CEH Certified Ethical Hacker Practice Exams, Fifth Edition, 5th Edition

CHAPTER 4

Sniffing and Evasion

This chapter includes questions from the following topics:

•   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 IDS, firewall, and honeypot evasion techniques

Overhearing a conversation, whether intentionally or via eavesdropping, is just part of our daily lives. Sometimes we sniff conversations without even meaning or trying to—it just happens. Anyone who has worked in a cube-farm office environment ...