Wireshark is an available tool has the ability to intercept network traffic when sent in the clear and over a wireless network on which the user has access. Clear text uses non-secure protocols such as HTTP, FTP, TELNET, SMTP, or IMAP. Wireshark allows malicious intruders to read data traffic such as emails, copy security credentials and duplicate files being transferred. Military bases today use Wireshark to test their own wireless networks for any possible security vulnerabilities. When data is encrypted, unless the session key is compromised, the data cannot be read if intercepted. “Man in the Middle” attacks are popular with intruders and data in transit. These attacks occur when an attacker intercepts data, by acting as the proxy or prompting you to click past a message asking you to trust certificates, and alters the signatures by decrypting and re-encrypting the data, including unwanted hitchhikers for the unknowing receiver of the data to free. By using encryption methods, the data will include a hashing algorithm to ensure the data has not been altered while on the way to the receiver. …show more content…
For example, instead of using HTTP you should use HTTPS and instead of using FTP you can use TLS. SSH is the encrypted version of TELNET. “Some encryption in transit will use symmetric encryption and a set session key, but most will use a certificate and asymmetric encryption to securely exchange a session key and then use that session key for symmetric encryption to provide the fastest encryption/decryption. Any protocol that uses either SSL or TLS, uses certificates to exchange Public Keys, and then the Public Keys are used to securely exchange Private Keys, it becomes very difficult for an attacker to
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For a smaller setup – say an office or a home, a AAA radius server is not deployed in the infrastructure. The secret key in this case is usually stored on an access point. In such environment setup, the authentication takes place between the station and the access point.
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Encryption is the most powerful way to secure information by protecting it in the occurrence of theft, loss, or unauthorized access. It scrambles your data by requiring the receiver to have a secret key or password which would allow them to decrypt it. Web browsers indicate encrypted security techniques by showing a “lock” icon in the status bar. Webpages for online shopping will have either “http” at their beginning of the web address or a “lock” icon on the page. Email services should be protected by antivirus software. These
IP – The Internet Protocol (IP) - is the method or protocol by which data is sent from one computer to another on the Internet. Each computer (known as a host) on the Internet has at least one IP address that uniquely identifies it from all other computers on the Internet.
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TOR (Roger Dingledine) is a circuit based low-latency anonymous communication service. TOR is now in its second generation and was developed from the Onion routing program. The routing system can run on several operating systems and protect the anonymity of the user. The latest TOR version supports perfect forward secrecy, congestion control, directory servers, integrity checking and configurable exit policies. Tor is essentially a distributed overlay network which works on the application layer of the TCP protocol. It essentially anonymizes all TCP-based applications like web-browsing, SSH, instant messaging. Using TOR can protect against common form of Internet surveillance known as “traffic analysis” (Electronic Frontier Foundation). Knowing the source and destination of your internet traffic allows others to track your behavior and interests. An IP packet has a header and a dat...
Terrorism is a growing threat in modern times. Ultimately all activities need co-ordination and such co-ordination is facilitated by communication. Terrorist activities need communication as well as any other activity. In order to avoid getting traced, such communication can be done over secure lines on open public networks or hacked private networks.
One of the largest parts of commerce is transaction. Transactions are needed anytime two parties exchange money or information. Since the Information Age has begun, transactions are more common over the Internet, where it is more imperative that transactions are secure (Klein x). Corporations have also become more widespread, which means that cryptography is needed to secu...
For thousands of years cryptography and encryption have been used to secure communication. Military communication has been the leader of the use of cryptography and the advancements. From the start of the internet there has been a greater need for the use of cryptography. The computer had been invented in the late 1960s but there was not a widespread market for the use of computers really until the late 1980s, where the World Wide Web was invented in 1989. This new method of communication has called for a large need for information security. The internet allows people to communicate sensitive information, and if received into the wrong hands can cause many problems for that person.
In this era when the Internet provides essential communication between tens of millions of people and is being increasingly used as a tool for security becomes a tremendously important issue to deal with, So it is important to deal with it. There are many aspects to security and many applications, ranging from secure commerce and payments to private communications and protecting passwords. One essential aspect for secure communications is that of cryptography. But it is important to note that while cryptography is necessary for secure communications, it is not by itself sufficient. Cryptography is the science of writing in secret code and is an ancient art; In the old age people use to send encoded message which can be understand by the receiver only who know the symbolic and relative meaning of that encoded message .The first documented use of cryptography in writing dates back to circa 1900 B.C. Egyptian scribe used non-standard hieroglyphs in an inscription. After writing was invented cryptography appeared spontaneously with applications ranging from diplomatic missives to war-time battle plans. It is no surprise, then, that new forms of cryptography came soon after the widespread development of computer communications. In telecommunications and data cryptography is necessary when communicating in any untrusted medium, which includes any network, particularly the Internet [1].Within the context of any application-to-application communication, there are some security requirements, including:
This paper is going to discuss wireless security from a broad view where I will go into why wireless security is so important, especially today as the ways in which we communicate is changing dramatically. From there I will discuss the multiple wireless security options that are available to give a better understanding of the options given. Then I will go into why exactly not protecting your wireless can be so dangerous with some descriptions on the most dangerous wireless attacks out there today. Finally, I will then discuss how we can better prepare for these types of attacks with a synopsis on several effective security methods that will help to ensure data is securely passed and kept hidden. Wireless is everywhere today whether at home working from your WIFI network to work where you might be linked to a wireless network or even through your phone through a 3G or 4G network to connect to an open wireless network.
The downside of this technology is the potential for security problems. Intruders can see packets traveling on a network and can perhaps interpret them to obtain confidential information.