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Flowbased detection of ipv6specific network layer attacks. By performing network measurements and analyzing ipv6 attacks on the networklevel, we. Attacks and countermeasures in a nutshell johanna ullrich, sba research. Ipv6 was invented to overcome the latter as well as to revise other drawbacks and security vulnerabilities of its predecessor ipv4. The overall goal of this paper is to summarize and systematize the ipv6 vulnerabilities as well as the associated countermeasures in a nutshell. Ullrich j, krombholz k, hobel h, dabrowski a, weippl e. The history of computers is full of underestimation. By performing network measurements and analyzing ipv6 attacks on the. By performing network measurements and analyzing ipv6 attacks on the network level, we. Ipv6 was invented to overcome the latter as well as. By systematically characterising threats described in literature, we found six of these threats to be fundamental, i. The key takeaway from this experiment is that when either ipv6 or ipv4 is set up for autoconfiguration but no configuration servers are.

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