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Eccouncil Exam 312-38 Topic 7 Question 81 Discussion
Topic #: 7
Xenon is a leading real estate firm located in Australi
a. Recently, the company had decided a bid
amount for a prestigious construction project and was sure of being awarded the project. Unfortunately,
the company lost the tender to one of its competitors. A few days later, while performing a network
scan, the network admin identified that somebody had captured the confidential e-mails conversions
related to the tender. Upon further investigation, the admin discovered that one of the switch ports was
left open and an employee had plugged into the network using an Ethernet cable.
Which attack did the employee perform in the above situation?
In the scenario described, the employee performed aNetwork Sniffingattack. This type of attack involves capturing and analyzing packets traveling through a network. Since the admin discovered that confidential emails related to the tender were captured and that an open switch port was used to connect to the network, it indicates that the data was intercepted as it traveled across the network, which is characteristic of a sniffing attack. Network sniffing can be either passive or active; however, the scenario suggests a passive approach where the packets were monitored and captured without altering the network traffic.
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