From the course: Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

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Learning objectives

Learning objectives

- Welcome to our lesson on sniffing. Viewing traffic as it flows through a network is invaluable to an attacker. For example, if you're able to capture the packets of a telnet session from the point of authentication, you can derive a username and password for that system being accessed. In this lesson, we'll be covering what network sniffing is and some common techniques to employ sniffing.

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