Overview#

Active attacker is an attacker that attempts to violate the Integrity or Availability of resources

Active attacker typically use some (and many more) of these Attacks:

• Man-In-The-Middle
• Denial-of-Service
• ARP Poisoning
• Buffer overflow

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Attacker
• Menezes-Qu-Vanstone
• Transport Layer Security
• Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report