求将下面的话翻译成英文

Sniffers (sniffer) and the internet is almost the same long history. Sniffer is a commonly used data collected useful tool, through passive monitoring, help network managers collect network data and solve network problems exist, However, based on the Sniffer these purposes, some people for its transformation into an effective tool for network attacks, transmission network to steal information for network security caused harm to this, network technicians to strengthen the Sniffer monitoring and defense, and reduce losses to the minimum.