Networking Concepts

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Sniffing - Intercepting and reading traffic

MitM attack - (Man in the Middle attack) A way to get between two hosts so that traffic can be sniffed between them

Packets - Small snippets of data that establish or carry data for connections or stateless protocols

Packet Injection - Forging packets

Tools:

• Cain & Abel
• nemesis
• tcpdump
• iptables
• snort
• wireshark
• ettercap