Network security attacks. ARP Poisoning case study

Luminiţa Defta
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Luminiţa Defta: University of Pitesti

Annals - Economy Series, 2010, vol. 4.I, 174-181

Abstract: Arp poisoning is one of the most common attacks in a switched network. A switch is a network device that limits the ability of attackers that use a packet sniffer to gain access to information from internal network traffic. However, using ARP poisoning the traffic between two computers can be intercepted even in a network that uses switches. This method is known as man in the middle attack. With this type of attack the affected stations from a network will have invalid entries in the ARP table. Thus, it will contain only the correspondence between the IP addresses of the stations from the same network and a single MAC address (the station that initiated the attack). In this paper we present step by step the initiation of such an attack in a network with three computers. We will intercept the traffic between two stations using the third one (the attacker).

Keywords: network; security; attacks; arp poisoning; mac. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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