I have had 2 changes of address in the past year and a half and 3) I donated to the Obama campaign. So maybe it was a mix up... or maybe anyone who shows any interest in the Obama campaign and is in this position is going to be screwed over. I don't care which party you belong to, this is just wrong.

At least it appears that way. Discover Card shut my card down. I was mad, because whenever this happened before it was for valid charges and there was no reason they should have done this.

However, someone charged $50 to my account from Bed, Bath, & Beyond in Durham, North Carolina.  The card was not swiped, but the number was keyed in. That is extremely strange, especially since I definitely did not order anything from BB&B YESTERDAY. Also I JUST got a new card, and yesterday at Rite-Aid I used the old one instead of the new one, so I thought they closed my card account bc of that.

Anyhow, this is very weird and I'm wondering who got my card #. I'm thinking any moment now I will realize that I bought a gift certificate for my mom or something, but the sad truth is....I DIDN'T!