A Lightweight ARP Spoofing Detection Mechanism Using ICMP and ARP Replies in WLAN

Abstract

With the proliferation of handheld mobile devices nowadays users expect to be able to access the Internet and its services anytime and anywhere Consequently Wi-Fi networks have become ubiquitous However most Wi-Fi APs are not encrypted with the result that malicious users can easily hijack the network for their own nefarious purposes ARP spoofing is a particularly common form of attack in which a malicious actor impersonates a legitimate user in order to facilitate further illegitimate activities such as man-in-the-middle attacks denial of service attacks session hijacking and so on To combat the threat posed by such attacks this thesis proposes a lightweight ARP spoofing detection mechanism based on the ARP and ICMP replies in a WLAN network and implements ARP Spoofing to proof the correctness

Date of Award	2017 Sept 12
Original language	English
Supervisor	Hui-Tang Lin (Supervisor)