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When you are entering your credit card number, talking with your lover, chatting with your business partners, can you imagine what will happen if everything you are doing is exposing to everybody? Yes, it is unbelievable but it is quite true, hackers can easily obtain your private information like crecit card number, email logs, chat [...]
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Importance of Network Monitoring Reading network traffic is essential for system administrators, network engineers, and security analysts. At some point there will be a need to read the network traffic directly instead of monitoring application level details. Examples of situations that might require monitoring network traffic are, auditing network security, debugging network configurations, and analyzing [...]
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What is Kismet Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, packet sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11n, and 802.11g traffic (devices and drivers permitting). Kismet identifies networks by passively collecting packets and detecting standard named networks, [...]
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Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. In case we want to monitor internet traffic [...]
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. Its use for retrieving inter-linked resources led to the establishment of the World Wide Web. In order to monitor http traffic, we will need a packet sniffer (or a protocol analyzer) software. Here is a detail process how we can monitor [...]
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What Can Hackers Do with a Packet Sniffer? A packet sniffer in the wrong hands is a deadly weapon. A packet sniffer is a real danger because it is a very powerful and difficult to detect tool Security breaches of all kinds are reported all the time. Everyday we hear of hackers who managed to [...]
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What is Network Protocol? A Protocol can be defined as rules governing the syntax, semantics and synchronization of communication. In computing, A Protocol is a convention or standard that controls or enables the connection, communication and data transfer between two computing endpoints. Protocols may be implemented by Hardware, Software or a Combination of two. At [...]
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A packet sniffer (also called a network analyzer) can help you make your network more secure by identifying what’s going on in it Networks are large entities, even if they don’t consist of thousands of machines. Large networks are especially vulnerable because they are a fruitful ground for attacks and hacking of all kinds. Even [...]
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In case we want to sniff all images of a webpage, here is a detailed process how we can do it with Colasoft Packet Sniffer’s “Logs” feature. I will take the CNN.com home page as an example. Step 1. Open Log Settings Log settings allows us to set up some conditions or exceptions whether or [...]
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Overview Not so hard for a freshman. Auto diagnosis. Real time capture. If it’s cheaper, I will definitely buy it! After using Colasoft Packet Sniffer, I found 3 features of this product: 1.supports the real-time capturing and monitoring 2.excellent capability of protocol analyzing (approximately 300 types) and packet decoding 3.Well, the most exciting part is [...]
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