*UPGRADE YOUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CYBERSECURITY TOOLS*
The most secure and anonymous tools available!
Don’t you think Privacy is a myth just like democracy?
Well looking over the tremendous development in technology, it’s hard to black out our secret information. Nowadays getting access to secret information is so easier than the past by different way of cyber-attacks. One can damage the system by minimal energy and efforts. It is because of theses causes that conception of cyber security paved its way in the world and started to grow faster than ever. With distant working becoming the unusual standard, each and every organization regardless of how big or small, need cyber security expert well versed with tools and techniques in cybersecurity.
What we honestly need in cyber security is not a firewall, but an immune system. We need to realize that no system will ever be fully secured, hence network security is a growing concern in today’s world. Therefore, it is autocratic to have an authorization and attestation system in place to protect the data and other systems from unknown cyber threats.
There are abundant open source and paid network tools accessible in the market you can use to fortify security in networking. Lets us focus on the latest and one of the best tools available that is Wireshark!
· What exactly is Wireshark?
Formerly known as Ethereal, Wireshark is open-source network software that can efficiently analyse network protocols and enhance security in real-time. Since it is a console-based password auditing and packet sniffer tool, you can use this security software to sniff the network and monitor your network traffic in real-time. Security professionals use this efficient software to capture data packets and inspect the features that particular data packets exhibit, which further helps to identify the weaknesses in network security.
Wireshark will help you capture network packets and display them at a granular level. Once these packets are broken down, you can use them for real-time or offline analysis. This tool lets you put your network traffic under a microscope, and then filter and drill down into it, zooming in on the root cause of problems, assisting with network analysis and ultimately network security.
· Lets go down the Rabbit hole!
In late 1997 Gerald Combs needed a tool for tracking down network problems and wanted to learn more about networking so he started writing Ethereal (the original name of the Wireshark project) as a way to solve both problems.
Ethereal was initially released after several pauses in development in July 1998 as version 0.2.0. Within days patches, bug reports, and words of encouragement started arriving and Ethereal was on its way to success. Not long after that Gilbert Ramirez saw its potential and contributed a low-level dissector to it.
In 2006 the project moved house and re-emerged under a new name: Wireshark. In 2008, after ten years of development, Wireshark finally arrived at version 1.0. This release was the first deemed complete, with the minimum features implemented. Its release coincided with the first Wireshark Developer and User Conference, called Shark fest.
In 2015 Wireshark 2.0 was released, which featured a new user interface.
· Time to pull the carpet and see some fascinating features!
The following are some of the many features Wireshark provides:
· Available for UNIX and Windows.
· Capture live packet data from a network interface.
· Open files containing packet data captured with tcpdump/WinDump, Wireshark, and many other packet capture programs.
· Import packets from text files containing hex dumps of packet data.
· Display packets with very detailed protocol information.
· Save packet data captured.
· Export some or all packets in a number of capture file formats.
· Filter packets on many criteria.
· Search for packets on many criteria.
· Colorize packet display based on filters.
· Create various statistics.
The tool without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.
Some intended purposes
Here are some reasons people use Wireshark:
· Network administrators use it to troubleshoot network problems
· Network security engineers use it to examine security problems
· QA engineers use it to verify network applications
· Developers use it to debug protocol implementations
· People use it to learn network protocol internals
As it is said that every stick has two sides, for all of it’s advantages, Wireshark also have some limitations.
· Here are some things Wireshark does not provide:
Wireshark isn’t an intrusion detection system. It will not warn you when someone does strange things on your network that he/she isn’t allowed to do. However, if strange things happen, Wireshark might help you figure out what is really going on.
Wireshark will not manipulate things on the network, it will only “measure” things from it. Wireshark doesn’t send packets on the network or do other active things.
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