The word “Sniffer” with a capital S refers to the trademarked name, now owned by NetScout, of one such monitoring tool. But if you’re asking what a sniffer attack is, you’re probably less concerned with legitimate applications of sniffing technology, and more with how someone might be...
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A bad-actor may have gained unauthorized access to your server and copied your data without changing anything, so you'd never know. Or your server may have been part of a DDOS attack, and you wouldn't know. Look at many of the large scale data breaches in the news -- the companies ...
While it requires specialized tools, the attack is relatively easy to carry out successfully and it can also be achieved with extremely cheap hardware. Keep in mind that while cars don't really use this mechanism anymore, some simpler devices still do (you can find an analysis of one of the...
A bad-actor may have gained unauthorized access to your server and copied your data without changing anything, so you'd never know. Or your server may have been part of a DDOS attack, and you wouldn't know. Look at many of the large scale data breaches in the news -- the ...
goes through the local Wi-Fi, even if the Web pages and other network content are not otherwise encrypting. This will prevent the sniffer-in-the-coffee-shop attack from successfully stealing your sensitive data. If your company doesn’t have a VPN to use, consider using a public VPN ...
Pirni is an application that was ported to the iPod Touch and iPhone to be used as a native network sniffer. Pirni is so useful because it gets past the iPod Touch’s and iPhone’s WiFi hardware limitation of not being able to be set into promiscuous mode (a mode that allows a netwo...
1. Malware attack Malware, short formalicious software, is an umbrella term used to refer to a hostile or intrusive program or file that's designed to exploit devices at the expense of the user and to the benefit of the attacker. There arevarious forms of malwarethat all useevasion and ob...
Try using -k N (where N=1..17) or -y to vary your attack method. Increase the fudge factor. By default it is at 2, by specifying -f N (where N>=2) will increase your chances of a crack, but take much longer. I find that doubling the previous fudge factor is a nice progress...
Israel’s Major Traffic Tunnel Hit by a Massive Cyber-Attack Legezo did manage to find the firmware of the device’s manufacturer on the Internet but it was useless to get the code because he had no idea about the internal structure of controllers installed in the device. Thus, he consulte...