  Sniffing is one of the most prominent causes for most of the attacks in the
digitized computing environment. Through various packet analyzers or sniffers
available free of cost, the network packets can be captured and analyzed. The
sensitive information of the victim like user credentials, passwords, a PIN
which is of more considerable interest to the assailants can be stolen through
sniffers. This is the primary reason for most of the variations of DDoS attacks
in the network from a variety of its catalog of attacks. An effective and
trusted framework for detecting and preventing these sniffing has greater
significance in today's computing. A counter hack method to avoid data theft is
to encrypt sensitive information. This paper provides an analysis of the most
prominent sniffing attacks. Moreover, this is one of the most important strides
to guarantee system security. Also, a Lattice structure has been derived to
prove that sniffing is the prominent activity for DoS or DDoS attacks.
