Collaborate Disseminate
I am trying to write a Suricata signature for testing purposes to alert every time it is triggered with a single PCAP file containing a single packet, but this is proving to be harder than I thought.
For instance, I have the following rul… Continue reading How can I get Suricata to alert on 1 packet every time
When my ISP came to set up my fiber internet, I told the technician I didn’t want a router included within my wired network. He successfully managed setting up the ONT(Optical Network Terminal) without the router. Although, I… Continue reading Are Routers Liken to a Firewall?
There is a communication between my machine and a server (10 packets), and i’m trying to control it packet by packet. How can I stop all communication after x packets ? (1-9 in my case)
I tried to use tshark -c 2 host xxx.xx… Continue reading Stop connection with IP after X packets
A company off-site staff cannot access the web server through the Internet.
The perimeter router logs shows there was an unusually high number of packet arrivals, enough to overload the router’s capacity. The source IP addre… Continue reading System security risk, cannot access web server
Cloud computing has been a revolution for the data center. Rather than investing in expensive hardware and managing a data center directly, companies are relying on public cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to provide general-purpose and high-availability compute, storage, and networking resources in a highly flexible way. Yet as workflows have […] Continue reading Full-Metal Packet is hosting the future of cloud infrastructure
I installed a version of ettercap on my Android. It is working fine but when I am trying to read a processed pcap file from the ettercap, software like Wireshark or any other pcap reader can’t read it. It is giving a message … Continue reading What is wrong with my pcap file?
I am new to wifi, and as I was looking at .pcap files, I noticed that one connection took an absurdly large amount of time. Another thing that stood out is that the amount of packets received was so mush more than the number… Continue reading Why would the amount of packets received be greater than the amount of packets sent?
Can anyone please tell me if what threats packet crafting can offer? can it arbitrary send file over-the-internet? without the server expecting it?
When sniffing wireless packets from multiple networks, how do you tell which network a packet belongs to?
The best guess I have right now is that you need to see the handshakes and get the mac addr from the Ethernet frame…. Continue reading Identify Network of Wireless Packet
Are there any negative security effects of setting the SO_BROADCAST option in a C UDP socket? I’m writing a C program and if I just set the broadcast option to 1 then all IP addresses work as intended, but if I don’t set it t… Continue reading Security implications of setting the broadcast flag on a UDP socket