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Learning Network Forensics

You're reading from Learning Network Forensics Identify and safeguard your network against both internal and external threats, hackers, and malware attacks

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781782174905

Length 274 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Wireshark

Concepts

Forensics

Author (1):

Samir Datt

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Becoming Network 007s FREE CHAPTER

2. Laying Hands on the Evidence

3. Capturing & Analyzing Data Packets

4. Going Wireless

5. Tracking an Intruder on the Network

6. Connecting the Dots – Event Logs

7. Proxies, Firewalls, and Routers

8. Smuggling Forbidden Protocols – Network Tunneling

9. Investigating Malware – Cyber Weapons of the Internet

10. Closing the Deal – Solving the Case

Index

Packet sniffing and analysis using NetworkMiner

NetworkMiner is a passive network sniffing or network forensic tool. It is called a passive tool as it does not send out requests—it sits silently on the network, capturing every packet in the promiscuous mode.

NetworkMiner is host-centric. This means that it will classify data based on hosts rather than packets, which is what most sniffers such as Wireshark do.

The different steps to NetworkMiner usage are as follows:

Download and install the NetworkMiner.
Then, configure it.
Capture the data in NetworkMiner.
Finally, analyze the data.

NetworkMiner is available for download at SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/networkminer/.

Though NetworkMiner is not as well known as it should be, it's host-centric approach is refreshingly different and effective. Allowing the users to classify traffic based on the IP addresses and not packets helps us to zero in on activities related to the specific computers that are under suspicion or...

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Authors (1)

Datt

Datt

Samir Datt has been dabbling with digital investigations since 1988, which was around the time he solved his first case with the help of an old PC and Lotus 123. He is the Founder CEO of Foundation Futuristic Technologies (P) Ltd, better known as ForensicsGuru.com. He is widely credited with evangelizing computer forensics in the Indian subcontinent and has personally trained thousands of law enforcement officers in the area. He has the distinction of starting the computer forensics industry in South Asia and setting up India's first computer forensic lab in the private sector. He is consulted by law enforcement agencies and private sector on various technology-related investigative issues. He has extensive experience in training thousands of investigators as well as examining a large number of digital sources of evidence in both private and government investigations.

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