Post Views: 2,084 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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Post Views: 2,834 RFMON stands for Radio Frequency MONitor mode. It is a special mode for wireless network interfaces that allows a device to capture all radio traffic it can receive on a wireless channel, regardless of the intended recipient. All Wi-Fi radios can go into different modes, but that does not mean you can
Post Views: 4,234 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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Post Views: 196,669 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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How to perform reconnaissance & scanning the WLAN/Wi-Fi Network
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Post Views: 4,191 Say it isn’t true! For the first time in the world (for me) I can put a Wi-Fi interface on a Windows 10 machine into Monitor mode!!!!! Monitor Mode in Windows At Last! I know, this is boring to a few of you because you have been capable of this. You are
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Post Views: 9,135 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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Post Views: 6,267 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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