Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

DNS spoofing

In this section, we're going to learn what DNS spoofing is and how to perform it. DNS is basically a server that converts domain names, such as www.google.com, to the IP address of the device where the Google website is stored. Since we're the MITM, we can have a DNS server running on our computer and resolve DNS requests the way we want. For example, whenever a person requests Google, we can actually take them to another website, because we're in the middle. So, when someone requests it, we'll actually give them an IP that we want and then they'll see a completely different website than what they're expecting. So, we can have a fake website running on our own web server and get requests, for example, from live.com to that website. ...