Now that we are at the end of Day 5, we can review some of the topics we talked about. This chapter focused on traffic sniffing techniques and spoofing. We talked about the importance of sniffers and explored various type of sniffers such as tcpdump, Windump, and Wireshark. We then moved onto various spoofing attacks. The foundation of any spoofing attack and MiTM attack is ARP spoofing. Utilities such as arpspoof and Ettercap were discussed, as both are viable options to spoof traffic. Finally, since more and more traffic is moving to SSL, and any traffic worth grabbing is secure, we talked about two methods for harvesting information from those traffic flows. These methods include sslstrip and SSLsplit.

In the next chapter, we will explore password-based attacks. This will include discussions around rainbow tables and password lists, along with various tools to utilize for these types of attacks. We will also touch on the importance of social engineering experiments, since users...