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Know about IT Tricks

IT tricks is a mean crafty procedure or practice…designed to deceive, delude, or defraud. Hackers use tricks to find short cuts for gaining unauthorized access to systems. They may use their access for illegal or destructive purposes, or they may simply be testing their own skills to see if they can perform a task. Given that most hackers are motivated by curiosity and have time to try endless attacks, the probability is high that eventually they do find a sophisticated method to gain access to just about any environment. However, these aren’t the types of attacks we address in this article, because most successful intrusions are accomplished through well-known and well-documented security vulnerabilities that either haven’t been patched, disabled, or otherwise dealt with. These vulnerabilities are exploited every day and shouldn’t be.


Switched Networks


No evaluation of network sniffing is complete without covering network switches. Network switches connect multiple systems to the same network segment in much the same manner as a network hub. The major difference is in the switch’s ability to forward packets on a per-port basis. In this manner, only network traffic destined for a port is forwarded to it, instead of the port seeing all network traffic. With this configuration, even if a network interface is in the promiscuous mode, it does not see the traffic destined for another port on the same system.


Many people, based on this configuration, believe that network sniffing is useless. This belief is not true for two reasons. First, a sniffer running on a system captures all non-encrypted user ID and password strings sent to and from the system to any other system on the network. Secondly, publicly disclosed address resolution protocol (ARP) attacks can be launched against the network switch itself. These attacks can force the switch to relay all packets through one port, on which the sniffer is running. Network switches are a layer of protection against sniffing, however, they are not a complete solution.