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- Title
DHCP-Enabled LAN Prone to Phishing Attacks.
- Authors
Purkait, Swapan
- Abstract
Phishing is an Internet security issue the contour of which is still changing and the magnitude still increasing. Although researchers across the globe as well as the IT industry experts have identified the urgent need for anti-phishing solutions, we are still playing the catching up role with the phishers. In recent times, major web browsers and antivirus products added built-in filters which can prevent phishing. As of date, there are hundreds of free or paid security toolbars available on the Internet which claim to deter phishing attacks. In this laboratory-based study, we tested how easy it is too bypass all these security toolbars and filters with a rouge Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) server. The study shows how a determined phisher can use rogue DHCP to compromise a DHCP-enabled LAN and mount a successful phishing attack. In the IIT Kharagpur laboratory on a controlled environment, we tested two major web browsers, two security toolbars and an antivirus, and found that none of these countermeasures could detect the attack; more trouble is, all these toolbars gave a go-ahead for all the phishing sites we tested.
- Subjects
INFORMATION technology industry; WEB browsers; COMPUTER network protocols; LAN Manager (Computer software); INTERNET fraud; ANTIVIRUS software
- Publication
IUP Journal of Information Technology, 2013, Vol 9, Issue 1, p24
- ISSN
0973-2896
- Publication type
Article