Introduce a sniffer program to analyze your network and gain infor-
mation that can eventually be used to crash or corrupt your systems
and network
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Abnormally terminate your data applications or operating systems
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Disable other security controls to enable future attacks
Solution
The best way to prevent MIM and application layer attacks is to use a secure
gateway.
TCP Replay Attack
A replay attack is when a hacker uses a sniffer to grab packets off the wire.
After the packets are captured,the hacker can extract information from the
packets such as authentication information and passwords.Once the informa-
tion is extracted,the captured data can be placed ...
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