A sniffer is a program that monitors and analyzes network traffic.
Questions tagged [sniffing]
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Are there any products/techniques for low-effort DSL sniffing?
Inspired by the "can my neighbour listen to my phonecalls" question, I'd like to ask what would be required for an attacker to snoop on an ADSL connection given physical access to the wire (so, "linesman's handset" or "Beige box" style).
Obviously,…
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Detecting unusual network activity
I have a small business network consisting of ca. 15 devices, a few switches and a two routers. Recently it occurred to me that all the security measures I have been doing are not very productive: I either block some ports (or to be more specific,…
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Can packets on one home wifi network be sniffed by a computer on a different home wifi network?
It seems that every question I've researched on this topic makes the general statement "on my home wifi network" which doesn't specifically address my question.
I'm about to start a new job working remotely at home using a laptop and phone provided…
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Analyzing pcap on the fly
I want to create a mini sniffing network. I asked in a previous question about how to capture and decrypt packets in real time.
Now I want to analyze it, and I am developing a script for it but can I do it on the fly? Like when dumpcap is running…
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Sniff packets of a remote network
Is it possible to sniff some packets from a friend network from my network?
If it's possible, how?
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Can someone obtain URL (or just domain name) by using IP destination address of a packet even when HTTPS is used
When we sniffing with, lets say ettercap, we receive all packets from victim, and with that we can see Destination IP address from particular packet. So, can we obtain the domain name from that IP address, even when https is used, when we know that…
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