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Covert distributed computing using Java through Web Spoofing

Jeffrey HortonContact Information and Jennifer SeberryContact Information

(1)  Centre for Computer Security Research School of Information Technology and Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong
Abstract
We use the Web Spoofing attack reported by Cohen and also the Secure Internet Programming Group at Princeton University to give a new method of achieving covert distributed computing with Java. We show how Java applets that perform a distributed computation can be inserted into vulnerable Web pages. This has the added feature that users can rejoin a computation at some later date through bookmarks made while the pages previously viewed were spoofed. Few signs of anything unusual can be observed. Users need not knowingly revisit a particular Web page to be victims.
We also propose a simple countermeasure against such a spoofing attack, which would be useful to help users detect the presence of Web Spoofing. Finally, we introduce the idea of browser users, as clients of Web-based services provided by third parties, “paying” for these services by running a distributed computation applet for a short period of time.

Contact Information Jeffrey Horton
Email: jeffh@cs.uow.edu.au

Contact Information Jennifer Seberry
Email: j.seberry@cs.uow.edu.au
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