Ettercap
Suite for network sniffing and man-in-the-middle analysis on a LAN.
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About Ettercap
Ettercap intercepts traffic on a local network through techniques such as ARP poisoning, allowing live connections to be sniffed, filtered and analysed, with plugins and a filtering language. It is a classic tool for demonstrating and testing LAN security.
Strengths
- Long-established toolkit for demonstrating LAN interception attacks
- Plugin and filter system for custom analysis
Limitations
- Intercepting traffic on networks you do not control is illegal
- Development has slowed considerably
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the GPL.
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Developer
- The Ettercap project
- Platforms
- macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Suite for network sniffing and man-in-the-middle analysis on a LAN
- Categories
- Network tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus Resource Hub (Networking & Diagnostics); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 2 sources on file.