• DocumentCode
    3701981
  • Title

    An investigation of backdoors implication to avoid regional security impediment

  • Author

    Osama Nasser;Shamis AlThuhli;Morshed Mohammed;Rashed AlMamari;Faizal Hajamohideen

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Information Technology, College of Applied Sciences, Sohar, Oman
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    4/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    409
  • Lastpage
    412
  • Abstract
    The remain undetected threat, backdoor is a computer based cryptosystem or an algorithm or the form of an installed program, it is a method of bypassing normal authentication, securing unauthorized remote access to a computer, hackers benefit obtaining access to plaintext and users´ sensitive information. The research on Backdoor is keep vigorous as the day passes and more new threats have been detected. The victims are varying from the student inside the campus to an employee in a corporate office exposed to the threat. This field of research must be addressed in all part of information technology areas in terms of the type of backdoors such as Crypto, Systems and Application backdoors. This paper discusses the backdoors and its types also this study attempts to investigate the threat of backdoors using open source software. It illustrates the various countries including Oman that originate backdoors which census overall 2% of backdoors.
  • Keywords
    "Cryptography","Information technology","Servers","Companies","Microcomputers"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communication Technologies (GCCT), 2015 Global Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GCCT.2015.7342695
  • Filename
    7342695