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Yersinia (computing)

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Yersinia - is a network security/hacking tool for Unix-like operating systems, designed to take advantage of some weakness in different network protocols. Yersinia is considered a valuable and widely used security tool. As of 2013 Yersinia is still under development with a latest stable version number 0.7.3 available only at GitHub source code repository.

Attacks for the following network protocols are implemented:

  • Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
  • Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
  • Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP)
  • Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
  • Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
  • IEEE 802.1Q
  • IEEE 802.1X
  • Cisco Inter-Switch Link (ISL)
  • VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
  • Yersinia was rated #59 at SecTools.Org: Top 125 Network Security Tools

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  • References

    Yersinia (computing) Wikipedia


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