Abstract:

The advancement on communication technologies has drastically affected the realms of business, education, governments, and even on individuals’ interactions. However, these advancements suffer greatly from hacking; as a result, a number of security countermeasures have been proposed. Nonetheless, the gap between successful hacking attempts and current security countermeasures is remarkable. The presence and succession rate of hacking attempts are due to many reasons including emerging of technologies (software and hardware), complication in hacking strategies, and neglecting the behavior of hackers during the initial design of current technologies. Fortunately, sophisticated hackers develop suitable hacking strategies for nominated victims based on gathered information through pre-hacking step called scanning. Scanning provide hackers with necessary information including IP address, operating system, running services and opening ports of victims’ infrastructures. In this article, we propose active defense system that targets scanning properties and makes collecting necessary information about the protected impractical. Therefore, developing suitable hacking strategies against protected infrastructure is nearly impossible.