by Police - Bureau of Police Research and Development

The Indian Police Journalnumbers looking for modem carrier having detected modem,it allows to compromise the system that answers to the call. ‣ Wireless Reconnaissance: Information-gathering using thenetwork information using the wireless network. Tracingany wireless network by scanning is called war diving.• Social EngineeringA method of gathering information through non-technical meansinstead of exploiting through the vulnerabilities or exploits.• Gaining accessThe next stage is to gain access. Attackers gain access by enteringinto the remote system through vulnerabilities and exploit themthrough least privilege, subsequently, raising their privilege toadministrator level and compromise the systems using somepassword cracking tools. Once the vulnerabilities of system andnetwork are compromised, attacker has full control over thesystem/network and the privilege escalation would contribute toperform malicious activity.• Maintaining accessNext stage that follows the gaining access stage is the maintainingaccess. The attackers operate to either upload or download thecritical information. As long as the information hunted for is notobtained, attackers maintain their access on the compromisedsystem/network. In order to enable this, sophisticated tools arebeing misused by the hackers. In a physical data theft, the objectthat has been stolen would not be available, whereas in electronicMedia, the object/data that is lost will be available and stolen too.By the time the victim realizes the incident, it would be a longway.Evasion TechniquesEvasion is the process of criminality, wherein the offender tries toavoid detection. Distributed Network, technical complexity, scattered Technically savvy offender can clear the entry into the victims systemor the network, leaving little or no traces.Assessment and ResponseCrime. Consideration for wider range of exploits, volatile nature of100 January - March, 2013