Detection of Man In The Middle Attacks in Wi-Fi networks by IP Spoofing

Wireless networks are as much as preferred as wired networks because they can provide sufficient bandwidth for day to day applications with portability. Public Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) networks has shown a considerable amount of growth in recent years leading to the increased usage of Wi-Fi networks. But in Wi-Fi networks, it is possible that a man can be in the middle between the user and service provider, watching over the entire traffic that is shared between the user and the service provider. Monitoring this traffic as an intermediary, gives access for the attacker to steal the passwords and affects the confidentiality and integrity of the messages sent between them. We can use Virtual Private Network (VPN) but is a costly option and not affordable. An approach has been discussed in where past network data is stored to find out, whether there is possibility of an attack or not. We propose a new solution where data is generated on the fly which upon subjected to statistical significance test, detects the presence of an attack.