Sniffing and Dsniff
Dsniff is a suite of network packet sniffing programs created by Dug Song for use in network penetration testing. Dsniff is capable of capturing and decoding authentication information for various protocols. When Dsniff is used in conjunction with known forms of ARP and/or DNS spoofing techniques it becomes a powerful exploit that can be used to gain password and authentication information from both normal and switch-based networks.
Exploit Details
Name: Dsniff.
Current version: Dsniff-2.2.
Location: http://www.monkey.org/∼dugsong/dsniff.
Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux (most distr.), Windows 95/98, WinNT, Windows 2000.
Variants: There are many sniffer tools both commercial and freely available on the Internet that can be ...
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