A survey on sniffing attacks on computer networks

Abstract

Generally Malicious users make use of different attacks at different levels to steal different level of data. Some of the sniffing attacks that can be used in different levels of networking/transmission are Media Access Control (MAC) Flooding, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Attacks, DHCP Starvation Attack, Rogue DHCP Server Attack, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Spoofing, MAC spoofing and Domain Name Server (DNS) Poisoning. In this paper, a comparative study has been done with the above mentioned sniffing attacks and the level of recovery that can be done with each sniffing attack.