Introduction to Wireshark

Wireshark is an advanced network and protocol analyser, it lets you visualize network's activity in graphical form, and assists professionals in debugging network-level issues. Wireshark enhances the ability of network and security professionals by providing detailed insight into the network traffic. However, Wireshark is also used by malicious users to sniff network traffic in order to obtain sensitive data in the form of plain text.

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