Tijdens deze door studenten gegeven seminar kwamen de volgende onderwerpen aan bod: DDoS, Clickjacking, Social engineering, SQL injectie, XSS, Brute forcing en Man in the middle.
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Criminal expertise plays a crucial role in the choices offenders make when committing a crime, including their modus operandi. However, our knowledge about criminal decision making online remains limited. Drawing on insights from cyber security, we conceptualize the cybercrime commission process as the sequence of phases of the cyber kill chain that offenders go through. We assume that offenders who follow the sequence consecutively use the most efficient hacking method. Building upon the expertise paradigm, we hypothesize that participants with greater hacking experience and IT skills undertake more efficient hacks. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed data from 69 computer security and software engineering students who were invited to hack a vulnerable website in a computer lab equipped with monitoring software, which allowed to collect objective behavioral measures. Additionally, we collected individual measures regarding hacking expertise through an online questionnaire. After quantitatively measuring efficiency using sequence analysis, a regression model showed that the expertise paradigm may also apply to hackers. We discuss the implications of our novel research for the study of offender decision-making processes more broadly.
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The aim of the research-by-design project The Hackable City is to develop a research agenda and toolkit that explores the role of digital media technologies for new directions for urban planning and city-making. How can citizens, design professionals, local government institutions and others creatively use digital technologies in collaborative processes of urban planning and management? The project seeks to connect developments of, on the one hand, city municipalities that develop smart-city policies and testing these in ‘urban living labs’ and, on the other hand, networked smart-citizen initiatives of people innovating and shaping their own living environments. In this contribution we look at how self-builders in urban lab Buiksloterham in Amsterdam have become ‘hackers’ of their own city, cleverly shaping the future development of a brownfield neighbourhood in Amsterdam’s northern quarter.
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Connecting Otherwise is an artistic/design research project initiated by The Hmm and the research department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Sandberg Instituut, alongside a consortium of invited stakeholders from the creative industries and research institutions such as Small File Media Festival, Hackers & Designers, and Stichting LINK. It focuses on the development of interdisciplinary workshop formats exploring regenerative aesthetics and the materiality of digital technologies through hands-on and collective research approaches. Drawing on feminist and decolonial hacking principles and critical making, the project's aim is to make tangible and reimagine digital materiality while resisting extractive tendencies. Promoting regenerative design principles, it addresses the environmental impact of digital technologies and resource depletion, emphasizing art and design’s role in tackling these challenges. We believe the intersectional character of such challenges requires collective and interdisciplinary approaches to design and art making, which are rarely fostered conceptually and practically within the creative industries and educational institutions. The workshops build upon the expertise of the collaborating partners, who bring together art, design, technology, and education and have been instrumental in bridging art and science, supporting artists and designers in contributing to interdisciplinary research environments. Via a series of interconnected workshops the project will engage art and design professionals, educators, and students in material-based research around the social and environmental impact of digital technologies. Participants will explore circuit-making through community craft traditions, embrace ‘slowness’ and ‘lowness’ as frugal and regenerative principles for digital design and art making, and use weaving as a framework for exploring interconnected digital and territorial relationships. The aim is to creatively and critically examine the challenges that (future) art and design practitioners in the creative industries face when building and participating in contemporary digital culture in ways that are both sustainable and equitable.
Ons consortium – 6 mkb’ers, 1 verzekeraar, 2 brancheorganisaties en 2 hogescholen – helpt kleine bedrijven om zich beter te beschermen tegen cyberbedreigingen. Wij ontwerpen een eenvoudige methode – uitvoerbaar op de werkvloer - om kleine bedrijven inzicht te geven in hun digitale kwetsbaarheden. De huidige manieren waarop dit wordt gedaan voor grote bedrijven is niet geschikt voor kleine bedrijven. Daarom maken wij na een risico-inventarisatie een routekaart met inzet van een IT-auditor en studenten. Voor het mkb is het doorgaans lastig om de juiste combinatie tussen maatregelen op het gebied van techniek, gedrag en organisatie te maken. Ons doel is om bedrijven door workshops met gerichte acties beter toe te rusten op cyberaanvallen. Daarnaast zullen we met meerdere phishing- en friendly hacking activiteiten het belang van digitale veiligheid voor de deelnemende mkb ondernemingen onderstrepen, maar tevens hun voortgang monitoren. Uiteraard worden die testaanvallen gecontroleerd en veilig uitgevoerd. Per bedrijf verzamelen wij verschillende momenten data (9 – 12 metingen). Om onze methode te testen, kiezen wij 24 kleine bedrijven uit. Zij worden verdeeld in twee groepen: de experimentele groep en controlegroep. Met workshops zullen wij in eerste instantie alleen de experimentele groep ondersteunen. Aan het eind zullen wij ook de controlegroep een workshop aanbieden, zodat ook zij kunnen profiteren van de opbrengsten uit het project. Wij verwachten dat de experimentele groep beter reageert op cyberaanvallen en meer digitaal veilig gedrag laat zien. Onze methode zal via het Digital Trust Center (ministerie EZK), de NBA (brancheorganisatie accountants) en ONL (brancheorganisatie mkb) en De Goudse Verzekeringen beschikbaar worden gesteld aan het mkb.
Lectorate, part of NHL Stenden Hogeschool
