Mail Hijacking preventing by Authenticating Webmail Outgoing Traffic | ||
| Iraqi Journal of Information Technology | ||
| Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 80-95 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Zeyad Farooq Lutfi; Ethar abdul. W. hachim | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The greatest threat facing people who are using the internet is to get their system hacked by Internet miscreant and eventually getting their privacy violated. Furthermore, their systems can be recruited to attack others and provide weaponry tools for those hackers. Webmail is grading first as an Internet service targeted by Internet Hackers due to the enormous numbers of clients who signed up to this service. Those clients still are facing attacks every single day and though the existing large number of anti-spam and security software, people still getting infected. This paper is presenting different protection approach where all the implementation done within the kernel level which prevent higher level attackers from bypassing this security layer, and the methodology depends on analysis Http Session traffic and request client authentication before forwarding it to the internet. The whole implementation and analysis results are presented. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Mail Hijacking; HTTP session; kernel level; SMTP; MAPI; TCP; Webmail | ||
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