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Sniffing attack in context of network security, corresponds to theft or interception of data by capturing the network traffic using a packet sniffer (an application aimed at capturing network packets). When data is transmitted across networks, if the data packets are not encrypted, the data within the network packet can be read using a sniffer. [1]
A Man-in-the-middle attack is an active eavesdropping method that intrudes on the network system. [7] It can retrieve and alter the information sent between two parties without anyone noticing. [ 7 ] The attacker hijacks the communication systems and gains control over the transport of data, but cannot insert voice messages that sound or act ...
[2] [3] This paper caused some consternation in the security community, which had previously believed that such monitoring was a highly sophisticated attack available only to governments; van Eck successfully eavesdropped on a real system, at a range of hundreds of metres, using just $15 worth of equipment plus a television set.
An example of a snarf is the Evil twin attack, using a simple shell script running software like AirSnarf [2] to create a wireless hotspot complete with a captive portal. Wireless clients that associate to a snarf access point will receive an IP, DNS, and gateway and appear completely normal.
The threat model of history sniffing relies on the adversary being able to direct the victim to a malicious website entirely or partially under the adversary's control. The adversary can accomplish this by compromising a previously good web page, by phishing the user to a web page allowing the adversary to load arbitrary code, or by using a malicious advertisement on an otherwise safe web page.
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