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Wireshark 2 Quick Start Guide
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Wireshark 2 Quick Start Guide

by Charit Mishra
June 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
164 pages
3h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Analysing brute force attacks

You must be aware of the popularity of brute force attacks. The chances of success are not very high, but also it is not impossible due to the lack of complex passwords configured in corporate machines. Brute force attack is a way to guess login passwords configured in devices using a tool that automates password guessing process.

To analyze malicious traffic of such nature, I will attempt to perform brute force over a preconfigured FTP service. FTP is used to transfer files efficiently with the assurance of integrity and confirmed delivery of the data in modern and critical network infrastructures.

For testing and our analysis purposes, I have configured one FTP server at 192.168.1.108 over a Windows 7 machine ...

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