This guide explains how to set up remote packet capture using Wireshark and the rpcapd service, covering software installation, network requirements, enabling the remote daemon, and configuring Wireshark for real‑time analysis of high‑frequency traffic on devices with limited resources.
The article introduces go‑sniffer, a Go‑based packet sniffer that captures MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB traffic, explains how to install required dependencies and the tool itself on CentOS or Ubuntu, and provides command‑line examples for auditing and analyzing database operations.
This article walks through creating a Linux packet sniffer that bypasses libpcap, explains PF_PACKET raw sockets, shows how to bind to a specific interface, enable promiscuous mode, attach a BPF filter compiled with tcpdump, and parse Ethernet and IP headers in a continuous receive loop.
This article presents a curated list of network security utilities—including anti‑malware, scanners, encryption, IDS, port scanners, exploit frameworks, monitoring, proxies, wireless, rootkit detectors, and packet sniffers—each with brief descriptions and download links for aspiring security practitioners.
This article introduces Python's Scapy library, explains what network packets are, lists common Scapy commands, demonstrates packet sniffing, crafting, sending, receiving, SYN scanning, serialization, and conversion techniques, and provides practical code examples for each operation.
