Sniffing
Sniffing In this blog you are going to learn what is sniffing ? types of sniffing, tools and protocols that are vulnerable to sniffing attacks . Sniffing is the process of monitoring and capturing all the packets through a given network. This work is assigned to network/system administrator to monitor network traffic. Attackers use this method to capture data packets containing sensitive information such as passwords, account information etc. Sniffers can be hardware or software. It is also called as wiretapping because you may have seen this situation where a third person bugs a telephone line to hear a conversation, it's the same method only an attacker sniffs network in this case. Types of Sniffing Now you are going to see what are the types of sniffing. Active Sniffing Passive Sniffing Active Sniffing : If an attacker tries active sniffing it will lock, monitor and also alter the data packets in some way. Active sniffin...