ProgramNetworkSecurityHackingBooksPRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency NSA collects internet communications from various U. S. internet companies. Prospective students visit UATs TechTrek Discovery Expo. UATs Tech Trek exposition is an open house built around the concept of a technology conference. Program Network Security Hacking Books' title='Program Network Security Hacking Books' />Mobile Device Security and Ethical Hacking Training. Imagine an attack surface spread throughout your organization, in the hands of every user, which moves from place to place regularly, stores highly sensitive and critical data, and sports numerous different wireless technologies all ripe for attack. You have it today mobile devices. These devices are the biggest attack surface in most organizations today, yet these same organizations often dont have the skills needed to assess them. NOW COVERING ANDROID NOUGAT, i. This training will assist me and my team with putting a much better security awareness program in place. The maturity model is a great resource. Program Network Security Hacking Books' title='Program Network Security Hacking Books' />OS 1. APPLE WATCH AND ANDROID WEARMobile devices are no longer a convenience technology they are an essential tool carried or worn by users worldwide, often displacing conventional computers for everyday enterprise data needs. You can see this trend in corporations, hospitals, banks, schools, and retail stores throughout the world. Users rely on mobile devices more today than ever before we know it, and the bad guys do too. LEARN HOW TO PEN TEST THE BIGGEST ATTACK SURFACE IN YOUR ENTIRE ORGANIZATIONThis course is designed to give you the skills you need to understand the security strengths and weaknesses in Apple i. OS, Android, and wearable devices including Apple Watch and Android Wear. With these skills, you will evaluate the security weaknesses of built in and third party applications. Youll learn how to bypass platform encryption, and how to manipulate Android apps to circumvent obfuscation techniques. Youll leverage automated and manual mobile application analysis tools to identify deficiencies in mobile app network traffic, file system storage, and inter app communication channels. Youll safely work with mobile malware samples to understand the data exposure and access threats affecting Android and i. OS devices, and youll exploit lost or stolen devices to harvest sensitive mobile application data. TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO EVALUATING MOBILE APPS, OPERATING SYSTEMS, AND THEIR ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURESMore. Understanding and identifying vulnerabilities and threats to mobile devices is a valuable skill, but it must be paired with the ability to communicate the associated risks. Throughout the course, youll review the ways in which we can effectively communicate threats to key stakeholders. Youll leverage tools including Mobile App Report Cards to characterize threats for management and decision makers, while identifying sample code and libraries that developers can use to address risks for in house applications as well. YOUR MOBILE DEVICES ARE GOING TO COME UNDER ATTACK HELP YOUR ORGANIZATION PREPARE FOR THE ONSLAUGHT Through the use of your new skills, youll apply a mobile device deployment penetration test in a step by step fashion. Starting with gaining access to wireless networks to implement man in the middle attacks and finishing with mobile device exploits and data harvesting, youll examine each step in conducting such a test with hands on exercises, detailed instructions, and tips and tricks learned from hundreds of successful penetration tests. By building these skills, youll return to work prepared to conduct your own test, or better informed on what to look for and how to review an outsourced penetration test. Mobile device deployments introduce new threats to organizations including advanced malware, data leakage, and the disclosure of enterprise secrets, intellectual property, and personally identifiable information assets to attackers. Further complicating matters, there simply are not enough people with the security skills needed to identify and manage secure mobile phone and tablet deployments. By completing this course, youll be able to differentiate yourself as having prepared to evaluate the security of mobile devices, to effectively assess and identify flaws in mobile applications, and to conduct a mobile device penetration test all critical skills to protect and defend mobile device deployments. Hide. Im not sure exactly when it happened, but laptops and PCs have become legacy computing devices, replaced by mobile phones and tablets. Just when I thought we were getting a much better handle on the security of Windows, Mac, and other Unix systems, there has been an explosion of new devices wanting to join our networks that simply do not have the same security controls that we rely on in modern, secure networks. Even with their weaknesses, mobile phones are here to stay, and we are being called on to support them more and more. Some organizations try to drag their feet on allowing mobile phones, but that ultimately contributes to the problem if we do not address security, the threats continue to grow, uncontrolled and unmonitored. Fortunately, we can securely deploy, manage and monitor mobile phones and tablets inside our organizations through policy and careful network deployment and monitoring. We need to build some essential skills in analyzing the risks of data leakage in mobile code and in the applications our end users want to run from the app store. And we need to ethically hack our networks to identify the real threat and exposure of mobile phone weaknesses. I wrote this course to help people build their skills in all these areas, focusing on the topics and concepts that are most important and immediately useful. Every organization should have an analyst who has the skills for mobile phone security analysis and deployment. By taking this course, you will become an even more valued part of your organization. And well have lots of geeky fun in getting you thereTake your learning beyond the classroom. Explore our site network for additional resources related to this courses subject matter. PRISM surveillance program Wikipedia. PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States. National Security Agency NSA collects internet communications from various U. S. internet companies. The program is also known by the SIGADUS 9. XN. 45 PRISM collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google Inc. Section 7. 02 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2. The NSA can use these PRISM requests to target communications that were encrypted when they traveled across the internet backbone, to focus on stored data that telecommunication filtering systems discarded earlier,78 and to get data that is easier to handle, among other things. PRISM began in 2. Protect America Act under the Bush Administration. The program is operated under the supervision of the U. S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court FISA Court, or FISC pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA. Its existence was leaked six years later by NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who warned that the extent of mass data collection was far greater than the public knew and included what he characterized as dangerous and criminal activities. The disclosures were published by The Guardian and The Washington Post on June 6, 2. Subsequent documents have demonstrated a financial arrangement between NSAs Special Source Operations division SSO and PRISM partners in the millions of dollars. Documents indicate that PRISM is the number one source of raw intelligence used for NSA analytic reports, and it accounts for 9. NSAs internet traffic acquired under FISA section 7. The leaked information came to light one day after the revelation that the FISA Court had been ordering a subsidiary of telecommunications company Verizon Communications to turn over to the NSA logs tracking all of its customers telephone calls. U. S. government officials have disputed some aspects of the Guardian and Washington Post stories and have defended the program by asserting it cannot be used on domestic targets without a warrant, that it has helped to prevent acts of terrorism, and that it receives independent oversight from the federal governments executive, judicial and legislative branches. On June 1. 9, 2. 01. U. S. President Barack Obama, during a visit to Germany, stated that the NSAs data gathering practices constitute a circumscribed, narrow system directed at us being able to protect our people. Media disclosure of PRISMeditPRISM was publicly revealed when classified documents about the program were leaked to journalists of The Washington Post and The Guardian by Edward Snowden  at the time an NSA contractor  during a visit to Hong Kong. The leaked documents included 4. Power. Point slides, four of which were published in news articles. The documents identified several technology companies as participants in the PRISM program, including Microsoft in 2. Yahoo in 2. 00. 8, Google in 2. Facebook in 2. 00. Paltalk in 2. 00. Fried Green Tomatoes Script. You. Tube in 2. 01. AOL in 2. 01. 1, Skype in 2. Apple in 2. 01. 2. The speakers notes in the briefing document reviewed by The Washington Post indicated that 9. PRISM production is based on Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. The slide presentation stated that much of the worlds electronic communications pass through the U. S., because electronic communications data tend to follow the least expensive route rather than the most physically direct route, and the bulk of the worlds internet infrastructure is based in the United States. The presentation noted that these facts provide United States intelligence analysts with opportunities for intercepting the communications of foreign targets as their electronic data pass into or through the United States. Snowdens subsequent disclosures included statements that government agencies such as the United Kingdoms GCHQ also undertook mass interception and tracking of internet and communications data2. Germany as nightmarish if true2. NSA engaged in dangerous and criminal activity by hacking civilian infrastructure networks in other countries such as universities, hospitals, and private businesses,1. Americans since restrictions are policy based, not technically based, and can change at any time, adding that Additionally, audits are cursory, incomplete, and easily fooled by fake justifications,1. NSA policies encourage staff to assume the benefit of the doubt in cases of uncertainty. The slideseditBelow are a number of slides released by Edward Snowden showing the operation and processes behind the PRISM program. It should be noted that the FAA referred to is Section 7. FISA Amendments Act FAA, and not the Federal Aviation Administration, which is more widely known by the same FAA initialism. Introduction slide. Slide showing that much of the worlds communications flow through the U. S. Details of information collected via PRISMSlide listing companies and the date that PRISM collection began. Slide showing PRISMs tasking process. Slide showing the PRISM collection dataflow. Slide showing PRISM case numbers. Slide showing the REPRISMFISA Web app. Slide showing some PRISM targets. Slide fragment mentioning upstream collection, FAA7. EO 1. 23. 33, and references yahoo. FAA7. 02 Operations, and map. FAA7. 02 Operations, and map. The subheader reads Collection only possible under FAA7. Authority. FAIRVIEW is in the center box. FAA7. 02 Operations, and map. The subheader reads Collection only possible under FAA7. Authority. STORMBREW is in the center box. Tasking, Points to Remember. Transcript of body Whenever your targets meet FAA criteria, you should consider asking to FAA. Emergency tasking processes exist for imminent immediate threat to life situations and targets can be placed on illegible within hours surveillance and stored comms. Get to know your Product line FAA adjudicators and FAA leads. The French newspaper Le Monde disclosed new PRISM slides See Page 4, 7 and 8 coming from the PRISMUS 9. XN Overview presentation on October 2. The British newspaper The Guardian disclosed new PRISM slides see pages 3 and 6 in November 2. PRISM with the Upstream program, and on the other hand deals with collaboration between the NSAs Threat Operations Center and the FBI. Wikimedia Commons keeps copies of the leaked Power. Point slides here  Commons Category PRISM surveillance program along with other associated documents. The programeditPRISM is a program from the Special Source Operations SSO division of the NSA, which in the tradition of NSAs intelligence alliances, cooperates with as many as 1. U. S. companies since the 1. A prior program, the Terrorist Surveillance Program,3. September 1. 1 attacks under the George W. Bush Administration but was widely criticized and challenged as illegal, because it did not include warrants obtained from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. PRISM was authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. PRISM was enabled under President Bush by the Protect America Act of 2. FISA Amendments Act of 2. U. S. government agencies in intelligence collection. In 2. 01. 2 the act was renewed by Congress under President Obama for an additional five years, through December 2. According to The Register, the FISA Amendments Act of 2. U. S. citizens for up to a week without obtaining a warrant when one of the parties is outside the U.