Re: AS/400 on alt.hacker

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds surpassingly like a trojan to me.

A packet sniffer is passive, isn't it?  It just listens for all packets and then
it translates them.  I don't think it has to do anything on the network to do
this, so I think it would be undetectable.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Chuck Lewis wrote:

> OK Mr. Tricky Guy :-) just kidding !
>
> What about Antisniff at  http://www.l0pht.com/ which says it can "detect
> intruders who have installed "packet sniffers" on a network and are monitoring
> network traffic" ???
>
> Chuck
>
> Ed Davidson wrote:
>
> > You forget, these are computers.  We can tell them to do something and leave
> > them for days/months/years at a time to accomplish the task.
> >
> > You can have packet capture software capture what you specify.  Do I want a
> > password for JoeBlow?  Tell the software to only capture packets with
> > JoeBlow in them, and then capture all packets from/to JowBlows computer.
> > Save the data to disk.  When I come back to my computer, do a find over the
> > packets for the word JoeBlow.  You can kinda tell if the packet is a signon
> > packet.   If it is, the password is in the same packet just under the signon
> > code.
> >
> > Specify just to capture packets going to a specific IP address, at port 20,
> > 21, 25, and 110.  Passwords are sent in the clear on these ports.
> >
> > The question isn't if you will be hacked, the question is will the hacker
> > get in?   My site gets about 44k hits a week, about 1000 unique visitors.
> > Very small by internet standards.  About every other day there is someone
> > trying to do something to my internet server that they shouldn't.
> >
> > This information is available all over the internet.  Anyone looking for a
> > thrill can find it and cause damage to someone.
> >
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