How to sniff a LAN with Cain and Abel

In this blog, I will show you the steps as to how to sniff passwords of a local area network.

Firstly, you will need to go to the site www.oxide.com to download the cain and abel programe.

Secondly, install the program to your computer your computer.After installing the programe onto the computer, it should look something like this(image on the right), when you startup the programe.






The third step now is to go to the configure tab then select this option and configure your NIC to or the ip address assign to you to the connected LAN. See picture below.

The fourth step is go to the sniffer tab then go to the top left hand corner close to the cain icon and press the stop/start sniffer button. Once you have done that, click the blue button, this will enumerate the host within your subnet.

Finally, select the router and then select the host which you would like to sniff of passwords and press the sniff button.