Did Wireshark capture an update of Adobe Acrobat Reader over an unencrypted connection?

My home router is an AVM FritzBox and it’s able to log all incoming and outgoing traffic in a file format readable by Wireshark. Some days ago I started capturing all traffic for about an hour to get an understanding of what kind of traffi… Continue reading Did Wireshark capture an update of Adobe Acrobat Reader over an unencrypted connection?

Can I elicit responses from "any remote host" on "all protocols" if I want to?

An nmap scan of my test computer returns a result of “5357 / tcp open wsdapi”.
After some research, this is something that can be exploited.
It is explained here that:

By default, WSDAPI will listen on TCP ports 5357 and 5358. The Windows… Continue reading Can I elicit responses from "any remote host" on "all protocols" if I want to?

Redirecting an IP address to a local IP address, something akin to the hosts file?

I’m currently (legally) reverse engineering a game written in Java, so the client I have is a jar file.
I started Wireshark and started intercepting the traffic between the server and the client.

As you can see, the game’s server has an I… Continue reading Redirecting an IP address to a local IP address, something akin to the hosts file?

Community ID support for Wireshark

By Christian Kreibich, Principal Engineer, Corelight The past few weeks have seen several developments around Community ID, our open standard for rendering network traffic flow tuples into a concise textual representation. I’d like to summarize them in… Continue reading Community ID support for Wireshark

Community ID support for Wireshark

By Christian Kreibich, Principal Engineer, Corelight The past few weeks have seen several developments around Community ID, our open standard for rendering network traffic flow tuples into a concise textual representation. I’d like to summarize them in… Continue reading Community ID support for Wireshark