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- Title
Vulnerability Assessment and Evaluation of Associated Attacks on Physical and Virtual Networks.
- Authors
Ashawa, Moses
- Abstract
There is no system in the 21st century that has no vulnerability. Most networks seem to be very secure because the vulnerabilities in them are yet to be discovered. However, these vulnerabilities decrease in networks that undergo regular checks and upgrade in their directories with embedded security parameters which have cryptographic primitives. Lack of network checks has fashioned various attack vectors, which hackers exploit to break into the security of private, public and even virtual networks. Network attacks such as brute forcing, Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack, social engineering and Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) occur as a result of the combinations of several vulnerabilities which are embedded in them. The aim of this paper is to discover vulnerabilities such as weak passwords on networks and to demonstrate some common attacks that are frequently carried out on vulnerable networks which lack strong security primitives. Basic attacks demonstrated in this research were MITM attack, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) poisoning, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) starvation attack and brute forcing. This research was conducted using network attack tools such as Nmap and Ethercap which are attack tools in kali Linux. The results showed that the vulnerabilities on networks range from poor embedment of security parameters on networks, opened network ports, weak and unsalted passwords and a host of others.
- Publication
IUP Journal of Computer Sciences, 2018, Vol 12, Issue 2, p43
- ISSN
2583-441X
- Publication type
Academic Journal