Everything You Need To Know About Sniffing – Part 1
What is a sniffer in hacking? This section describes network sniffing and threats, how a sniffer works, active and passive sniffing, how an attacker hacks a network using sniffers, protocols susceptible to sniffing, sniffing within the data link layer of the OSI model, hardware protocol analyzers, SPAN ports, wiretapping, and lawful interception. Network Sniffing Packet sniffing may be a process of monitoring and capturing all data packets passing through a given network sniffer by using a software application or a hardware device, Sniffing is simple in hub-based networks, because the traffic on a segment passes through all the hosts related to that segment. However, most networks today work on switches. A switch is a complicated computer networking device. the main difference between a hub and a switch is that a hub transmits line data to every port on the machine and has no line mapping, whereas a switch looks at the Media Access Control (MAC) address...