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Volume 23 | Number 1 | Year 2015 | Article Id. IJCTT-V23P133 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V23P133

The Adverse Effect of Watering Hole Attack in Distributed Systems and the Preventive Measures

Glory V. Umoh, Nnamnso P. Paul

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Glory V. Umoh, Nnamnso P. Paul, "The Adverse Effect of Watering Hole Attack in Distributed Systems and the Preventive Measures," International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT), vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 162-165, 2015. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V23P133

Abstract

This paper focuses on a simple, yet impactful crimes that occurs in the virtual world as opposed to physical attack such as war, that may lead to system crash if not notice on-time. It describes the Watering Hole technique and how it works; this technique is used in targeted attacks that aim to gather confidential information and intelligence from organisation, identifying the attack and what impact it creates. In addition, the Watering Hole Attack (WHA) is very effective, so we find preventive measures of terminating it, so that it will not invade the system.

Keywords

Hacking , cracking, threat, victim, zero-day attack.

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