Biblio
Content Delivery Networks(CDN) is a standout amongst the most encouraging innovations that upgrade performance for its clients' websites by diverting web demands from browsers to topographically dispersed CDN surrogate nodes. However, due to the variable nature of CDN, it suffers from various security and resource allocation issues. The most common attack which is used to bring down a whole network as well as CDN without even finding a loophole in the security is DDoS. In this proposal, we proposed a distributed virtual honeypot model for diminishing DDoS attacks and prevent intrusion in securing CDN. Honeypots are specially utilized to imitate the primary server with the goal that the attack is alleviated to the fake rather than the main server. Our proposed layer based model utilizes honeypot to be more effective reducing the cost of the system as well as maintaining the smooth delivery in geographically dispersed servers without performance degradation.
A covert channel is a communication channel that is subjugated for illegal flow of information in a way that violates system security policies. It is a dangerous, invisible, undetectable, and developed security attack. Recently, Packet length covert channel has motivated many researchers as it is a one of the most undetectable network covert channels. Packet length covert channel generates a covert traffic that is very similar to normal terrific which complicates the detection of such type of covert channels. This motivates us to introduce a machine learning based detection scheme. Recently, a machine learning approach has proved its capability in many different fields especially in security field as it usually brings up a reliable and realistic results. Based in our developed content and frequency-based features, the developed detection scheme has been fully trained and tested. Our detection scheme has gained an excellent degree of detection accuracy which reaches 98% (zero false negative rate and 0.02 false positive rate).
SQL injection attack (SQLIA) pose a serious security threat to the database driven web applications. This kind of attack gives attackers easily access to the application's underlying database and to the potentially sensitive information these databases contain. A hacker through specifically designed input, can access content of the database that cannot otherwise be able to do so. This is usually done by altering SQL statements that are used within web applications. Due to importance of security of web applications, researchers have studied SQLIA detection and prevention extensively and have developed various methods. In this research, after reviewing the existing research in this field, we present a new hybrid method to reduce the vulnerability of the web applications. Our method is specifically designed to detect and prevent SQLIA. Our proposed method is consists of three phases namely, the database design, implementation, and at the common gateway interface (CGI). Details of our approach along with its pros and cons are discussed in detail.
In Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a self-organizing session of communication between wireless mobile nodes build up dynamically regardless of any established infrastructure or central authority. In MANET each node behaves as a sender, receiver and router which are connected directly with one another if they are within the range of communication or else will depend on intermediate node if nodes are not in the vicinity of each other (hop-to-hop). MANET, by nature are very open, dynamic and distributed which make it more vulnerable to various attacks such as sinkhole, jamming, selective forwarding, wormhole, Sybil attack etc. thus acute security problems are faced more related to rigid network. A Wormhole attack is peculiar breed of attack, which cause a consequential breakdown in communication by impersonating legitimate nodes by malicious nodes across a wireless network. This attack can even collapse entire routing system of MANET by specifically targeting route establishment process. Confidentiality and Authenticity are arbitrated as any cryptographic primitives are not required to launch the attack. Emphasizing on wormhole attack attributes and their defending mechanisms for detection and prevention are discussed in this paper.