spoofing
Sub-Prime PKI: Attacking Extended Validation SSL
White Paper EV SSL certificates were created to combat phishing and other web based spoofing attacks which succeed in spite of the DV SSL model for web site identification. One of the attributes that the paper discusses is the type... [02 Oct 2009]
Mail-SeCure: Anti Phishing
White Paper Phishing (also known as carding and spoofing) is a form of social engineering, characterized by attempts to fraudulently acquire sensitive information (such as passwords and credit card details), by masquerading as a... [31 Jul 2009]
Internet Trust Marks: Building Confidence and Profit Online
White Paper The fear of fraud, spoofing, phishing, identity theft, and lax Web site security still have a sizeable percentage of consumers wary of using credit cards online. This paper examines how recent trends in Internet trust... [31 Jul 2009]
Proximity Breeds Danger: Emerging Threats in Metro-Area Wireless Networks
White Paper The paper focuses on three likely attack scenarios: "Wildfire" worms that can spread contagiously over and across wireless LANs, coordinated citywide phishing campaigns based on wireless spoofing, and rogue systems for... [30 Jun 2009]
A Pretty Kettle of Phish
White Paper It's sometimes referred to as "Carding", "Hoax Mail", or "Spoofing". "Phishing" usually refers to the practice of posting a deceptive message as part of an attempt at fraud and/or identity theft. This paper, will refer... [20 Jun 2009]
Mail-SeCure Anti Phishing
White Paper Phishing (also known as carding and spoofing) is a form of social engineering, characterized by attempts to fraudulently acquire sensitive information (such as passwords and credit card details), by masquerading as a... [11 Jun 2009]
Prevention of IP Spoofing in TCP/IP Connection: Vulnerability Ability and Probable Solutions - A Reverse Engineering Approach
White Paper This paper also discusses TCP attack "IP SPOOFING" and recommends steps to improve the security state of a TCP based system. In network environment the computer facilities are interconnected by using the Transmission... [08 May 2009]
Application for a Simple Device Authentication Framework: Device Authentication Middleware Using Novel Smart Card Software
White Paper The purpose of the framework is to prevent device spoofing, and to restrict unauthorized access to the device in a future ubiquitous network. The proposed simple device authentication framework aims to provide... [15 Jan 2009]
Breaking Out of the Browser to Defend Against Phishing Attacks
White Paper By combining visually distinctive display to prevent spoofing, digitally signing these bookmarks to protect them from tampering, and whitelisting of allowed bookmark providers to ensure correctness, it is ensured that... [18 Nov 2008]
On the Effectiveness of Probabilistic Packet Marking for IP Traceback Under Denial of Service Attack
White Paper This paper shows that probabilistic packet marking - of interest due to its efficiency and implementability vis-a-vis deterministic packet marking and logging or messaging based schemes - suffers under spoofing of the... [22 Oct 2008]
An Analysis of Using Reflectors for Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Paper Attackers can render distributed denial-of-service attacks more difficult to defend against by bouncing their flooding traffic off of reflectors; that is, by spoofing requests from the victim to a large set of Internet... [14 Oct 2008]
A Framework for Classifying Denial of Service Attacks
White Paper Automatic classification of attacks as single- or multi-source can help focus a response, but current packet-header-based approaches are susceptible to spoofing. Launching a Denial of Service (DoS) attack is trivial, but... [14 Oct 2008]
Programming Routers to Improve Network Security
White Paper Functional to one's approach is a network signaling protocol, named Active Security Protocol, which allows a set of active routers to interact in order to isolate the sources of a DDoS attack even in the case of address... [19 Sep 2008]
Microsoft widens its Live Mesh web
News It also told international users they could get into the act by spoofing their systems into appearing to be US machines and then gave instructions on how to do so. Microsoft has opened up its Live Mesh service to anyone... [18 Jul 2008]
Experian launches biometric voice ID checks
News This prevents fraudsters spoofing the system with a voice recording of the subject. Experian has launched a voice biometric hosted ID verification service pitched at customer call centres. The VoiceCheck service uses... [23 Jun 2008]