Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Wireshark filters

In this section, we'll see how to use more Wireshark filters and capture a username and a password, and we'll also see how to see the cookies of a person if they're already logged into a service and they haven't entered their username and password. So, we are going to start a new capture. We will just go to Hotmail, and we are going to log in with a username, which is [e-mail], and then we'll enter the password, which is going to be a random password that's going to be captured. So, we're going to enter 123456, and hit Enter. When we go to the Wireshark tool, we will see it has managed to capture the traffic, as we can see in the following screenshot. In the traffic we are going to look for HTTP, and we're going ...