Network Sniffing

 Network Sniffing 

Smart locks are a new type of device intended to protect your home and make it easier to enter with the click (or, more appropriately, tap) of a button. But taking a more futuristic approach to fortifying your house can have serious consequences, security researchers have found. One smart lock, not-soaptly marketed as the “smartest lock ever,” could be intercepted via network traffic between the mobile app and the lock itself. Scarier yet, this can be done through inexpensive, readily available network-sniffing devices.

What you need to know: Network sniffing, also known as packet sniffing, is the real-time capturing, monitoring and analysis of data flowing within a network. Whether it’s via hardware, software or a combination of both, bad actors use sniffing tools to eavesdrop on unencrypted data from network packets, such as credentials, emails, passwords, messages and other sensitive information.

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