ICT Illusions

Abstract

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<p>Cyber attacks and cyber intelligence are growing concerns in today’s computer networks. The goal of our research project was to address this threat and study generating deceptive fake services in a new way: by recording the ordinary interaction between a client and a server and then deceiving the adversary by playing back an altered, deceptive reply. We demonstrated the feasibility of such fake service generator tool by creating a proof-of-concept implementation that can create fake services for web environment. The objective was to make the tool as protocol-independent as possible while still giving convincing replies to the adversary. Our results indicate that although fake service creation is a challenging topic, can still achieve very satisfactory results with our proof-of-concept implementation. We therefore believe creating deceptive services is a promising proactive method to lead the adversary astray as he or she is attempting to get access to sensitive data.</p>

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