On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:21:20 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:37:20 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > > > >> In <pan.2011.01.22.18.58...@gmail.com>, Camaleón wrote: > > >> >I agree. Wired networks are not that exposed to these attacks. > >> > >> Not entirely true. On a hubbed network, putting your network card into > >> promiscuous mode will allow you do see other's HTTP traffic and > >> "sidejack" them. Even on a switched network, there may be a way to > >> fool the switch into giving you enough data from the HTTP traffic to > >> preform a "sidejack". > > > > I know very little about enterprise networking, but are hubs still in > > actual use today? > > Last time I had to make a "fine-grained" debugging operation over my > network using wireshark I had to "restore-to-life" an old (and dusty) hub > that came with our DSL device... back in 2000 :-P > > Port monitoring is something thats useful in troubleshooting network related problems on networks using switches, thought I think your switch needs to support it. > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.01.24.19.43...@gmail.com > > -- David Wildgoose
