Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Kevin Mitnick, famous former black hat hacker, demonstrates just how easy it is for a hacker to tap into your network and read your email. And he’s doing it with a fiber optic network connection, not a simple and very non-secure CAT5x or CAT6x network wire. And he doesn’t have to connect to the Internet, your network, or any outside resources to do this. He clamps onto a fiber optic “wire”, opens Wireshark, and sniffs away your most guarded secrets. Mitnick demonstrates in under five minutes how he could get near your network, set up a clandestine connection, sniff your network, grab your passwords, email, anything sent “over the wire” unencrypted, and disappear within minutes. And you’d never catch him doing it. Although it isn’t obvious from the video, the hardware item that they discuss is an optic fiber clip-on coupler. It’s not designed for the purpose that Mitnick uses it for, but it works and that’s the “beauty” of being a hacker: You use hardware and software in creative ways to get the information and the results you want. The video shows just how easy it is to eavesdrop on conversations on-the-wire, even if the wire is fiber optic […]
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