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An attacker may forge a request to log the victim into a target website using the attacker's credentials; this is known as login CSRF. Login CSRF makes various novel attacks possible; for instance, an attacker can later log into the site with their legitimate credentials and view private information like activity history that has been saved in ...
In Internet networking, a private network is a computer network that uses a private address space of IP addresses.These addresses are commonly used for local area networks (LANs) in residential, office, and enterprise environments.
Wireless security is another aspect of computer security. Organizations may be particularly vulnerable to security breaches [6] caused by rogue access points.. If an employee adds a wireless interface to an unsecured port of a system, they may create a breach in network security that would allow access to confidential materials.
It often involves pretending to be a trusted entity and creating a sense of urgency, [48] like threatening to close or seize a victim's bank or insurance account. [49] An alternative technique to impersonation-based phishing is the use of fake news articles to trick victims into clicking on a malicious link.
Because the DHCP server provides the DHCP client with server IP addresses, such as the IP address of one or more DNS servers, [8]: sec. 7 an attacker can convince a DHCP client to do its DNS lookups through its own DNS server, and can therefore provide its own answers to DNS queries from the client. [35]
Used for link-local addresses [10] between two hosts on a single link when no IP address is otherwise specified, such as would have normally been retrieved from a DHCP server 172.16.0.0/12 172.16.0.0–172.31.255.255 1 048 576: Private network Used for local communications within a private network [8] 192.0.0.0/24 192.0.0.0–192.0.0.255 256