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Packet Sniffing

The practice of intercepting and examining data packets as they travel across a network, used both for legitimate network analysis and malicious eavesdropping.

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Firewall IDS IPS VPN DMZ NAC VLAN Subnet ARP Spoofing DNS Spoofing MITM Attack DDoS
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