For my reference, here is a compendium of interesting sites I encountered today: Continue reading "Sniffing, Security, Penetration Testing" »
Wednesday, March 14. 2007
Sniffing, Security, Penetration Testing
Tracking What Web Sites Users Visit
As part of the monitoring package, we are interested in recording which web sites that users are visiting. The first step is to capture the urls. The second step is to process and report the urls. Continue reading "Tracking What Web Sites Users Visit" »
Driftnet: Watching Your Surfers
This tool puts a network interface into promiscuous mode and looks for image files. Any image files found are displayed as a continuously changing mosaic on the desktop. It has the ability to listen a tond keep mpeg and sound files as well. Continue reading "Driftnet: Watching Your Surfers" »
iftop: Display Bandwidth Usage on an Interface
iftop is an interesting command line utility for tracking traffic on an interface. tcpdump is good for looking at packet content in real time, this is good for looking at what makes up traffic bandwidth in realtime. Continue reading "iftop: Display Bandwidth Usage on an Interface" »