CEH v10: 08 Sniffing
Certified Ethical Hacker learning material. Chapter 08: Sniffing.
With sniffing, you can monitor all sorts of traffic either protected or unprotected. Sniffing is the process pf scanning and monitoring of the captured data like DNS traffic, web traffic and many more by enabling the promiscuous mode on the network interface. The attacker can reveal information from it such as usernames and passwords. Anyone within the same LAN can sniff the packets.