The Adverse Effect of Watering Hole Attack in Distributed Systems and the Preventive Measures
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International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT) | 
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| © 2015 by IJCTT Journal | ||
| Volume-23 Number-4 |
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| Year of Publication : 2015 | ||
| Authors : Glory V. Umoh, Nnamnso P. Paul | ||
| DOI : 10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V23P133 |
Abhishek Maity, Sayan Dasgupta, Debjit Paul "The Adverse Effect of Watering Hole Attack in Distributed Systems and the Preventive Measures". International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT) V23(4):162-165, May 2015. ISSN:2231-2803. www.ijcttjournal.org. Published by Seventh Sense Research Group.
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.
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Keywords
Hacking , cracking, threat, victim, zero-day
attack.