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Introduction: IP Spoofing

An article on "Security Problems in the TCP/IP Protocol Suite" by S.M.Bellovin in 1989 initially explored IP Spoofing attacks . He described how Robert Morris, creator of the now infamous Internet Worm, figured out how TCP created sequence numbers and forged a TCP packet sequence.

This TCP packet included the destination address of his victim and using as IP spoofing attack Morris was able to obtain root access to his targeted system without a User ID or password.

Introduction:

IP spoofing is a technique used to gain unauthorized access to computers, whereby the attacker sends messages to a computer with a forging IP address indicating that the message is coming from a trusted host. There are a few variations on the types of attacks that using IP spoofing. Introduction: IP Spoofing - The Community's Center for Security

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