Programs That Perform Hijacking

There are several programs available that perform hijacking. We will cover four of them in this section:

  • Juggernaut

  • Hunt

  • TTY Watcher

  • IP Watcher

Juggernaut

Juggernaut is a network sniffer that can also be used to hijack TCP sessions. It runs on Linux operating systems in a terminal window. It was one of the first session hijacking tools and is easy to install and run.

Juggernaut can be set to watch for all network traffic or it can be given a keyword or token to look for. For example, a typical token might be the keyword login. Whenever Juggernaut sees this keyword, it captures the session, which means an attacker can capture a user’s password as he is authenticating to a machine. Or from a defensive standpoint, ...

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