{"id":5157,"date":"2019-09-24T21:15:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T19:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2019-09-24T21:15:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T19:15:51","slug":"zitaftp-server-and-why-you-should-use-ftps-instead-of-plain-ftp-by-kea-sigma-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/2019\/09\/24\/zitaftp-server-and-why-you-should-use-ftps-instead-of-plain-ftp-by-kea-sigma-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"ZitaFTP Server and Why You Should Use FTPS instead of Plain FTP By Kea Sigma Delta\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/keasigmadelta.com\/blog\/sniffingstealing-ftp-passwords-or-why-you-should-use-ftps-instead-of-plain-ftp\/\">Sniffing\/Stealing FTP Passwords; Or, Why You Should Use FTPS instead of Plain FTP \u00bb Kea Sigma Delta<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Password Sniffing with Wireshark (Laura Chappell)\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gxfkWLyvfkg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Plain FTP is insecure, and it&#8217;s pretty easy to sniff your username and password. Anyone who manages to connect to your network can capture network traffic, sniff out your FTP password, and then access\/steal your files. Tools to do so are readily available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bottom line is: do NOT use plain FTP for file transfer<\/strong>\u00a0if you value your data. Or, stick to plain FTP and risk being hacked. It&#8217;s up to you.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I value security. That&#8217;s why I wrote\u00a0<a title=\"ZitaFTP Server\" href=\"https:\/\/keasigmadelta.com\/store\/product\/zitaftp-server\/\">ZitaFTP Server<\/a>. It&#8217;s a secure FTP server (i.e., an FTP<strong><em>S<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0server). The password sniffing techniques shown above only work with plain FTP (and HTTP), and fail the moment secure connections are used. I highly recommend you stop using insecure plain FTP, and use FTPS instead. Yes, even within your own private network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Sniffing\/Stealing FTP Passwords; Or, Why You Should Use FTPS instead of Plain FTP \u00bb Kea Sigma Delta Plain FTP is insecure, and it&#8217;s pretty easy to sniff your username and password. Anyone who manages to connect to your network can capture network traffic, sniff out your FTP password, and then access\/steal your files. Tools  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[12,176,80,172],"class_list":["post-5157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amiga","category-security","tag-amiga","tag-ftp","tag-x5000","tag-zitaftp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5158,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions\/5158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}