All pages tagged with spoofing
Wireless LAN: Security Issues and Solutions
This paper begins by introducing the concept of WLAN. The introductory section gives brief information on the WLAN components and its architecture. In order to examine the WLAN security threats, ...
Written by: Rafidah Abdul Hamid and added on Jan. 25, 2011IP Spoofing: An Introduction
Criminals have long employed the tactic of masking their true identity, from disguises to aliases to caller-id blocking. It should come as no surprise then, that criminals who conduct their ...
Written by: Matthew Tanase and added on June 30, 2011Why is securing DNS zone transfer necessary ?
What can be done to secure your DNS information? DNS queries, zone transfers, and dynamic updates can be secured. This paper will focus on the reason for securing DNS zone ...
Written by: Steven Lau and added on April 13, 2011Windows XP and Full Raw Sockets
A new potential threat that could exacerbate this problem may come with the release of Windows XP. This new version of Windows will be aimed at corporate AND consumer markets. ...
Document added on Feb. 7, 2011Email "Spamming" and Email "Spoofing"
Email "spamming" refers to sending email to thousands and thousands of users - similar to a chain letter. Spamming is often done deliberately to use network resources. Email spamming may ...
Written by: London School of Economics and added on April 4, 2011Information Protection Centre: Stage 1 - Active: Assessment Phase
Auto-Response IDS: Many ID systems can be set up to automatically respond with some predefined set of activities upon detection of specified events. In this case some reasonable assessment process ...
Document added on April 21, 2011A Summary of DoS/DDoS Prevention, Monitoring and Mitigation Techniques in a Service Provider Environment
The frequency and sophistication of Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS) on the Internet are rapidly increasing. Service providers are under mounting pressure to prevent, ...
Written by: Michael Glenn and added on June 13, 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, 2011Computer Security Basics
<font size="3"><b>Computer security</b></font><br><br> <i>1. What is computer security?</i><br> Computer security is the process of preventing and detecting unauthorized use of your computer. Prevention measures help you to stop unauthorized users ...
Written by: Manu Arian and added on May 31, 2011