"sniffing"
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"sniffing"
How worried should I be about what I read as "network sniffing" to gather passwords that are POSTed in plain text?
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Re: "sniffing"
Lets list common situations in which sniffing can occur with minimal effort:scrotaye wrote:How worried should I be about what I read as "network sniffing" to gather passwords that are POSTed in plain text?
- Using the internet over wireless (Starbucks, Airport, Colleges, etc)
- Using the internet at work
- Using the internet from a cable modem or DSL (depending on their setup)
All three can (and often are) a shared network configuration, making sniffing trivially easy. Then there are all the configurations that with minor effort can allow an attacker to do the same, making it a really large scope.
When you tie all of that together with the *huge* number of botnets that are active today, and the number of people that use the same password across multiple websites (including their bank!!!), and its a recipe for disaster.
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