Cocoa Packet Analyzer
Downloads Cocoa Packet Analyzer is a native Mac OS X implementation of a network protocol analyzer and packet sniffer. CPA supports the industry-standard PCAP packet capture format for reading, capturing and writing packet trace files.
[November 20, 2009, 14:07]
NetDumper
Downloads A simple network packet sniffer that dumps all packets to a file. Simple and plain without the overhead of any analyzer. Since it uses libPCAP it supports most expressions you are used from tcpdump.
[March 11, 2008, 7:00]
TracePlus Ethernet
Downloads Powerful real-time packet sniffer means no waiting to see results! Imports capture files from other packet analyzers including UNIX and Linux OS's. The the VLAN number of a particular packet is displayed in four different Views (Packet View...
[August 27, 2007, 8:00]
Hack attacks on home PCs increase
News A packet sniffer installed on any cable modem user computer in a neighbourhood may be able to capture data transmitted by any other cable modem in the same neighbourhood. Intruder attacks are defined as anything from packet sniffers, which capture...
[August 29, 2001, 17:22]
Fluke considers wireless tests
News In analysis, its main competitor is Network Associates' Sniffer, which Bell describes as more trouble to install, and "more expensive" - a typical Sniffer system costing £25,000 to £29,000, and Fluke coming in £10,000 less.
[February 11, 2002, 11:41]
Experts ask Google to boost privacy
News However, Google does not offer the ability to encrypt potentially sensitive data created in other Google apps such as Docs or Calendar by default, which means the communications could be stolen or snooped on by someone using a packet sniffer on...
[June 17, 2009, 9:41]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And what's the point in telling an operative in Omsk to take out the mayor and make it look like a CIA plot, if some spotty system manager in an ISP runs a packet sniffer and splurges the news to the world?
[May 29, 2002, 15:54]
Ethernet security leak discovered
News These, in turn, can be searched for valuable information using a packet sniffer. The creators of the standard tried to keep things as simple as possible, so they just specified that the empty spaces in a packet be filled out with nulls.
[January 27, 2003, 12:03]
Chrome bug undermines web anonymisation
News Wireshark [a packet sniffer application] clearly shows the DNS queries happening on the local network before the page is downloaded through the SOCKS proxy," the bug report stated. Google's Chrome browser has a design flaw that renders privacy...
[December 15, 2009, 15:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Big Brother is watching the packet sniffer. Monday China crisis? What China crisis? Let's not worry about American spy planes, American arms sales, American national missile defences, or American policy statements that are tasty enough at the time...
[May 4, 2001, 16:02]
New Unix worm could be the next Code Red
News If someone is using a packet sniffer, it is easy to find out a person's username and password," said Read. A new Internet worm designed to attack a common flaw in Unix systems has been confirmed dead, but security experts are warning that the self...
[September 10, 2001, 16:58]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Skype won't tell me -- indeed, the EULA says that I mustn't attach a packet sniffer to my network, presumably to stop me finding out. Tuesday 23/11/2004 Peer-to-peer file sharing software Kazaa announces that it's including peer-to-peer voice-over...
[November 26, 2004, 17:00]
Security and wireless networking review
Reviews Most WAPs provide a setting to hide the SSID if required, but this isn’t particularly effective as a security measure since SSIDs can be extracted in plain text from wireless packets using a sniffer. It’s a 32-character (maximum} 'unique' non...
[July 23, 2007, 15:06]
