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Wireshark Essentials

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Wireshark Essentials

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Wireshark Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Packet Analysis for Security Tasks

With the increasing threat of hackers, identity thieves, and corporate data theft, you need to be able to analyze the security of your network at the packet level.

The topics that will be covered in this chapter include:

  • Security analysis methodology

  • Scans and sweeps

  • OS fingerprinting

  • Malformed packets

  • Phone home traffic

  • Password cracking traffic

  • Unusual traffic