Wireshark for ethical hackers
Wireshark is a popular and very powerful network protocol analyzer that’s commonly used by both networking and cybersecurity professionals in the industry to identify networking issues and threats within an organization’s network. Wireshark enables professionals to capture network packets and perform analysis to gain better insights into what’s happening in the network by viewing the contents of each packet or frame.
As you may know, the Network Interface Card (NIC) of a sender device is responsible for converting data into a signal that can be transported over a certain form of media, such as electrical signals for copper wires, light signals for fiber optics, and radio frequency for wireless communication. Wireshark can capture these signal types and convert them into human-readable language, helping us to better analyze network traffic.
Wireshark helps ethical hackers to detect security vulnerabilities within network-based...