TY - GEN
T1 - Security Analyses for Enterprise Instant Messaging (EIM) Systems
AU - Park, Joon S.
AU - Sierra, Tito
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2005, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Consumer instant messaging (CIM) services (aka public IM) such as AOL Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and MSN Messenger have achieved critical mass appeal and usage as a convenient and informal method of communication supporting realtime messaging and presence awareness.1,2 Unfortunately, these services are highly vulnerable from a security standpoint. Some of these security problems include threats from viruses and worms, Trojan horses, identity theft, impersonation, eavesdropping, data loss, and denial-of-service attacks.
AB - Consumer instant messaging (CIM) services (aka public IM) such as AOL Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and MSN Messenger have achieved critical mass appeal and usage as a convenient and informal method of communication supporting realtime messaging and presence awareness.1,2 Unfortunately, these services are highly vulnerable from a security standpoint. Some of these security problems include threats from viruses and worms, Trojan horses, identity theft, impersonation, eavesdropping, data loss, and denial-of-service attacks.
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U2 - 10.1201/1079/45097.32.10.20050401/87264.2
DO - 10.1201/1079/45097.32.10.20050401/87264.2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84901540171
SN - 0736-6981
VL - 32
SP - 8
EP - 24
JO - EDPACS
JF - EDPACS
ER -