Ethical Hacking: Sniffers

Learn about ethical hacking, one of the most desired stills for any IT security professional.

Introduction

• Visualizing network traffic
• What you should know
• Hacking ethically

1. Sniffing Overview

• Sniffing network traffic
• Using other sniffing tools
• Dissecting the OSI model
• Comparing passive and active attacks
• Using Wireshark
• Tapping into the data stream

2. Spoofing Attacks

• Launching a macof attack
• Exploiting Layer 2 protocols
• Spoofing a MAC address
• Defending against MAC attacks
• VLAN hopping attack
• Spoofing IRDP

3. Dissecting DHCP

• Investigating DHCP
• Depleting the DHCP pool
• Deploying a rogue DHCP server
• Defending against DHCP attacks
• Challenge: Identifying key elements in a capture
• Solution: Identifying key elements in a capture

4. Reviewing ARP

• Describing ARP
• Exploring ARP spoofing tools
• Detecting ARP spoofing
• Defending against ARP attacks

5. Attacking DNS

• Summarizing DNS
• Caching and forgery
• Poisoning DNS
• Guarding against DNS attacks
• Challenge: Investigate a DNS header
• Solution: Investigate a DNS header

6. Sniffing Tools and Techniques

• Capturing images
• Examining HTTP headers and URLs
• Scooping data with TShark
• Sniffing tools for mobile devices
• Investigating Omnipeek
• Guarding against sniffing

Conclusion

• Next steps