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The Need for Information Security in Today's Economy
The advancement of technology, the Internet, and information sharing has had both positive and negative impacts. One of the negative impacts was the large increase in new "information" threats. The ...
Written by: Jeff Tarte and added on April 26, 2011Monitoring The ARP Protocol On Local Area Networks
This practical assignment is a research paper on how to use the ARP
Written by: David Fuselier and added on June 28, 2011Arpwatch
Arpwatch is a tool that monitors ethernet activity and keeps a database of ethernet/ip address pairings. It also reports certain changes via email. Arpwatch uses libpcap, a system-independent interface for ...
Document added on Feb. 11, 2011Slow Down Internet Worms With Tarpits
In this article, we'll discuss a new twist on an under-utilized technology: the tarpit. The recent and prolific spread of Internet worms has yet again demonstrated the vulnerability of network ...
Document added on March 28, 2011The Achilles Heal of DNS
One of the four categories of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks list by Scambray, McClure, and Kurtz is "Routing and DNS attacks."1 This refers to attacks which corrupt the information ...
Written by: Christopher Irving and added on Feb. 26, 2011Keys to Successful Incident Response Teams
Incident Response Teams (IRTs) initially evolved in response to the growing threat of viruses and hacker attempts. In late 1988, a worm infected nearly 10 percent of the computers existing ...
Document added on April 15, 2011Packet Sniffing In a Switched Environment
This paper focuses on the threat of packet sniffing in a switched environment, and briefly explores the effect in a non-switched environment. Detail is given on techniques such as "ARP ...
Written by: Tom King and added on Jan. 25, 2011Finding dsniff on Your Network
This paper covers some ways to detect dsniff and two of its utilities, arpspoof and macof, on a network. Arpspoof and macof tools were used with dsniff to determine if ...
Written by: Richard Duffy and added on March 15, 2011Defense Against the DoS/DDoS Attacks on Cisco Routers
<br><font size="3"><b>Abstract</b></font><br> <i> DoS/DDoS attacks are a virulent, relatively new type of Internet attacks, they have caused some biggest web sites on the world -- owned by the most famous ...
Written by: Hang Chau and added on July 6, 2011Denial of Service (DOS) Attacks
During the release of a new software product specialized to track spam, ACME Software Inc noticed that there was not as much traffic as they hoped to receive. During further ...
Written by: Jeremy Martin and added on Feb. 16, 2011