How Cyber Cafe PC’s are insecure due to Sniffers
Accessing you bank accounts or any confidential accounts like DEMAT, online banking in cyber café will be insecure as your PC may be attacked by sniffers. Sniffers are a powerful piece of software. They have the capability to place the hosting system’s network card into promiscuous mode. A network card in promiscuous mode can receive all the data it can see, not just packets addressed to it. Sniffing performed on a hub is known as passive sniffing. Ethernet switches are smarter. A switch is supposed to be smart enough to know which particular port to send traffic to and block [...]
Categories: Concept, Internet Security Tags: ARP poisoning, hub or switch hacking, man in middle attack, sniffers
