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Wireshark & Ethereal Network Protocol Analyzer Toolkit 1st Edition
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Wireshark & Ethereal Network Protocol Analyzer Toolkit provides complete information and step-by-step Instructions for analyzing protocols and network traffic on Windows, Unix or Mac OS X networks. First, readers will learn about the types of sniffers available today and see the benefits of using Ethereal. Readers will then learn to install Ethereal in multiple environments including Windows, Unix and Mac OS X as well as building Ethereal from source and will also be guided through Ethereal’s graphical user interface. The following sections will teach readers to use command-line options of Ethereal as well as using Tethereal to capture live packets from the wire or to read saved capture files. This section also details how to import and export files between Ethereal and WinDump, Snort, Snoop, Microsoft Network Monitor, and EtherPeek. The book then teaches the reader to master advanced tasks such as creating sub-trees, displaying bitfields in a graphical view, tracking requests and reply packet pairs as well as exclusive coverage of MATE, Ethereal’s brand new configurable upper level analysis engine. The final section to the book teaches readers to enable Ethereal to read new Data sources, program their own protocol dissectors, and to create and customize Ethereal reports.
- Ethereal is the #2 most popular open source security tool, according to a recent study conducted by insecure.org
- Syngress' first Ethereal book has consistently been one of the best selling security books for the past 2 years
- ISBN-101597490733
- ISBN-13978-1597490733
- Edition1st
- PublisherSyngress
- Publication dateFebruary 14, 2007
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7.06 x 1.56 x 8.94 inches
- Print length576 pages
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- Publisher : Syngress; 1st edition (February 14, 2007)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 576 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1597490733
- ISBN-13 : 978-1597490733
- Item Weight : 1.71 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.06 x 1.56 x 8.94 inches
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Angela Orebaugh, Ph.D. is a technologist, educator, researcher, and author with a broad spectrum of expertise in information technology and security. She synergizes her 20 years of hands-on strategic and technical experiences within industry, academia, and government to advise clients on information technology and security strategy, management, and technologies. Dr. Orebaugh’s executive leadership experience includes proven ability to lead and grow multi-million dollar technology business in diverse organizations ranging from Internet startups to Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Orebaugh was selected as one of Information Magazine’s Security 7 in 2013 and was appointed as a Booz Allen Hamilton Fellow in 2012.
Dr. Orebaugh is a Professor and Director of Cybersecurity and IT Programs at the University of Virginia where she provides academic leadership and direction to the Cybersecurity and IT programs, its students, and alumni. She developed and currently teaches the “Securing the Internet of Things” graduate course. As a former Adjunct Professor for George Mason University, Dr. Orebaugh developed and taught the Intrusion Detection and Forensics course, a core requirement for the Masters in Computer Forensics in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). She also helped create the Masters of Science degree in Computer Forensics for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) by developing the program curriculum and SCHEV proposal. Dr. Orebaugh completed her Ph.D. at George Mason University with published papers in the areas of behavioral biometrics, attacker profiling, authorship analysis, and cyber forensics. She is currently performing research in the security of cyber physical systems and the Internet of Things.
As a Fellow and Chief Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, Dr. Orebaugh provided leadership and strategic vision for information technology and security initiatives and emerging technology areas. For over 10 years, Dr. Orebaugh provided subject matter expertise support to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in information technology and security areas including authoring technology Special Publications (800 series), the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) project, and secure eVoting.
Dr. Orebaugh is an internationally recognized author of best selling technology books including, "Wireshark and Ethereal Network Protocol Analyzer Toolkit", "Ethereal Packet Sniffing", and "Nmap in the Enterprise". She has also co-authored the "Snort Cookbook", "Intrusion Prevention and Active Response", and "How to Cheat at Configuring Open Source Security Tools". She is an invited speaker at a variety of conferences and technology events.

Jay Beale (Twitter: @jaybeale and @inguardians) has been working in Linux security since 1999, when he began creating several defensive security tools, including Bastille Linux/UNIX and the CIS Linux Scoring Tool, both of which were used widely throughout industry and government. He has taught the Linux Lockdown class at Black Hat since 2001. He has served as an invited speaker at many industry and government conferences, including Black Hat, Def Con, MISTI, SANS, RSA, ShmooCon, DerbyCon, and LinuxWorldExpo, since 1999. Jay has been a columnist for Information Security Magazine, SecurityPortal and SecurityFocus, and a contributor to nine books, including those in his Open Source Security Series and the "Stealing the Network" series. Jay is a founder and both the CTO and Chief Operating Officer of the information security consulting company InGuardians.

I am a Senior Security Analyst with InGuardians, Inc. and my hobby, profession and passion is computer network hacking, focusing on wireless technologies. I write and contribute to the open-source community, and openly and freely publish tools that I develop to help people understand the threats exposing complex systems.
When I'm not breaking wireless networks, I like to work on my house, where I usually end up breaking things of another sort.
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Chapter 1 is an intro to network analysis, specifically with packet sniffing. It's very cursory, and they could do a better job of teaching this subject, but honestly that's a whole book unto itself and years of practice. The chapter is reasonably comprehensive and accurate.
Chapter 2 introduces Wireshark and how to begin using it. This chapter is very short given what it says it will cover, but most of that is brought up in the following chapters. There's a brief bit about Wireshark security, but again it's too cursory (2 paragraphs for a program that ha sa constant stream of security issues). Also, the authors keep calling it Etehreal in places and Wireshark in others. This inconsistency doesn't instill a great amount of trust in me that everything was reviewed well.
Chapter 3 covers getting and installing Wireshark for Windows, Linux, OS X, and how to build it from source. It also covers packet capture drivers (ie on Windows). A very straightforward, direct chapter.
Using Wireshark is the next chapter, and this is where we start the meat of the book. It's about 80 pages long and covers the UI and the command line options. The screen captures are better than the previous version of the book (and they often times use just a portion of the screen), but they could still be improved for legibility and for usefulness. This chapter covers the uncommon graphing and stats sections, and also following streams.
Filters are covered in Chapter 5, and the PCAP and Wireshark filter languages are covered. These are rich languages that allow for complex selectivity, and the chapter is clear and pretty comprehensive.
A new topic is introduced in Chapter 6, specifically wireless sniffing. This is a good addition to the book, and even topics such as decoding EAP and WEP are covered. This is a good, concise overview of the topic of sniffing wireless networks.
Real world packet captures are covered in Chapter 7, which is sadly too short (it could easily be a whole book). Several representative traces are included on the CD ROM that are good to study and review in this chapter. They include Linux worms and Windows malware, and also some coverage of active response packets is given.
Just like the corresponding chapter in Ethereal Packet Sniffing, Chapter 8 covers developing plugins for Wireshark, specifically new protocol decodes. Because Wireshark has a framework to extend, it supports dozens of application and network layer protocols. You can add your favorite new protocol with ease if you follow this chapter. Who knows, you may even get it included. This is a real gem of the book.
Finally, Chapter 9 covers many of the auxiliary programs that are included with Wireshark. These programs let you manage packet traces and marge them or cut them down to size. These are useful even outside of Wireshark if you work with packet traces at all.
This book is a good update to the Ethereal Packet Sniffing book and material. Sadly, in many places the editors didn't do a good job of auditing the book, so there are some mistakes and sometimes even references to the now obsolete name of Ethereal. However, the additions and improvements over the older version make this book worthwhile for anyone who needs to learn how to fully utilize this powerful sniffer.







