%0 Journal Article
%J Internation Journal of Information Security and Privacy
%D 9998
%T Cloak and Dagger: Man-In-The-Middle and Other Insidious Attacks
%A Thurimella, Ramakrishna
%A Mitchell, William
%K Man-in-the-middle (MITM) Attack, ARP spoong, rootkits, botnets, Mebroot, Torpig.
%X One of the most devastating forms of attack on a computer is when the victim  doesn't even know an attack occurred. After some background material, various  forms of man in the middle (MITM) attacks, including ARP spoofing, fake SSL  certificates, and bypassing SSL are explored. Next, rootkits and botnets, two key  pieces of crimeware, are introduced and analyzed. Finally, general strategies to  protect against such attacks are suggested.