Login spoofings are techniques used to steal a user's password.[1][2] The user is presented with an ordinary looking login prompt for username and password, which is actually a malicious program (usually called a Trojan horse) under the control of the attacker. When the username and password are entered, this information is logged or in some way passed along to the attacker, breaching security.
To prevent this, some operating systems require a special key combination (called a secure attention key) to be entered before a login screen is presented, for example Control-Alt-Delete. Users should be instructed to report login prompts that appear without having pressed this secure attention sequence. Only the kernel, which is the part of the operating system that interacts directly with the hardware, can detect whether the secure attention key has been pressed, so it cannot be intercepted by third party programs (unless the kernel itself has been compromised).
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programs (unless the kernel itself has been compromised). While similar to loginspoofing, phishing usually involves a scam in which victims respond to unsolicited...
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detected, the kernel starts the trusted login processing. The secure attention key is designed to make loginspoofing impossible, as the kernel will suspend...
vulnerable to spoofing attacks when extra precautions are not taken by applications to verify the identity of the sending or receiving host. IP spoofing and ARP...
Windows was loginspoofing, which was based on programs that simulated operating system's login prompt. When users try to log in, the fake login program can...
attempt to trick individuals into giving away sensitive information or login credentials. Most attacks are "bulk attacks" that are not targeted and are...
DNS spoofing, also referred to as DNS cache poisoning, is a form of computer security hacking in which corrupt Domain Name System data is introduced into...
Clean Access Agent; on all other operating systems, login is complete. To combat attempts to spoof the OS in use on the client, newer versions of the Server...
them. The MAC address of attached clients can also be used to bypass the login process for specified devices. WISPr refers to this web browser-based authentication...
applications to simulate keystrokes or mouse clicks, thus tricking or spoofing the security feature into granting malicious applications higher privileges...
stealing (guessing the next open port and usurping a legitimate connection) Spoofing attack Username enumeration DoS or DDoS FTP does not encrypt its traffic;...
anonymously. However after approximately 2 months of usage all of a sudden on login Yandex says that your account seems to be hacked (which is not true), and...
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than a normal traditional password, although they have been subject to spoofing. A fingerprint recognition system is more tightly linked to a specific...
adversary who intercepts the data and re-transmits it, possibly as part of a spoofing attack by IP packet substitution. This is one of the lower-tier versions...
and phishing methods typically use spoofing to mislead the recipient about the true message origin. Email spoofing may be done as a prank, or as part...
to convince banks to buy a new set of security services". Phishing DNS spoofing IT risk Mutual authentication Trusteer The word "pharming" is pronounced...
unauthorized to obtain. Spoofing is closely related to phishing. There are several types of spoofing, including: Email spoofing, is where an attacker forges...
below. HSTS can also help to prevent having one's cookie-based website login credentials stolen by widely available tools such as Firesheep. Because...
user-agent) or their anonymity thereof (VPN or proxy masking, user-agent spoofing), how the server should handle data (as in Do-Not-Track), the age (the...
session to bypass the login completely. Consider, for example, that Mallory may create a user A1ice on www.example.com and login that user to capture a...
certain privileges and protection. They usually implement some sort of login system so that only people on the access control list can obtain these services...
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