Snarfing
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Snarfing is information theft or data manipulation in wireless, local networks (→ WLAN). The word snarf probably is a portmanteau from snort and scarf. In the US-American television program Trollz there is an animated character named Snarf. The Snarf usually is a neat, small dog with a very sensitive tracking nose, but it can turn into a cureless hungry monster, which is able to overcome large obstacles for foraging.
Transferred to information technology snarfing means that wireless devices are detected and then will be attacked by using vulnerabilities.
The "Snarfer" can simulate an internet exchange point by a man-in-the-middle attack for example and gather information or data. Snarfing occurred firstly at Bluetooth devices where the term bluesnarfing is in use. Snarfing can be made difficult drastically with appropriate security measures at hard- and software.
