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Is ettercap a sniffing tool?
Ettercap can sniff network traffic, capture passwords, etc. I will show you some features of this tool. Ettercap can work with these four models: IP-based: Filtered packets by IP address.
What is DNS spoofing explain?
Domain Name Server (DNS) spoofing (a.k.a. DNS cache poisoning) is an attack in which altered DNS records are used to redirect online traffic to a fraudulent website that resembles its intended destination.
What is Macof?
Macof is a tool used to flood the switch on a local network with MAC addresses.
What is Dsniff package?
www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/ dSniff is a set of password sniffing and network traffic analysis tools written by security researcher and startup founder Dug Song to parse different application protocols and extract relevant information.
What does it mean when Ettercap is in bridged mode?
Ettercap can either sniff in Bridged mode or Unified mode. These names refer to the configuration of the network devices on the attacking computer. Bridged mode means the attacker has multiple networking devices, and is sniffing as traffic crosses a bridge from one device to another.
What can ettercap be used for on a computer?
You can use this tool for network analysis and security auditing and it can be run on various operation systems, like Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Windows. Ettercap can sniff network traffic, capture passwords, etc. I will show you some features of this tool. Ettercap can work with these four models:
What’s the purpose of ARP spoofing in ettercap?
The goal of ARP spoofing is to hijack a system and an attacker wants to join his MAC address with the IP address of another host. The result is that any traffic meant for that IP address will be sent to the attacker. Now that you are familiar with ARP Spoofing, I will show you how we can implement it via Ettercap.
How to check your ettercap login credentials?
First, before digging through the Wireshark capture file, double check to see if Ettercap was able to detect the login credentials. If so, you should see the username and password that you used to log in to the service in the clear in Ettercap’s information box. Now let’s see how ti find the login credentials with Wireshark.