Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Wireshark

In this section, we're going to talk about a tool called Wireshark. Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer. It's not designed for hackers, and it's not designed for hacking and spying on other people on the network. It's designed for network administrators so that they can see what's happening in their network and make sure that everything is working properly, and that nobody is doing anything bad or suspicious on the network. The way that Wireshark works is it allows you to select an interface and then logs all the packets, or all the traffic, that flows through that interface. So, we are selecting an interface (it could be a wireless card, or it could be a wired card on our current computer), and then it'll start logging all ...