Design of Network-based Real-time Connection Traceback System with Connection Redirection Technology

Recently the number of Internet users has very sharply increased, and the number of intrusions has also increased very much. Consequently, security products are being developed and adapted to prevent systems and networks from being hacked and intruded. Even if security products are adapted, however, hackers can still attack a system and get a special authorization because the security products cannot prevent a system and network from every instance of hacking and intrusion. Therefore, the researchers have focused on an active hacking prevention method, and they have tried to develop a traceback system that can find the real location of an attacker. At present, however, because of the characteristics of Internet - diversity, anonymity - the real-time traceback is very difficult. To over-come this problem the Network-based Real-Time Connection Traceback System (NRCTS) was proposed. But there is a security problem that the victim system can be hacked during the traceback. So, in this paper, we propose modified NRCTS with connection redirection technique. We call this traceback system as Connection Redirected Network-based Real-Time Connection Traceback System (CR-NRCTS).