Security and the Networked Society

309 Pages·2013·4.639 MB·English

by  Mark A. Gregory, David Glance (auth.)

Mark A. Gregory · David Glance
Security
and the
Networked
Society
Security and the Networked Society

Mark A. Gregory (cid:129) David Glance

Security and the Networked
Society
Foreword by Margaret Gardner AO and Robyn Owens
Mark A. Gregory David Glance
RMIT University University of Western Australia
Melbourne , VIC , Australia Crawley , WA , Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-02389-2 ISBN 978-3-319-02390-8 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-02390-8
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The authors would like to thank The
Conversation ( h ttp://www.theconversation.
edu.au ) and Technology Spectator
( http://www.technologyspectator.com.au ) .
Special thanks goes to the editors who
assisted with the preparation of the
material included in this book: From The
Conversation Andrew Jaspan, Misha
Ketchell, Helen Westerman, Matt De Neef,
Paul Dalgarno, Bella Counihan, Gillian
Terzis and Charis Palmer and from
Technology Spectator Supratim Adhikari
and Harrison Polites. Thanks also to our
universities RMIT University and
University of Western Australia for
supporting The Conversation and enabling
us to develop our writing and ideas.

Foreword
The digital era has brought the world, in all its variety and constant change, closer
to us, as physical boundaries become less important. We benefi t from the multiple
connections and the speed with which we can make them. We struggle with the way
this changes fundamentally so many aspects of our lives.
This collection of articles about the impacts—positive and negative—that
these advances in digital technologies are having on our lives had its origins in The
Conversation.
The Conversation, of which RMIT University is a Strategic Partner, provides a
means by which academics and researchers can provide their views and expertise
direct to the public. It allows faster and broader communication of the ideas and
assessments of researchers. It is shaping public debate and discourse and hopefully
deepening our public conversations.
This collection of material from The Conversation is a thoughtful consideration
of where such technologies may take us in the future. And it is itself a demonstra-
tion of how far such technologies have taken us already.
Professor Margaret Gardner AO
Vice-Chancellor and President
RMIT University
The use of technology has always been a driving force in the growth and development
of humanity. Although it is now easy to see the general pervasiveness of digital
technologies and their overall impact within various societies around the world, we
can now capture the exact points in time when new technologies are created and
how they develop as they come into contact and are modifi ed by their users. As a
result of this, our understanding of the signifi cance of sentinel events in the story of
technology and society in recent years has been better than for any other time in
history. This collection of articles synthesizes the detail and signifi cance of the
important infl exions in the growth of social networks, smartphone use, cybercrime,
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hacking, and cyber security. For anyone making sense of how governments and
societies fi rst experienced the collective hacktivism of Anonymous, for example,
the articles in this book capture stories of their rise into, and from, prominence.
Since fi rst being published, the articles presented in this book have been viewed
collectively about 300,000 times and have provoked wide-ranging discussion
amongst their readers. Taken collectively, they form an extremely valuable resource
for those wanting to understand where technology is likely to take us in the future.
Professor Robyn Owens
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
The University of Western Australia
Contents
1 Introduction ............................................................................................... 1
2 Hacking ...................................................................................................... 3
2.1 Hacking, Cracking and the Wild, Wild Web ...................................... 3
2.1.1 Who’s Hacking Who? ............................................................. 5
2.1.2 The Wild, Wild Web ............................................................... 5
2.1.3 Colour-Coded Hacking ........................................................... 5
2.1.4 Crackers .................................................................................. 6
2.1.5 Hack Attacks .......................................................................... 6
2.1.6 Stuxnet .................................................................................... 6
2.2 Anonymous, Child Porn and the Wild, Wild Web ............................. 7
2.3 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Tipping a Black
Hat to the DefCon Hackers ................................................................ 9
2.3.1 DefCon ................................................................................... 10
2.3.2 Government Hackers .............................................................. 11
2.4 Are Anonymous Hackers Really on Trial, or Is FBI
Payback Misdirected? ........................................................................ 12
2.4.1 Payback ................................................................................... 13
2.4.2 DDoS ...................................................................................... 14
2.4.3 Kicking an Open Door ............................................................ 15
2.5 Comodo Hacker, TurkGuvenligi…Out for Lulz
or Breaking the Internet? ................................................................... 16
2.5.1 Comodo Hacker Breaks SSL .................................................. 16
2.5.2 Comodo Hacker Reprised ....................................................... 17
2.5.3 TurkGuvenligi Breaks DNS ................................................... 18
2.5.4 The Internet Is Broken ............................................................ 18
2.5.5 Solutions to Fix the Internet? ................................................. 19
2.6 Betrayed? LulzSec Arrest Over Sony Hack Reveals
Trust Issues ........................................................................................ 20
2.6.1 Betrayal ................................................................................... 20
2.6.2 Just Business, Right? .............................................................. 21
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