If you ever need network sniffing help or expertise, Laura is one of the best in the world. Great in person. Great speaker. I highly recommend any of her books, podcasts, and tutorials. Her web site, ...

The way I understand it, Ethernet was designed so that hosts only "listen" to traffic that is intentionally aimed at them. Malicious users can set their host's connection to promiscuous mode, and ...

Sniffers are tools — sometimes referred to as network analyzers — commonly used for monitoring network traffic. The term packet sniffing refers to the technique of copying individual packets as they ...

Imagine this: you're sitting in your local coffee shop sucking down your morning caffeine fix before heading into the office. You catch up on your work e-mail, you check Facebook and you upload that ...

Wardriving started out as a search for unprotected WiFi access points before hot spots were prevalent. And so this ZigBee protocol wardriving hardware which [Travis Goodspeed] put together really ...

Google has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision by an appeals court that its collection of data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks is not exempt under federal wiretap laws. The company ...

The new strategy allows an attacker to instead lift ID information directly from the router, within minutes. Legacy WiFi just became a little less safe, according to Jens Steube, the developer of the ...

In the tradition of other great network analysis tools like Bro and Sourcefire, Corelight gives security pros deep insight into data traffic on the systems they defend. I’ve long been a huge fan of ...