Wireshark Basics (1)

Wireshark is the world's most popular graphical network protocol analyzer. It is used by network administrators, security researchers and hackers alike for analyzing network traffic either in an online or offline mode. Due to Wireshark's multi-platform availability (Linux / OSX / Windows / Solaris etc) it has become the tool of choice for almost anyone intending to analyze network traffic. In this 3 part video series we will look at how to use the Wireshark Network Analyzer to capture / display and filter network traffic.

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1. Wireshark Basics

2. Packet Sniffing using TcpDump

3. Raw Sockets Basics

4. Packet Sniffing Programming Basics

Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the founder of an online startup (currently in stealth mode). Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net