N10-005 · Question #537
Which of the following defines when Pete, an attacker, attempts to monitor wireless traffic in order to perform malicious activities?
The correct answer is D. Packet sniffing. Packet sniffing (also called network sniffing or eavesdropping) is the practice of capturing and inspecting data packets as they travel across a network. On wireless networks, an attacker can use tools like Wireshark or tcpdump to passively monitor traffic and extract…
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Which of the following defines when Pete, an attacker, attempts to monitor wireless traffic in order to perform malicious activities?
Options
- AXSS
- BSQL injection
- CDirectory traversal
- DPacket sniffing
How the community answered
(39 responses)- A3% (1)
- B3% (1)
- C5% (2)
- D90% (35)
Explanation
Packet sniffing (also called network sniffing or eavesdropping) is the practice of capturing and inspecting data packets as they travel across a network. On wireless networks, an attacker can use tools like Wireshark or tcpdump to passively monitor traffic and extract credentials, session tokens, or sensitive data. XSS and SQL injection are web application attacks, and directory traversal exploits file path vulnerabilities - none of these involve monitoring wireless network traffic.
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