John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He is assigned a project to test the security of www.weare-secure.com. He is working on the Linux operating system.
He wants to sniff the we-are-secure network and intercept a conversation between two employees of the company through session hijacking. Which of the following tools will John use to accomplish the task?
To sniff the network and perform session hijacking on a Linux system, the most appropriate tool is Ettercap. Ettercap is a comprehensive suite for man-in-the-middle attacks on a LAN, which includes features for sniffing live connections and intercepting communication between network hosts. This makes it ideal for the scenario described in the question.
Ethercap Ettercap is a comprehensive suite for man-in-the-middle attacks on LAN. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly, and many other interesting tricks. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols and includes many features for network and host analysis.