How to Use Wireshark for Network Traffic Analysis in Ethical Hacking
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Summary
Network traffic analysis is an important part of ethical hacking, allowing professionals to analyse data flowing through a network.
Wireshark is a widely accessible and powerful tool used to capture and analyse digital packets.
This tutorial explains how to use Wireshark effectively, including downloading and installing the software, launching the programme, capturing network traffic, filtering packets for targeted analysis and analysing packet details.
Other tips include learning the basics of the protocols used, such as TCP/IP, HTTP and DNS, and using colour coding to easily distinguish between different protocol types or packet behaviour.
The article also includes a cheat sheet of common Wireshark filters.