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How to Set a WLAN Frequency or Channel in Linux for Wireshark Packet Capture

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Post Views: 605 Learning how to manually control Wi-Fi channels in Linux is a foundational skill for wireless troubleshooting and packet analysis. Proper channel selection is critical because Wi-Fi troubleshooting is highly dependent on capturing the correct RF environment at the correct moment in time. When combined with Wireshark, Linux monitor mode provides one of […]

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Is Wireshark a Red Team or Blue Team Tool?

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Post Views: 2,249 Great question. In one sentence it is a purple tool, meaning both! Wireshark itself is a passive tool, it is non-intrusive — it doesn’t create attacks — but it’s a force multiplier for both Red and Blue Teams depending on who controls the capture point and how the data is used. Let

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Capturing WLAN Wi-Fi Packets on Android

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Post Views: 1,966 Before anything, I want to thank my user @LeoRegem on Discord for providing the information below. Thank you! Join us there is you want to comment. Here are the steps for capturing WLAN Wi-Fi packets on Android (basically getting into monitor mode and selecting channels, etc): Once you have this set, you

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WlanHelper: How to Use It in Windows

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Post Views: 4,678 WlanHelper.exe is a command-line tool from the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) and the folks at nmap/npcap that is used to manipulate advanced Wi-Fi driver settings, especially for testing and development. It allows you to control wireless network adapter settings such as: Do You Already Have WlanHelper? It’s possible if you have installed

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A List of USB Wi-Fi Adapters that support Monitor Mode

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Post Views: 204,714 So many folks use Windows and they want to capture Wi-Fi traffic in Monitor Mode (aka RFMON) using their onboard Wi-Fi adapter, and, for those of us who have tried, we all know how problematic that is. The answer as discussed in my post here is to use an external adapter. You

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3 Ways to put your Wi-Fi Interface in Monitor Mode in Linux

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Post Views: 9,648 Check out these great references as well:  Our Wireless custom profile for Wireshark  Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture  Our other Wi-Fi related articles If you are like me, you count on the Internet to help with how to’s especially when using Linux.  That said, sometimes the information can be contradicting

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Getting a Virtual Machine to Access Wi-Fi Monitor Mode

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Post Views: 6,712 Check out these great references as well:  Our Wireless custom profile for Wireshark  Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture  Our other Wi-Fi related articles In our article on putting your WLAN Wi-Fi interface into Monitor Mode so you can sniff Wi-Fi packets and troubleshoot WLAN’s, we said that if you are

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