Re: analysing captured packets

["Don Parker" <dparker () bridonsecurity com>]

Hi Robin,

I would suggest you navigate to the articles section of my website. There 
are several articles
there that I have written for Securityfocus, WindowSecurity amongst other 
sites that covers
what you are looking for.

Cheers,

Don

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Wood" <dninja () gmail com>
To: <pen-test () securityfocus com>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 5:01 PM
Subject: analysing captured packets


> Hi
> Can anyone give any pointers to good tutorials on how to go about
> analysing network traffic captured during a pen-test.
>
> I'm currently using ethereal but I'm not necessarily looking for an
> ethereal tutorial more a howto on what to look for in capture files.
> Things like good protocols to spot (e.g. ftp logs in in plaintext so
> you can grab login details), how to recognise what is going on by
> watching the high level handshakes (e.g. a http get is usually
> followed by a response containing html), things like that.
>
> Thanks
>
> Robin
>
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