[Colloq] Director of Information Assurance Program Candidate - Wed. Dec. 8

[Rachel Kalweit]

College of Computer and Information Science and the College of Criminal 
Justice Colloquium

present
Mario A Garcia
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

who will speak on:
A Day in the Future of Information Assurance

Wednesday, December 8, 2004
1:30pm
366 West Village H
Northeastern University

ABSTRACT
Computers take an important role in our daily life. They are used in 
Agriculture, Food, Water, Public Health, Defense Information, and 
Telecommunications, Energy, Transportation, etc. Evil people will 
realize soon that more harm can be done attacking computer networks than 
crashing planes into buildings. The talk is organized in two parts. The 
first part will discuss computer attack methods and the second part will 
focus on computer networks defense.

Two methods used to attack computers will be explained: Password 
cracking tools and malicious logic. Examples of Password cracking tools 
are L0phtcrack, SAMInside John the Ripper, Cain & Abel, Offline NT 
Password & Registry Editor. Examples of Virus, Worms, and Trojan Horses 
are the Morris Worm, Melissa Virus, Chernobyl, and the Love Virus.

The second part of the talk will be about computer network defense where 
Intrusion Prevention, Computer Forensics and Information Assurance 
Education are important components.