Japan’s Cyber-Attack System “Pure Ghost in the Shell”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jun 22, 2012 05:29 JST
- Tags: 3D CG, Ghost in the Shell, Hacking, Internet, Otaku, Technology, Video Gallery
A Japanese-developed cyber-attack warning visualisation system has lately been earning massive praise for its beautiful graphics, and almost as attention again for its unmistakable similarities to a certain cyberpunk anime…
A video demonstrating the system, dubbed DAEDALUS (“Direct Alert Environment for Darknet And Livenet Unified Security”) and developed by NICT:
Briefly, the trails passing from the central sphere (the Internet) to the orbiting circles (networks) represent external traffic, and generate alerts if identified as suspicious, and the system also identifies and displays traffic patterns passing between networks.
A major objective of the system is monitoring malware activity within and without the network, and watching for DDoS attacks.
The system generates its alerts as XML data which can also be displayed as the boring charts and graphs full of endless hack attempts familiar to anyone charged with monitoring a computer connected to the Internet.
Although it seems to have impressed less technical Japanese and non-Japanese alike with its pretty graphics and clear suitability as a screensaver, there is a certain amount of scepticism about just how useful it is:
“Cool!”
“Looks beautiful, finally we are in the 21st century!”
“It certainly looks easy to understand, but if your network security people can’t manage to monitor your network without something like this you have bigger problems… still, it looks cool.”
“Pretty pointless really, isn’t it?”
“A total rip-off of Ghost in the Shell!”
“They are obviously GitS-inspired. Looks so nice.”
“The ‘warning’ characters are straight from GitS or Eva.”
“Must have been made by aniota.”
“And the guys who made this are a government agency…”
“They said they intended to make it available to the private sector too. It looks great, but I get the impression once you get boarded of it you’ll be returning to your terminal screen.”
“Why is it only the overseas you guys are rejoicing!?”
“Really, this is just a screen-saver.”
“What is the point of making this 3D?”
“A simple graph would probably be more effective?”
“Next you will have people competing to see who can make the most cool looking attack on this system…”
“You couldn’t wait to be attacked if you had a system like this!”
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Looks cool and all, but how's the practicality of this?
I figure somewhere between none and it is fucking useless.
Can you imagine what that thing would look like if a DDOS attack was underway?
Tech 1: OMG we are under attack!!!
Tech 2: Quick daedalus will save us!!!
Tech 1: Well fuck
Tech 1: Well fuck the screen is totally blue, how is this useful again?
More like:
Tech 2: Quick, close this silly screensaver and open a terminal!
Probably more than it seems... When managing and monitoring a network of the size they're talking about, it's extremely hard for human operators to keep up to speed on it. You could dig through countless pages of hard to read log files. You could keep screens full of realtime data about transfer rates, pings, data on the origin of the various connections etc, but something could easily happen without you being able to notice it - like trying to watch 100 security cameras at once. So you could even add alerts - popups, text messages, coloring to show when things are going a bit askew, but it still might be hard to keep up with and make sense of it.
So this system looks like it wrangles a ridiculous amount of realtime data together and adds visual highlights to events of interest, allowing the operator to take a closer look where needed, or even realize larger trends such as DDoS attacks or simultaneous intrusions on multiple servers. It may be a sexy interface, but it could also hold some real power as a very big-picture management tool.
Daedalus reminds me Sora no Otoshimono.
"Unnecessary" I understand, "waste of resources to produce" I can get. These aren't really relevant to already-complete software though, it's too late.
And aren't charts and graphs also a convenient visual representation of numerical data? Not that this glorified aquarium puts function before form, of course.
The real question at this point is effectiveness. Is the way it is displaying data effective? Can humans make sense of it? And, does the software accurately detect intrusions?
By the time humans make sense of it, it's came and gone.
If the automated scripts do their jobs to block out sources of DDoS making too many calls, that "visualization" won't show anything remarkable. If it does, it's because it already failed.
The popularized idea of rows of operators typing on keyboards against cyber attackers is utterly stupid.
The purpose of this program is to allow administrators to watch porn all day, alt-tabbing to the fancy graphics whenever the boss comes around. With all those lines and warning signs, there'll be no doubt they are working their asses off doing a critical job.
If by "waste of resources" you mean, a weekend pet project by one of the developers, then yes. It's not really that time consuming to make a 3D screensaver like that if the developer is already familiar with 3D development and some college math.
There is no such thing as "complete software". All software is in development or deprecated. (well that's not really true, but you will be surprised how close it is)
Well duh,what do you think the words "chart" and "graph" mean?
agreed this this is totaly useless. It may be funny for 10mn but when shit gets serious you'll have get back charts and OS console
the orbiting thing sure is pretty but just makes it harder to follow
everything "evolves" not that the naysayers like yourself will do any different as they have always been doing.
but there are other people who will adapt to new ways of doing things - either because its new or they simply have a better appreciation for new tech as it is released into the new market.
it to will evolve as time goes by.
this is totally unavoidable - its called progress.
That's not quite it. This isn't a matter of progress but of something being user friendly. The exact opposite happens when a new technology is developed. If it is difficult to use it hinders it spread and usually ends up forgotten for something easier.
What most people don't understand is that you can't make something original for originality's sake and expect it to be a success. Development is much more successful if you improve upon and add new uses to familiar tech. This is progress. This is "evolution" and not "revolution" which no one knows how it will turn out.
Technology isn't difficult to use, people are just too lazy to read the fucking manual.
People ARE 2 Fucking lazy
it won't spread I mean
Not everything evolves. In particular things without the capacity to mutate have a major problem with it. Rocks for example are literally as old as time itself, but they have a surprising resistance to sentience or any form of adaptation for that matter.
It can only observe the Internet not prevent network attacks.
Yeah right, because showing a security system off is gonna make hackers shy away from it....
/sarcasm
You people don't get it.
No one expect network admins to spend all day watching this thing. However, it will be very useful when they have to explain why their network was screwed. Rather than showing the higher-ups a table with a bunch of IPs their firewall should have filtered out, they pull out this. Instantly, it will seem they were doing their best against a sophisticated intruder.
It would also make it easier for the average twit to figure out what's going on when their computer craps out.
This is Phase 2 of the Gundam plan.
Phase 1 was to make a frame that actually stood up, and it worked.
Phase 2:
A system that detects incoming threats such as missiles and enemy movements. The system shown above.
Phase 3 will be interacting with the Phase 2 interface to enter battle mode.
I prefer Bubblegum Crisis than GIS.
HURR and GITS's visuals are a rip off of the OPTE project. DURRRRR
GitS started in 1989, OPTE was 2003. Wat.
The shit is, Chinese military hackers with their boring XML interfaces are probably more effective and would rape Japan's entire cyber-infrastructure in an instance...
And Japan will make a new anime from it using this softwares.
Anyone got some cool HD wallpapers of DAEDALUS or GiTS ?
Well, it's alway good to have something shiny to those that just won't get the actual stuff. Like your boss.
But... Daedalus? Come on,..
Have you never played the first Deus Ex ?
Grey Death in 3, 2, 1 ...
I think this looks pretty boss. The graphics look like something out of GitS, Eva, or Macross Frontier.
:\ i thought it was cool.
Yes, why must people be so down on this?
People think it's hip to be a jaded internet 'expert.'
Meanwhile officials deny all rumors about the existence of a project Iracus. The government maintains their position that all mysterious connections between Daedalus and Area 51 are caused by a software bug.
“Next you will have people competing to see who can make the most cool looking attack on this system…”
Thousand times this.
Anyway, looks cool, totally useless from a sec standpoint though.
Its definitely themed like GitS, but is that really a bad thing? We mainly liked GitS because it was a nice look at our possible future, and every step we take in that direction just makes it look more and more like the ideal.
Admittedly, this fancy looking program is useless at the moment when compared with the more practical way that currently exists, but eventually it'll get more complex as the internet does and will be the easier of the 2 options.
It may become so automated that it filters malware out before it gets to the "gate."
Totally agree with you, sir. When there is lot of critical realtime information some kind of visualizer is a must.
In some way or for everyone who wanted to be a programmer/hacker when they were kids, imagined that programming/hacking looks something like DAEDALUS (or something similar).
As a Ghost in the shell fan, I must say I'm very.....hhhhhhggggggggggnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.....Sorry, my heart stopped for a moment.
They don't connect people's brains to web though.
I believe the word you're looking for there is: Yet.
They don't connect people's brains to the web, yet..
They can connect your brain to prosthetic limbs, it's been done before. It's only a matter of time, I'd say a few decades at most, before you can wire yourself to your computer.
Chart of 100 lines of utter crap.
Some red, some bolded out...
or...
Above?
It reacts in real time.
It shows things of interest, aka more used = bigger.
Blue turns to red when something is up.
Heck yes. Easy to use and looks great. Sign me up.
If you ask me, It's just like Kinect: it may or may not look useless now, but everything great in life starts small. These are the first steps to something that could very possibly become the most common and useful method in the near future, whenever -if ever- they perfect it.
Well, maybe Kinect was a bad example... but you get the idea.
People can hack it with a local virus made in C++
If people can put random binaries on your "secure" system, you are doing the whole security thing wrong.
Also, privilege escalating exploits are not viruses. A virus is something that tries to use a compromised host host to infect other hosts. You know, kind of like what viruses (the fleshy kind) do.
A local virus? How do you suppose that virus was transferred there in the first place?
If the person has access locally, why the fuck would they care?
It's just something like ehterape with a nice 3D interface.