Principle of and Protection of Man-in-the-middle Attack Based on ARP Spoofing
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Man-in-the-middle attack is used wildly as a method of attacking the network. To discover how this type of attack works, this paper describes a method of man-in-the-middle attack based on ARP spoofing, and proposes a method of preventing such attacks.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- JIPS
دوره 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009