Sniffers - Summary

Summary

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  A sniffer is a piece of software that captures the traffic flowing into and out of a computer attached to a network.
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  A sniffer attack is commonly used to grab logins and passwords that are traveling around on the network.
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  Sniffing can be active or passive.
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  Popular attack methods include man in the middle attack and session hijacking
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  On switched networks, MAC flooding and ARP spoofing is carried out.