Saturday, June 5, 2010
Project 4-3: Hosts File Attack
In this project, i am replacing a IP address with fake IP address by editing the host fileLets open up My Computer and go to C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
Double-Click on the file "hosts" and open in notepad
We are going to replace a website "http://www.course.com"with Google IP "74.125.47.99"
In notepad we will type in "74.125.47.99 www.course.com"
as shown in the picture below
Click on "File" and then "Save"
Next go to IE and type in "http//www.course.com/"
It brings me back to http://www.google.com.sg/
Reflection for Project 4-3:
In this project, i learn that hackers could hack our PC and change our hosts file and substitute a fake IP address over the real IP address and this forces us to enter the fake website. this makes it very vulnerable for innocent users and they may be lead to the fake site and think it is real site and if they typed in their own personal credentials, the credentials will be sent to the hacker.
a hacker can direct daily used sites by users to fake sites which looks to same to load viruses in their PC and could also record their usernames and passwords.