An Alternative Approach of Mitigating ARP Based Man-in-the-Middle Attack Using Client Site Bash Script

Abstract

Now a day's internet is being used for every purpose of our daily lives. Thus, in modern era network security is the most important issue. There are various types of tools and technique to penetrate the physical and wireless network and those tools and technique are improving in a rapid way as each day passes by. Compare to earlier time penetrating a network and hijack the information of someone else are very common now. Among those various type of attacks Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack is one of the most common attacks to penetrate and gather someone else information. In this paper the authors proposed a prevention technique for MITM attacks using Linux bash script system in the client end.