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Re: Cain & Able man in the middle attack

Subject: Re: Cain & Able man in the middle attack
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:25:16 -0500
On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 13:48 +0000, James Bensley wrote:
I too have performed MITM attacks on my network with Cain & Able. Also
having grabbed a few HTTP and FTP passwords seeing that it was
successful I now need to secure my self against these attacks but how
can I do this? Would static MAC mappings in my hosts files do the
trick?

Depends on what you are trying to protect against. There are five
different techniques (that I'm aware of) for sniffing in a switched
network. Each requires a different method of protection.

I've posted a video here:
http://www.chrisbrenton.org/sans/switch-sniffing-final.wmv

which should help.

HTH,
Chris
-- 
cbrenton@chrisbrenton.org

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djohn permits John The Ripper to crack passwords with multiple systems
sharing the load. 

Visit http://www.sans.org/info/16981 to find out how you can learn more.




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