Deployment of low-level sensor/actor for security analysis : Man in the middle attack on the communication between the USB mouse and a client

ISBN-13: 9783639076813 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 128 str.

Hassan Moussif

Opis

The USB is specified to be an industry-standardextension to the PC architecture, in my Work, I willcheck the security of USB standards, Iwill build a second test-platform to test and analyzethe USB interface and the USB communication, in theend I will estimate the complexity of extending thetwo platforms in one test-platform. Sensor and actorfor USB interface will be added so that the actoroperates on the USB device which is a black-box. Thesensor intercepts the communication between the actorand the device. The communication will be monitoredvia the host in the Middle, so here the sensor andthe actor doesn t satisfy the semantic of sensorslike pressure or temperature sensor which are wellknown in the industry, but this scene is simply aconstruction of software and hardware known incryptography by Man In The Middle attack. This willyield conclusions for security vulnerability of theUSB- Interface, furthermore case scenarios will bediscussed, amongst other hardware interfaces likePCI, PCI express and the IEEE 1394.

O autorze

Geboren in Casablanca Marokko.
Studium der Pharmazie an der "Facultées universitaires notre dame
de la paix de Namur" Belgien.
Erwerben der deutschen Sprache und Absolvierung des
Studienkollegs an der RWTH Aachen.
Studium der Informatik mit Nebenfach Medizin an der RWTH Aachen
und der Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main.