Attacks
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IP Spoofing - a hacker poses as a legitimate host using a fabricated IP address
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Web spoofing - creating fake Web sites
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Ping o'Death - ping with packets larger than 64K
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CGI PHF (Packet Handling Function) can be used to extract password file
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Social engineering method (obtaining username and password from another person)
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Holes in commercial and public domain software (sendmail, flexlm, yppasswd, ftpd, various servers)
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