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International Journal of Innovative Research and Development, Vol 2, No 5 (2013), Pagination:
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Security is crucial to networks and applications. So with the huge explosion of public internet, ecommerce, private computers it has become necessary to secure them properly otherwise they are increasingly vulnerable to malicious attack and various threats. Network structure itself allows many security threats to occur because of many loopholes and improper maintenance. This paper discusses various network threats and proposes their preventive methods which helps in protecting individuals, organisations from intruders and ensures that the information or data travelling on network is safe and protected.
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Network Security, Spoofing, Spamming, Phishing, Flooding, Trojans, Viruses, Malwares, Honeypots, Packet sniffing, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), Media Access Control address (MAC) attacks, MAC flooding, Denial of Service (DOS) attacks, Intrusion Detec
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