Things to Know: Net Spoofing and Internet Security Attacks
WEB SPOOFING
INTRODUCTION:
Web Spoofing is Tricking Someone into visiting a Website other than one they intend to visit, by creating a similar website. Web Spoofing is a Phishing Scheme. Nearly every aspect of social, government, and commercial activity is moving into electronic settings. The World Wide Web is the de facto standard medium for these services. Inherent properties of the physical world make it sufficiently difficult to forge a convincing storefront or ATM that successful attacks create long-cited anecdotes. As a consequence, users of physical services stores, banks, newspapers have developed a reasonably effective intuition of when to trust that a particular service offering is exactly what it appears to be. However, moving from “bricks and mortar” to electronic introduces a fundamental new problem: bits are malleable.
This paper describes an Internet security attack that could endanger the privacy of World Wide Web users and the integrity of their data. The attack can be carried out on today's systems, endangering users of the most common Web browsers, including Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. In short, the attacker observes and controls everything the victim does on the Web. Spoofing means pretending to be something you are not. In Internet terms it means pretending to be a different Internet address from the one you really have in order to gain something. That might be information like credit card numbers, passwords, personal information or the ability to carry out actions using someone else’s identity. IP spoofing attack involves forging one's source address. It is the act of using one machine to impersonate another.Web spoofing allows an attacker to create a "shadow copy" of the entire World Wide Web. Accesses to the shadow Web are funneled through the attacker's machine, allowing the attacker to monitor the all of the victim's activities including any passwords or account numbers the victim enters. The attacker
INTRODUCTION:
Web Spoofing is Tricking Someone into visiting a Website other than one they intend to visit, by creating a similar website. Web Spoofing is a Phishing Scheme. Nearly every aspect of social, government, and commercial activity is moving into electronic settings. The World Wide Web is the de facto standard medium for these services. Inherent properties of the physical world make it sufficiently difficult to forge a convincing storefront or ATM that successful attacks create long-cited anecdotes. As a consequence, users of physical services stores, banks, newspapers have developed a reasonably effective intuition of when to trust that a particular service offering is exactly what it appears to be. However, moving from “bricks and mortar” to electronic introduces a fundamental new problem: bits are malleable.
This paper describes an Internet security attack that could endanger the privacy of World Wide Web users and the integrity of their data. The attack can be carried out on today's systems, endangering users of the most common Web browsers, including Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. In short, the attacker observes and controls everything the victim does on the Web. Spoofing means pretending to be something you are not. In Internet terms it means pretending to be a different Internet address from the one you really have in order to gain something. That might be information like credit card numbers, passwords, personal information or the ability to carry out actions using someone else’s identity. IP spoofing attack involves forging one's source address. It is the act of using one machine to impersonate another.Web spoofing allows an attacker to create a "shadow copy" of the entire World Wide Web. Accesses to the shadow Web are funneled through the attacker's machine, allowing the attacker to monitor the all of the victim's activities including any passwords or account numbers the victim enters. The attacker