Staf of EC-Council - Ethical Hacking Student Courseware. Certidied Ethical Hacker-Exam 312-50 (EC-Council E-Business Certification Series)

Recap

• 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.