Use the following command to run DriftNet driftnet -i eth0 Now we can try to use DriftNet to monitor all victim image traffic. In an experimental enhancement, DriftNet now picks out MPEG audio streams from network traffic and tries to play them. Fun to run on a host which sees lots of web traffic. Inspired by EtherPEG (though, not owning an Apple Macintosh, I’ve never actually seen it in operation), DriftNet is a program which listens to network traffic and picks out images from TCP streams it observes. Use DriftNet to Monitor packets and images
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This is the simple scenario, and I try to draw it in a picture. For example, SSL can authenticate one or both parties using a mutually trusted certification authority. Most cryptographic protocols include some form of endpoint authentication specifically to prevent MITM attacks. The attacker must be able to intercept all messages going between the two victims and inject new ones, which is straightforward in many circumstances (for example, an attacker within reception range of an unencrypted Wi-Fi wireless access point, can insert himself as a man-in-the-middle).Ī man-in-the-middle attack can succeed only when the attacker can impersonate each endpoint to the satisfaction of the other-it is an attack on mutual authentication (or lack thereof). The man-in-the-middle attack (often abbreviated MITM, MitM, MIM, MiM, MITMA) in cryptography and computer security is a form of active eavesdropping in which the attacker makes independent connections with the victims and relays messages between them, making them believe that they are talking directly to each other over a private connection, when in fact the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker.