Are you being sniffed?
Packet sniffing is the hacker’s technology of choice to probe networks. In this video, we explain how you can be watched or ‘sniffed’ and, more importantly, how to protect your network against this security threat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbSJT6a0JVo
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The best point made here is that keeping a hacker from getting on your network is the most important part of protecting yourself, but it shouldn’t be the only point. It’s like making sure your home has a security system and a guard dog. If for some reason the intruder can slip or brute force their way past the first, they have to be prepared to deal with the additional measures.
Now, this video is great and really useful, especially for newbies because it explains in a nutshell all the important stuff you need to snow about sniffing. Looking forward to see more of these!
Be careful about using the out-of-the-mill anti-sniffing tool (usually these are the ones offered for free or in beta mode). Not all of them are created equal. In fact, some can even do more damage. There are also anti-sniffing tools that can make your web monitoring software crash, and worst corrupted.
Some anti-sniffing tools are too strict with their definition of what is to be monitored or not. This is where it categorically mislabels some web monitoring software as a malicious attack, when it fact it’s just a false positive.