Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
Packet sniffing is the process of capturing each packet that is transmitted over the network and analyzing its content. Most of the time, packet sniffing is used to troubleshoot network problems or to gather network statistics. The software or device used for capturing packet data is called packet sniffer, packet analyzer, network sniffer or simply network analyzer.
The Packet Sniffer Sensor monitors, among other things:
• Total traffic
• Port sniffer
• Web traffic (HTTP, HTTPS)
• Mail traffic (IMAP, POP3, SMTP)
• File transfer traffic (FTP, P2P)
• Infrastructure traffic (DHCP, DNS, ICMP, SNMP)
• Remote control (RDP, SSH, VNC)
• Other UDP and TCP traffic
Third party intercepting a packet and downloading it information before it is sent onward toward its destination is called Packet Sniffer