Ettercap Automates the Malicious Middleman

Posted by tuxchick on Feb 1, 2008 9:07 PM EDT
Enterprise Networking Planet; By Paul Rubens 		Mail this story
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It's possible to carry out an ARP poisoning MITM attack manually using Wireshark (Ethereal) to intercept and edit ARP requests, but actually it's very easy for anyone who can get on to your network (using Aircrack-ng to get on wirelessly, for example) to carry out such an attack using automated open source tools. The best known one of these is called Ettercap.

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