I will hide part of the website name (just for the fact that they are nice people and I respect their privacy.). You could be doing to to your roommate, Work Network or even School, College, University network assuming the network allows broadcast traffic and your LAN card can be set to promiscuous mode.

Well, to do it over Internet, you need to be able to sit on a Gateway or central HUB (BGP routers would do – if you go access and the traffic is routed via that).īut to do it from a LAN is easy and at the same time makes you wonder, how insecure HTTP really is. That bring us to this website password hacking guide that works on any site that is using HTTP protocol for authentication. when a website allows you to authenticate using HTTP (PlainText), it is very simple to capture that traffic and later analyze that from any machine over LAN (and even Internet).

How else you’re going to authenticate yourself to the website? But, (yes, there’s a small BUT here). Did you knew every time you fill in your username and password on a website and press ENTER, you are sending your password.

Wireshark packet sniffer password