NETWORK SNIFFER

Network Sniffer : Monitors data flowing over computer network links in real time. Used to analyze network traffic, bandwidth utilization, so that underlying troubles in the network can be identified.

Wireshark : Network or protocol analyzer(sniffer)
• Examine security problems
• Debug protocol implementations
• Network protocols
• Solve network problems
• And ethical hacking
Wireshark usage:
• Type wireshark in termial.
• Capture => Options => Select Network Interface
• Give specific input like http.method to get a more specific result
• Then right click on the line, then follow the stream(TCP..)

*if HTTPwebsite, a person can sniff in and steal ur credential. Hence, HTTPS is used widely