Airborne Wireless Sensor Networks for Airplane Monitoring System

Table 5

Characteristics and countermeasures of attacks in various OSI layers.

Attacks	Characteristics	OSI layer affected	Countermeasures
Malware attack	Trojan horse, worms, key-loggers, and viruses	Application	Firewalls and antiviruses
SQL injection	Acquiring unauthorized access to websites	Application	Firewalls and antiviruses
TCP flood	Sending massive ping requests	Transport	Reducing packets response
UDP flood	Sending massive UDP packets	Transport	Reducing packets response
IP hijacking	Legal users IP address impersonation	Routing	Firewalls
Smurf attack	Sending massive ICMP requests	Routing	Reducing packets response
Mac spoofing	MAC addresses falsification	MAC	ARP packets
MITM attack	Communicating nodes impersonation	MAC	Virtual private networks (VPNs)
Jamming attack	Interrupting legal data transmission	Physical	Spread spectrum techniques
Denial of service	Sending abundant packets	Physical	Temper-proof packaging