CEH Certified Ethical Hacker All-in-One Exam Guide, Fifth Edition, 5th Edition

CHAPTER 4

Sniffing and Evasion

In this chapter you will

•  Describe sniffing concepts, including active and passive sniffing and protocols susceptible to sniffing

•  Describe ethical hacking techniques for Layer 2 traffic

•  Describe sniffing tools and understand their output

•  Describe sniffing countermeasures

•  Learn about intrusion detection system (IDS), firewall, and honeypot types, use, and placement

•  Describe signature analysis within Snort

•  Describe IDS, firewall, and honeypot evasion techniques

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