How To Sniff Passwords on Wireless and Wired Networks

Sniffing passwords over a network is actually a lot easier than you would think. I’m going to show you step by step how to sniff passwords using the Windows password recovery tool Cain & Abel. Following this tutorial you’ll be able to sniff for user names and their corresponding passwords in plain-text on both wireless and wired networks. Cain & Abel sniffs passwords by implementing something called ARP (ARP Poison Routing), also known as “ARP Spoofing”.

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