Obfuscation 1.4 Flashcards
1
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Obfuscation
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- Making something unclear or difficult to understand.
- Hiding something in plain sight
- Security through obscurity.
2
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Obfuscation Strategies
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- Stenography, hiding information inside of an image.
3
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Common Stenography Image Strategies
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- Embedding images in TCP packets
- Embed the image in itself.
- Yellow dots
4
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Audio Stenography
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- Modifies the digital audio file.
- Interlaces a secret message within the audio file.
4
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Video Stenography
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- Sequence of images
- Allows for image stenography on a larger scale.
5
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Tokenization
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- A random value to take the place of a data element that has a traceable meaning.
- Replaces sensitive data with a non-sensitive placeholder.
6
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Tokenization with Credit Cards
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- Use a temporary token during payment.
- Attacker capturing the card numbers can’t use them later.
- Original data and token are not mathematically related.
7
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Data Masking
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- Hiding of data by substituting altered values
- Protects Personable Identifiable Information (PII)
