- 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.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Sniffers - Summary
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