Chapter 3. Sniffing and Penetration Testing
When I was pursuing my Master of Engineering (M.E) degree, I used to sniff the networks in my friends' hostels with my favorite tool, Cain & Abel. My friends would usually surf e-commerce websites. The next day, when I told them that the shoes they were shopping for on websites were good, they would be amazed. They would always wonder how I got this information. Well, this is all due to sniffing the network.
In this chapter, we shall study sniffing a network, and will cover the following topics:
- The concept of a sniffer
- The types of network sniffing
- Network sniffing using Python
- Packet crafting using Python
- The ARP spoofing concept and implementation by Python
- Testing security by custom packet crafting
