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A Study of Distributed Network Sniffing and Attacks, Otherwise Known as “Echelon”
Overview The recent developments in network sniffing and strong encryption allow adept programmers to implement remote sniffers that are able communicate to logging daemons on outside servers. Most of these sniffers are detectable, but a few use strong encryption, secure protocols, and/or promiscuous mode packet filtering which make them very hard to detect. Some of these sniffers use advanced techniques to filter through your Internet traffic in search of passwords, or anything else the programmer desires. Such “echelon” sniffers are a real threat to user who does not use encryption to secure transfers of information of the Internet. Since packet sniffing is, in essence, spying, many states have laws against sniffing; but these laws do not seem to stop the few who are sniffing today.
| Publisher | Mixter Security | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | January 2000 | Downloads | 19 |
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