Traffic in a city is made up of vehicles moving at any given time and network traffic is more or less the same. Network traffic is simply the data entering and leaving a computer network. It is also called data traffic, or even just traffic.
Data entering and leaving the network is broken up into small packets known as network packets, data packets, or packets. A packet consists of two things:
How do WIFI sniffers work?
The most common way to network computers is through an Ethernet network. A computer connected to a local area network (LAN) has two addresses: a MAC address and an Internet Protocol (IP) address. A MAC address uniquely identifies each node throughout a network and is stored on the NIC card itself. The Ethernet protocol uses the MAC address to transfer data to and from a system when creating data frames. the Data Link Layer of the 0SI model uses an Ethernet header with the MAC address of the target machine instead of the IP address, the Network Layer is responsible for mapping the IP network addresses to the MAC address as required by the Data Link Protocol. It initially looks up the target machine’s MAC address during a table, usually called the ARP cache. If there is no entry for the IP address, an ARP broadcast of an invite packet is broadcast to all machines on the local subnet. The machine with that particular address replies to the originating machine with its MAC address. The source machine’s ARP cache adds this MAC address to the table. The source machine, along with its communications with the target machine, then uses this MAC address.
There are two basic types of Ethernet environments, and sniffers work differently in each. the two types of ethernet environments are:
Should SMB owners care about password sniffers?
SMB owners don’t need to know what a password sniffer is, but they should hire someone who does. Protecting your PMI from Password Sniffer means you need a vCISO or a security focused Managed Service Provider (MSP) or Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) to take care of this for you. There are simple “ounce of prevention” measures you need to take as a business owner that will proactively prevent the “pound of care” reaction when something goes wrong. Hackers are out there using Password Sniffer to get into your business. Proactively prevent this by leveraging vCISO, CyberHoot, or both!