[Year 12 IPM] Student Hacking

[Royce Williams]

I have had one of my students demonstrate to me a very easy to use
network sniffing tool.
It was able to read in clear text any contents of external emails
arriving at and leaving our exchange server.
It even captured and read attachments
It cannot read internal exchange traffic. (yet)
 
It will also read http traffic .. show you what is on the page being
looked and see passwords typed in.
 
has this become an issue for others yet .. are there ways of protecting
your traffic etc.
 
 
 

Royce Williams 
Manager Information Technology 
Billanook College 
197-199 Cardigan Rd 
Mooroolbark 3138 
Victoria Australia 
Tel: 61-3-9725 5388; Fax: 61-3-9725 8556 

 

 

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