If you have been to one of my Wireshark or Wi-Fi classes then you know I often criticize Microsoft Windows for some of its – well – inexplicable approaches to usage and security. Here is yet another example. Windows stores several important pieces of information in Wi-Fi profiles to facilitate automatic connections to known networks […]
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Check out these great references as well: Our custom profiles repository for Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture Whenever your web browser connects to a web server using HTTPS, a secure connection is established, keys are exchanged, and the traffic is encrypted. We won’t spend any time in
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Microsoft has added a packet sniffing/packet capture tool in the latest Windows 10 update. We have previously discussed using the ‘netsh’ command to do packet capture in Windows (see my article here). The pktmon tool is new. What does this mean? Is it better than netsh? Does it integrate with Wireshark? Well, it means you
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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 There are several other articles that we have written on various Windows 10 WLAN/Wi-Fi commands that you can execute to perform various important wireless information gathering and management. We will
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WIndows 10 has several interesting WLAN/Wi-Fi commands you can run from the Windows 10 command or Powershell. One of them is the WLAN Report. It takes two steps to view this information. Step 1. Run Windows CMD as Administrator. Then enter the command: netsh wlan show wlanreport Here is an example output: Note that the
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Using Wireshark in Microsoft Windows reveals some quirks that naturally leave you scratching your head as to what is going on. For example, when I launch Wireshark on my Windows 10 system I see a bunch of different interfaces. Some make sense (Wi-Fi, Ethernet 2) but others….: What are all the Local Area Connections? What
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If you attend our WLAN Operations course, one of the things we discuss is Active Scanning. Your system uses your saved Wi-Fi networks to actively scan for those networks (probing). There are potential security risks in this, especially with free networks. Most students conclude they should not remember networks in this way. The burning question
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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 As many of my clients and students know, I have always been astonished at how hard it is to capture the Wi-Fi traffic in Windows. This article will explain the
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A frequent visitor here will know that we have many articles discussing the netsh command line shell/scripting tool in Windows. The tool was originally introduced in Win2K. If you aren’t a regular – just click on ‘netsh’ in the tag cloud to see them all. This article discusses how you can use the ‘netsh trace’
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Here is a simple tip for Windows users. Do you have applications that you need to start all the time, but it is a pain to locate them in the Start Menu? I have the answer. This has been around for years, but I am always surprised by how helpful this is to so many
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For those of you who run GNS3 and/or Virtual Box or VMware and would like to have a free legitimate Windows image, Microsoft Internet Explorer team has provided an answer! Did I mention it is free? Don’t believe me? Go here and look. You can download different versions of Windows with different versions of Internet
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If you routinely have to change or modify your Windows configuration, especially for things like printers and networks, you find yourself navigating the Control Panel maze of choices to get to the place where this can be done. This can become tedious and time consuming. What if you had a place where all these types
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Here is my quick list of commands you can run from the Windows Command Line: (START> RUN> CMD) ADDUSERS Add or list users to/from a CSV file ARP Address Resolution Protocol ASSOC Change file extension associations ASSOCIAT One step file association AT Schedule a command to run at a later time ATTRIB Change file attributes
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What is Netsh? Netsh is a Microsoft Windows command-line shell/scripting utility originally introduced in Windows 2000 that allows you to, either locally or remotely, display or modify the network configuration of a computer that is currently running. Netsh also provides a scripting feature that allows you to run a group of commands in batch mode
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Hi everyone! [Wow – this was a long time ago! As of 2020 I have updated a little.] One of the challenges to any computer user is keeping software up to date with the latest features, bug fixes, and security patches. Often this tedious process requires opening applications and seeing if the have an “update”
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