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		<title>Luongqt at 04:15, 10 December 2007</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Computer security is an important factor in our information world with Internet and digitally owned materials. Over the past twenty years, network security has evolved continuously. More secure implementations are invented to replace old less secure implementations. Kevin Mitnick was able to hack into Tsutomu Shimomura's X-Terminal computer due to early implementation of TCP connection, which was not really secure at that time. With a huge desire of curiosity, Mitnick did something that no one has ever done before him. He exploited the trusted relationship between two computers by performing man-in-the-middle attack under a spoofed identity. His attack made him the most famous hacker in United States of America.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Computer security is an important factor in our information world with Internet and digitally owned materials. Over the past twenty years, network security has evolved continuously. More secure implementations are invented to replace old less secure implementations. Kevin Mitnick was able to hack into Tsutomu Shimomura's X-Terminal computer due to early implementation of &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol &lt;/ins&gt;TCP&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;] &lt;/ins&gt;connection, which was not really secure at that time. With a huge desire of curiosity, Mitnick did something that no one has ever done before him. He exploited the trusted relationship between two computers by performing man-in-the-middle attack under a spoofed identity. His attack made him the most famous &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker &lt;/ins&gt;hacker&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;] &lt;/ins&gt;in &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States &lt;/ins&gt;United States of America&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;]&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:Kevin mitnick FBI.gif|thumb|right|250px|Mitnick on FBI wanted list]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:Kevin mitnick FBI.gif|thumb|right|250px|Mitnick on FBI wanted list]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Who is Mitnick? ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Who is Mitnick? ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:kevinmitnick.jpg|thumb|right|170px|Kevin Mitnick]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:kevinmitnick.jpg|thumb|right|170px|Kevin Mitnick]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:Shimomura.jpg|thumb|right|170px|Tsutomu Shimomura]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:Shimomura.jpg|thumb|right|170px|Tsutomu Shimomura]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnick Kevin Mitnick](born October 6, 1963) is known as &amp;quot;the most famous&amp;quot; hacker in United States of America. He is an expert in [[social engineering]], which helped him to obtain many classified information used for his hacking hobby. In his early age, he was on the FBI most wanted cyber criminal list. He was captured by the FBI with the aid of Tsutomu and sentenced 5 years in prison. Now he is a security consultant in his own firm [http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/index.php Mitnick Security Consulting].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnick Kevin Mitnick](born October 6, 1963) is known as &amp;quot;the most famous&amp;quot; hacker in United States of America. He is an expert in [[social engineering]], which helped him to obtain many classified information used for his hacking hobby. In his early age, he was on the &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fbi &lt;/ins&gt;FBI&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;] &lt;/ins&gt;most wanted cyber criminal list. He was captured by the FBI with the aid of &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu &lt;/ins&gt;Tsutomu&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;] &lt;/ins&gt;and sentenced 5 years in prison. Now he is a security consultant in his own firm [http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/index.php Mitnick Security Consulting].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are no specific mechanisms to detect the Mitnick attack directly. However, a security analyst can combine several mechanisms to detect the attack indirectly. Basically, the attack can be detected by both network-based and host-based intrusion detection systems ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion_detection_system IDS]). For network-based IDS, port scan and host scan can be used to detect a potential attack. For host-based IDS, the attack can be detected using two commonly used UNIX tool, ''TCP wrappers'' and ''tripwire''. For further details, refer to the book '''Network Intrusion Detection, an analyst's hand book''' by ''Stephen Northcutt'' (ISBN: 0-7357-0868-1)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are no specific mechanisms to detect the Mitnick attack directly. However, a security analyst can combine several mechanisms to detect the attack indirectly. Basically, the attack can be detected by both network-based and host-based intrusion detection systems ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion_detection_system IDS]). For network-based IDS, port scan and host scan can be used to detect a potential attack. For host-based IDS, the attack can be detected using two commonly used UNIX tool, ''TCP wrappers'' and ''tripwire''. For further details, refer to the book '''Network Intrusion Detection, an analyst's hand book''' by ''Stephen Northcutt'' (ISBN: 0-7357-0868-1)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Prevention==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Prevention==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nowadays, Mitnick attack is no longer practical because the security in networking field is way improved than before. However, preventing Mitnick attack is the least requirement a system must satisfy to be considered secure. It worths to mention that in the days of the attack, people (e.g. Tsutomu) used remote shell (RSH) instead of secure shell (SSH) like today.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nowadays, Mitnick attack is no longer practical because the security in networking field is way improved than before. However, preventing Mitnick attack is the least requirement a system must satisfy to be considered secure. It worths to mention that in the days of the attack, people (e.g. Tsutomu) used &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_shell &lt;/ins&gt;remote shell (RSH)&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;] &lt;/ins&gt;instead of &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell &lt;/ins&gt;secure shell (SSH)&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;] &lt;/ins&gt;like today.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Comments==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Comments==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Mitnick attack was a classic case. Mitnick took advantage of easy-to-be-known weaknesses. After his attack, computer security was taken more seriously. New tools was developed to improve security in networking over the Internet. SSH (secure shell) is used to replace RSH (remote shell) which allowed data transfered insecurely.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Mitnick attack was a classic case. Mitnick took advantage of easy-to-be-known weaknesses. After his attack, computer security was taken more seriously. New tools was developed to improve security in networking over the Internet. SSH (secure shell) is used to replace RSH (remote shell) which allowed data transfered insecurely.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Luongqt at 04:06, 10 December 2007</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnick Kevin Mitnick](born October 6, 1963) is known as &amp;quot;the most famous&amp;quot; hacker in United States of America. He is an expert in [[social engineering]], which helped him to obtain many classified information used for his hacking hobby. In his early age, he was on the FBI most wanted cyber criminal list. He was captured by the FBI with the aid of Tsutomu and sentenced 5 years in prison. Now he is a security consultant in his own firm [http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/index.php Mitnick Security Consulting].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnick Kevin Mitnick](born October 6, 1963) is known as &amp;quot;the most famous&amp;quot; hacker in United States of America. He is an expert in [[social engineering]], which helped him to obtain many classified information used for his hacking hobby. In his early age, he was on the FBI most wanted cyber criminal list. He was captured by the FBI with the aid of Tsutomu and sentenced 5 years in prison. Now he is a security consultant in his own firm [http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/index.php Mitnick Security Consulting].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Luongqt:&amp;#32;/* Who is Mitnick? */</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnick Kevin Mitnick](born October 6, 1963) is known as &amp;quot;the most famous&amp;quot; hacker in United States of America. He is an expert in [[social engineering]], which helped him to obtain many classified information used for his hacking hobby. In his early age, he was on the FBI most wanted cyber criminal list. He was captured by the FBI with the aid of Tsutomu and sentenced 5 years in prison. Now he is a security consultant in his own firm [http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/index.php Mitnick Security Consulting].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnick Kevin Mitnick](born October 6, 1963) is known as &amp;quot;the most famous&amp;quot; hacker in United States of America. He is an expert in [[social engineering]], which helped him to obtain many classified information used for his hacking hobby. In his early age, he was on the FBI most wanted cyber criminal list. He was captured by the FBI with the aid of Tsutomu and sentenced 5 years in prison. Now he is a security consultant in his own firm [http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/index.php Mitnick Security Consulting].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Three-way handshake==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Three-way handshake==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;If there is a trusted relationship between two computers (e.g. server and client), a connection can be established by a [http://www.pccitizen.com/threewayhandshake.htm three-way handshake]. In the Mitnick attack, the three-way handshake used TCP sequence number and IP address as proof for identity and signature. Three-way handshake has three steps:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;If there is a trusted relationship between two computers (e.g. server and client), a connection can be established by a [http://www.pccitizen.com/threewayhandshake.htm three-way handshake]. In the Mitnick attack, the three-way handshake used TCP sequence number and IP address as proof for identity and signature. Three-way handshake has three steps:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Luongqt at 04:04, 10 December 2007</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Computer security is an important factor in our information world with Internet and digitally owned materials. Over the past twenty years, network security has evolved continuously. More secure implementations are invented to replace old less secure implementations. Kevin Mitnick was able to hack into Tsutomu Shimomura's X-Terminal computer &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;thanks &lt;/del&gt;to early implementation of TCP connection, which was not really secure at that time. With a huge desire of curiosity, Mitnick did something that no one has ever done before him. He exploited the trusted relationship between two computers by performing man-in-the-middle attack under a spoofed identity. His attack made him the most famous hacker in United States of America.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Computer security is an important factor in our information world with Internet and digitally owned materials. Over the past twenty years, network security has evolved continuously. More secure implementations are invented to replace old less secure implementations. Kevin Mitnick was able to hack into Tsutomu Shimomura's X-Terminal computer &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;due &lt;/ins&gt;to early implementation of TCP connection, which was not really secure at that time. With a huge desire of curiosity, Mitnick did something that no one has ever done before him. He exploited the trusted relationship between two computers by performing man-in-the-middle attack under a spoofed identity. His attack made him the most famous hacker in United States of America.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:Kevin mitnick FBI.gif|thumb|right|250px|Mitnick on FBI wanted list]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:Kevin mitnick FBI.gif|thumb|right|250px|Mitnick on FBI wanted list]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Who is Mitnick? ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Who is Mitnick? ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:kevinmitnick.jpg|frame|right|Kevin Mitnick]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:kevinmitnick.jpg|frame|right|Kevin Mitnick]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnick Kevin Mitnick](born October 6, 1963) is known as &amp;quot;the most famous&amp;quot; hacker in United States of America. He is an expert in [[social engineering]], which helped him to obtain many classified information used for his hacking hobby. In his early age, he was on the FBI most wanted cyber criminal list. He was captured by the FBI with the aid of Tsutomu and sentenced 5 years in prison. Now he is a security consultant in his own firm [http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/index.php Mitnick Security Consulting].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnick Kevin Mitnick](born October 6, 1963) is known as &amp;quot;the most famous&amp;quot; hacker in United States of America. He is an expert in [[social engineering]], which helped him to obtain many classified information used for his hacking hobby. In his early age, he was on the FBI most wanted cyber criminal list. He was captured by the FBI with the aid of Tsutomu and sentenced 5 years in prison. Now he is a security consultant in his own firm [http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/index.php Mitnick Security Consulting].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Three-way handshake==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Three-way handshake==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;If there is a trusted relationship between two computers (e.g. server and client), a connection can be established by a [http://www.pccitizen.com/threewayhandshake.htm three-way handshake]. In the Mitnick attack, the three-way handshake used TCP sequence number and IP address as proof for identity and signature. Three-way handshake has three steps:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;If there is a trusted relationship between two computers (e.g. server and client), a connection can be established by a [http://www.pccitizen.com/threewayhandshake.htm three-way handshake]. In the Mitnick attack, the three-way handshake used TCP sequence number and IP address as proof for identity and signature. Three-way handshake has three steps:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;====Step 3: ACK or RESET response====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;====Step 3: ACK or RESET response====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;If computer A wants to establish the connection, it sends an ACK response with number (xB+1) back to computer B. Otherwise, it sends a RESET response to drop the connection request.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;If computer A wants to establish the connection, it sends an ACK response with number (xB+1) back to computer B. Otherwise, it sends a RESET response to drop the connection request.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==The attack==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==The attack==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:Mitnickattack.JPG|thumb|right|500px|The Mitnick attack]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:Mitnickattack.JPG|thumb|right|500px|The Mitnick attack]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Detection ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Detection ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are no specific mechanisms to detect the Mitnick attack directly. However, a security analyst can combine several mechanisms to detect the attack indirectly. Basically, the attack can be detected by both network-based and host-based intrusion detection systems ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion_detection_system IDS]). For network-based IDS, port scan and host scan can be used to detect a potential attack. For host-based IDS, the attack can be detected using two commonly used UNIX tool, ''TCP wrappers'' and ''tripwire''. For further details, refer to the book '''Network Intrusion Detection, an analyst's hand book''' by ''Stephen Northcutt'' (ISBN: 0-7357-0868-1)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are no specific mechanisms to detect the Mitnick attack directly. However, a security analyst can combine several mechanisms to detect the attack indirectly. Basically, the attack can be detected by both network-based and host-based intrusion detection systems ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion_detection_system IDS]). For network-based IDS, port scan and host scan can be used to detect a potential attack. For host-based IDS, the attack can be detected using two commonly used UNIX tool, ''TCP wrappers'' and ''tripwire''. For further details, refer to the book '''Network Intrusion Detection, an analyst's hand book''' by ''Stephen Northcutt'' (ISBN: 0-7357-0868-1)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Prevention==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Prevention==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nowadays, Mitnick attack is no longer practical because the security in networking field is way improved than before. However, preventing Mitnick attack is the least requirement a system must satisfy to be considered secure. It worths to mention that in the days of the attack, people (e.g. Tsutomu) used remote shell (RSH) instead of secure shell (SSH) like today.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nowadays, Mitnick attack is no longer practical because the security in networking field is way improved than before. However, preventing Mitnick attack is the least requirement a system must satisfy to be considered secure. It worths to mention that in the days of the attack, people (e.g. Tsutomu) used remote shell (RSH) instead of secure shell (SSH) like today.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Comments==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Comments==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Mitnick attack was a classic case. Mitnick took advantage of easy-to-be-known weaknesses. After his attack, computer security was taken more seriously. New tools was developed to improve security in networking over the Internet. SSH (secure shell) is used to replace RSH (remote shell) which allowed data transfered insecurely.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Mitnick attack was a classic case. Mitnick took advantage of easy-to-be-known weaknesses. After his attack, computer security was taken more seriously. New tools was developed to improve security in networking over the Internet. SSH (secure shell) is used to replace RSH (remote shell) which allowed data transfered insecurely.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Who is Mitnick? ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Who is Mitnick? ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:kevinmitnick.jpg|frame|right|Kevin Mitnick]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:kevinmitnick.jpg|frame|right|Kevin Mitnick]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnick Kevin Mitnick](born October 6, 1963) is known as &amp;quot;the most famous&amp;quot; hacker in United States of America. He is an expert in [[social engineering]], which helped him to obtain many classified information used for his hacking hobby. In his early age, he was on the FBI most wanted cyber criminal list. He was captured by the FBI with the aid of Tsutomu and sentenced 5 years in &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;prisons&lt;/del&gt;. Now he is a security consultant in his own firm [http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/index.php Mitnick Security Consulting].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnick Kevin Mitnick](born October 6, 1963) is known as &amp;quot;the most famous&amp;quot; hacker in United States of America. He is an expert in [[social engineering]], which helped him to obtain many classified information used for his hacking hobby. In his early age, he was on the FBI most wanted cyber criminal list. He was captured by the FBI with the aid of Tsutomu and sentenced 5 years in &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;prison&lt;/ins&gt;. Now he is a security consultant in his own firm [http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/index.php Mitnick Security Consulting].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Three-way handshake==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Three-way handshake==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
		<id>http://wiki.cas.mcmaster.ca/index.php?title=The_Mitnick_attack&amp;diff=88&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>24.141.170.99:&amp;#32;/* Who is Mitnick? */</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wiki.cas.mcmaster.ca/index.php?title=The_Mitnick_attack&amp;diff=88&amp;oldid=prev"/>
				<updated>2007-12-10T03:20:24Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Who is Mitnick?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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		&lt;td colspan='2' style=&quot;background-color: white; color:black;&quot;&gt;← Older revision&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td colspan='2' style=&quot;background-color: white; color:black;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 03:20, 10 December 2007&lt;/td&gt;
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		&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 3:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 3:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Who is Mitnick? ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Who is Mitnick? ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:kevinmitnick.jpg|frame|right|Kevin Mitnick]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:kevinmitnick.jpg|frame|right|Kevin Mitnick]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnick Kevin Mitnick](born October 6, 1963) is known as &amp;quot;the most famous&amp;quot; hacker in United States of America. He is an expert in [[social engineering]], which helped him to obtain many classified information used for his hacking &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;habbit&lt;/del&gt;. In his early age, he was on the FBI most wanted cyber criminal list. He was captured by the FBI with the aid of Tsutomu and sentenced 5 years in prisons. Now he is a security consultant in his own firm [http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/index.php Mitnick Security Consulting].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnick Kevin Mitnick](born October 6, 1963) is known as &amp;quot;the most famous&amp;quot; hacker in United States of America. He is an expert in [[social engineering]], which helped him to obtain many classified information used for his hacking &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;hobby&lt;/ins&gt;. In his early age, he was on the FBI most wanted cyber criminal list. He was captured by the FBI with the aid of Tsutomu and sentenced 5 years in prisons. Now he is a security consultant in his own firm [http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/index.php Mitnick Security Consulting].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Three-way handshake==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Three-way handshake==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
		<id>http://wiki.cas.mcmaster.ca/index.php?title=The_Mitnick_attack&amp;diff=87&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>24.141.170.99:&amp;#32;/* Three-way handshake */</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wiki.cas.mcmaster.ca/index.php?title=The_Mitnick_attack&amp;diff=87&amp;oldid=prev"/>
				<updated>2007-12-10T03:20:03Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Three-way handshake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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		&lt;td colspan='2' style=&quot;background-color: white; color:black;&quot;&gt;← Older revision&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td colspan='2' style=&quot;background-color: white; color:black;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 03:20, 10 December 2007&lt;/td&gt;
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		&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 13:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 13:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;====Step 3: ACK or RESET response====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;====Step 3: ACK or RESET response====&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;If computer A wants to establish the connection, it sends an ACK response with number (xB+1) back to computer B. Otherwise, it sends a RESET response to drop the connection request.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;If computer A wants to establish the connection, it sends an ACK response with number (xB+1) back to computer B. Otherwise, it sends a RESET response to drop the connection request.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==The attack==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==The attack==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:Mitnickattack.JPG|thumb|right|500px|The Mitnick attack]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:Mitnickattack.JPG|thumb|right|500px|The Mitnick attack]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>24.141.170.99</name></author>	</entry>

	<entry>
		<id>http://wiki.cas.mcmaster.ca/index.php?title=The_Mitnick_attack&amp;diff=86&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>24.141.170.99:&amp;#32;/* Who is Mitnick? */</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wiki.cas.mcmaster.ca/index.php?title=The_Mitnick_attack&amp;diff=86&amp;oldid=prev"/>
				<updated>2007-12-10T03:19:27Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Who is Mitnick?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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		&lt;tr valign='top'&gt;
		&lt;td colspan='2' style=&quot;background-color: white; color:black;&quot;&gt;← Older revision&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td colspan='2' style=&quot;background-color: white; color:black;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 03:19, 10 December 2007&lt;/td&gt;
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		&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 3:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 3:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Who is Mitnick? ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Who is Mitnick? ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:kevinmitnick.jpg|frame|right|Kevin Mitnick]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:kevinmitnick.jpg|frame|right|Kevin Mitnick]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnick Kevin Mitnick](born October 6, 1963) is known as &amp;quot;the most famous&amp;quot; hacker in United States of America. He is an expert in[[social engineering]], which helped him to obtain many classified information used for his hacking habbit. In his early age, he was on the FBI most wanted cyber criminal list. He was captured by the FBI with the aid of Tsutomu and sentenced 5 years in prisons. Now he is a security consultant in his own firm [http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/index.php Mitnick Security Consulting].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnick Kevin Mitnick](born October 6, 1963) is known as &amp;quot;the most famous&amp;quot; hacker in United States of America. He is an expert in [[social engineering]], which helped him to obtain many classified information used for his hacking habbit. In his early age, he was on the FBI most wanted cyber criminal list. He was captured by the FBI with the aid of Tsutomu and sentenced 5 years in prisons. Now he is a security consultant in his own firm [http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/index.php Mitnick Security Consulting].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Three-way handshake==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Three-way handshake==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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	<entry>
		<id>http://wiki.cas.mcmaster.ca/index.php?title=The_Mitnick_attack&amp;diff=85&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>24.141.170.99:&amp;#32;/* Who is Mitnick? */</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wiki.cas.mcmaster.ca/index.php?title=The_Mitnick_attack&amp;diff=85&amp;oldid=prev"/>
				<updated>2007-12-10T03:17:06Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Who is Mitnick?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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		&lt;td colspan='2' style=&quot;background-color: white; color:black;&quot;&gt;← Older revision&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td colspan='2' style=&quot;background-color: white; color:black;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 03:17, 10 December 2007&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 3:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Who is Mitnick? ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Who is Mitnick? ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:kevinmitnick.jpg|frame|right|Kevin Mitnick]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:kevinmitnick.jpg|frame|right|Kevin Mitnick]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnick Kevin Mitnick](born October 6, 1963) is known as &amp;quot;the most famous&amp;quot; hacker in United States of America. He is an expert [[&lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;Social &lt;/del&gt;engineering]], which helped him to obtain many classified information used for his hacking habbit. In his early age, he was on the FBI most wanted cyber criminal list. He was captured by the FBI with the aid of Tsutomu and sentenced 5 years in prisons. Now he is a security consultant in his own firm [http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/index.php Mitnick Security Consulting].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnick Kevin Mitnick](born October 6, 1963) is known as &amp;quot;the most famous&amp;quot; hacker in United States of America. He is an expert &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;in&lt;/ins&gt;[[&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;social &lt;/ins&gt;engineering]], which helped him to obtain many classified information used for his hacking habbit. In his early age, he was on the FBI most wanted cyber criminal list. He was captured by the FBI with the aid of Tsutomu and sentenced 5 years in prisons. Now he is a security consultant in his own firm [http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/index.php Mitnick Security Consulting].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Three-way handshake==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Three-way handshake==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;If there is a trusted relationship between two computers (e.g. server and client), a connection can be established by a [http://www.pccitizen.com/threewayhandshake.htm three-way handshake]. In the Mitnick attack, the three-way handshake used TCP sequence number and IP address as proof for identity and signature. Three-way handshake has three steps:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;If there is a trusted relationship between two computers (e.g. server and client), a connection can be established by a [http://www.pccitizen.com/threewayhandshake.htm three-way handshake]. In the Mitnick attack, the three-way handshake used TCP sequence number and IP address as proof for identity and signature. Three-way handshake has three steps:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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	<entry>
		<id>http://wiki.cas.mcmaster.ca/index.php?title=The_Mitnick_attack&amp;diff=84&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>24.141.170.99:&amp;#32;/* See also */</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wiki.cas.mcmaster.ca/index.php?title=The_Mitnick_attack&amp;diff=84&amp;oldid=prev"/>
				<updated>2007-12-10T03:15:59Z</updated>
		
		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;See also&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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		&lt;td colspan='2' style=&quot;background-color: white; color:black;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 03:15, 10 December 2007&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Amazon.com: [http://www.amazon.com/Network-Intrusion-Detection-Analysts-Handbook/dp/0735708681 '''Network intrusion detection, an analyst's handbook''' by ''Stephen Northcutt'']&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Amazon.com: [http://www.amazon.com/Network-Intrusion-Detection-Analysts-Handbook/dp/0735708681 '''Network intrusion detection, an analyst's handbook''' by ''Stephen Northcutt'']&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==See also==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==See also==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Information Security Topics:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Information Security Topics:&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;BR&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;- [[Piggybacking]]&amp;lt;BR&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;- [[Piggybacking]]&amp;lt;BR&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;- [[Security and Storage Mediums]]&amp;lt;BR&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;- [[Security and Storage Mediums]]&amp;lt;BR&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;- [[Identity Theft]]&amp;lt;BR&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;- [[Identity Theft]]&amp;lt;BR&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;- [[Information security awareness]]&amp;lt;BR&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;- [[Information security awareness]]&amp;lt;BR&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== External links ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== External links ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_VYWefmy34 An interview with Mitnick]&amp;lt;BR&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_VYWefmy34 An interview with Mitnick]&amp;lt;BR&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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