It is a tool used to quickly check computers on a network for known weaknesses.

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• It is an application that captures TCP/IP data packets, which can maliciously be used to capture passwords and other data while it is in transit either within the computer or over the network.
• It is a prepared application that takes advantage of a known weakness.
• This hacker is someone outside computer security consulting firms that are used to bug test a system prior to its launch, looking for exploits so they can be closed.