Network Sniffing: Using Wireshark To Find Network Vulnerabilities

Description: In this video David Hoelzer talks about Wireshark Network sniffing tool.

Wireshark is one of the most popular network sniffing tools out there. With support for most of the commonly used protocols. Wireshark has become the tool of choice for network engineers, administrators and hackers.In this video we look at how to use Wireshark tool as a sniffer in an easy way. Wireshark is the best tool for Network Monitoring and traffic capturing .



Using a network sniffer like Wireshark is pretty easy to do, but network and security engineers only use a sniffer when they're troubleshooting or investigating. Are there any proactive tests that should be done on a network using a sniffer? Yes!

In this episode we take a look at a few basics about Wireshark and then jump right into a handy process that I often use when working with businesses of any size. It's not unusual to discover that unusual network protocols have crept in over the months and years, or to find that there are potentially serious layer 2 configuration issues creating security holes.



http://auditcasts.com/screencasts/13-network-sniffing-what-why-and-how

Source :- David Hoelzer, DHAtEnclaveForensics

Tags: wireshark , hacking , sniffing ,





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