Monday, March 8, 2010

Sniffers - Summary


Summary


  • A sniffer is a piece of software that captures the traffic flowing into and out of a computer attached to a network.

  • A sniffer attack is commonly used to grab logins and passwords that are traveling around on the network.

  • Sniffing can be active or passive.

  • Popular attack methods include man in the middle attack and session hijacking

  • On switched networks, MAC flooding and ARP spoofing is carried out.

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