Improving the security of protected wireless internet access from insider attacks
Although some of public wireless Internet access (Wi-Fi) networks are protected by encryption mechanisms such as WEP and WPA, connected hosts are still unnecessarily visible and accessible. Because there is no need to use shared resources in these networks, internal adversaries can misuse IP visibil...
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Convergence Information Society. Korea
2012
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| author | Janbeglou, Maziar Zamani, Mazdak Ibrahim, Suhaimi |
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| description | Although some of public wireless Internet access (Wi-Fi) networks are protected by encryption mechanisms such as WEP and WPA, connected hosts are still unnecessarily visible and accessible. Because there is no need to use shared resources in these networks, internal adversaries can misuse IP visibility in shared media. In this paper, some of the common internal targeted attacks towards these networks are studied. In addition, the security of protected public wireless networks is improved by putting each host in a dedicated VLAN, assigning random IP configurations to each, and filtering out all inter-communications packets. The experimental results show that invisible hosts were protected against inside targeted attacks. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-339282018-11-30T06:41:32Z http://eprints.utm.my/33928/ Improving the security of protected wireless internet access from insider attacks Janbeglou, Maziar Zamani, Mazdak Ibrahim, Suhaimi QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Although some of public wireless Internet access (Wi-Fi) networks are protected by encryption mechanisms such as WEP and WPA, connected hosts are still unnecessarily visible and accessible. Because there is no need to use shared resources in these networks, internal adversaries can misuse IP visibility in shared media. In this paper, some of the common internal targeted attacks towards these networks are studied. In addition, the security of protected public wireless networks is improved by putting each host in a dedicated VLAN, assigning random IP configurations to each, and filtering out all inter-communications packets. The experimental results show that invisible hosts were protected against inside targeted attacks. Convergence Information Society. Korea 2012-06 Article PeerReviewed Janbeglou, Maziar and Zamani, Mazdak and Ibrahim, Suhaimi (2012) Improving the security of protected wireless internet access from insider attacks. Advances in Information Sciences and Service Sciences, 4 (12). pp. 170-181. ISSN 1976-3700 http://www.globalcis.org/dl/citation.html?id=AISS-1269&Search=Improving%20the%20security%20of%20protected%20wireless%20internet%20access%20from%20insider%20attacks&op=Title |
| spellingShingle | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Janbeglou, Maziar Zamani, Mazdak Ibrahim, Suhaimi Improving the security of protected wireless internet access from insider attacks |
| title | Improving the security of protected wireless internet access from insider attacks |
| title_full | Improving the security of protected wireless internet access from insider attacks |
| title_fullStr | Improving the security of protected wireless internet access from insider attacks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improving the security of protected wireless internet access from insider attacks |
| title_short | Improving the security of protected wireless internet access from insider attacks |
| title_sort | improving the security of protected wireless internet access from insider attacks |
| topic | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
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