Cyber Interception

One way data can be intercepted is if someone uses some hijacking software and pretends to be the destination for communications across a network. Another way is for a user to use 'packet sniffing' software and hardware to monitor network traffic and intercept those packets it is interested in. People using packet sniffers are especially looking for plain text files, passwords and set-up information being set across the network, which they can steal, analyse and extract information from.