Mastering Wireshark

Summary

Domain name system/Service is a protocol used to resolve website names to an IP address. Using this domain name service, your machine can communicate on an IP-based network. Using zone transfer (if enabled), unauthenticated malicious users can ask for zone data form name servers, which is considered highly malicious and dangerous.

File transfer protocol has been used to transfer files from one machine to another since the Internet came into existence and is still being used in today's modern networks. The most unsecure part about FTP is that the data is passed in plain text and can be easily captured using protocol analyzers, unless you are using some encrypted form of the FTP client-server infrastructure.

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