Ethernet networks can run remarkably well for long periods of time, lulling IT admins into a false sense of security. Unfortunately, disaster can strike at anytime, and to the under-equipped, network ...

The point of enterprise threat hunting is to give organizations a chance to find potential attacks and take corrective action before the attacks can cause damage and become a security crisis. But ...

Wireshark is a must-have (and free) network protocol analyzer for any security professional or systems administrator. It's like Jaws, only for packets. Wireshark is the world’s leading network traffic ...

Control what the sniffer shows you to avoid information overload Last time we took a look at how to perform a quick capture of some sample network traffic using Wireshark. The wealth of information ...

“Promiscuous mode” (you’ve gotta love that nomenclature) is a network interface mode in which the NIC reports every packet that it sees. If you’re using the Wireshark packet sniffer and have it set to ...

In a previous article, I wrote about/confessed what a mess my home/home lab networking was and discussed various tools I used to discover what devices were connected to my home network and where they ...

Discover the key types of network traffic and their role in optimizing performance plus real-world examples to see how they impact data flow. Identifying network traffic types is vital because it ...