Summary

Use Wireshark to keep your network secure by defending against the most common form of infiltration attempts. Analyzing the packets with security perspective will give you a new insight into how to deal with malicious users.

Activities such as port scanning, footprinting, and various active information-gathering attempts are the basis of attacking methodologies that can be taken advantage of to bypass your security infrastructure.

Guessing passwords for a legitimate service is called a brute force attack. If the same form of attack is combined with dictionaries, which consist of millions of passwords, the chances to break in get higher. Through Wireshark, you can view such attempts made against a service in your network.

Using a legitimate looking piece of software, a malicious user can gain entry into your network. These days, the most common form through which malwares are being distributed is emails. Another attack form, such as phishing, when combined with malwares, becomes seriously...