Talk:Ettercap (software)

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This looks to be cut-and-paste, probably from ettercap site or docs. Looks like I'll need to rebuild the whole thing... Qbeep (talk) 20:48, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Sandharb (talk) 12:32, 1 October 2010 (UTC): I would like to make the following changes to this page. Please let me know suggestions (if any) of the concerned.

1. Change in the introduction

Ettercap is a free and open source network security tool for man-in-the-middle attack on LAN. It can be used for computer network protocol analysis and security auditing. It runs on various Unix-like operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, BSD and Solaris, and on Microsoft Windows. It is capable of intercepting traffic on a network segment, capturing passwords, and conducting active eavesdropping against a number of common protocols. It is ranked number 11 in the Top 100 Network Security Tools list released by insecure.org in 2006.

2. Adding a new section - Functionality

Functionality
Ettercap works by putting the network interface into promiscuous mode and by Arp poisoning the target machines. Thereby it can act as a 'man in the middle' and unleash various attacks on the victims. Ettercap has plugin support so that the features can be extended by adding new plugins.

3. A new external link


 * An interview with the authors

Backdoored?
claims ettercap has a backdoor: http://www.exploit-db.com/papers/15823/ 24.145.144.248 (talk) 19:00, 2 January 2011 (UTC)