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 ...
Mixed VLAN tags and BPF syntax

Mixed VLAN tags and BPF syntax

By Richard Bejtlich, Principal Security Strategist, Corelight This post contains a warning and a solution for anyone using BPF syntax when filtering traffic for network security monitoring.  Introduction I have been writing ...
What is TCP/IP?

Thinking of a Cybersecurity Career? Read This

Thousand of people graduate from colleges and universities each year with cybersecurity or computer science degrees only to find employers are less than thrilled about their hands-on, foundational skills. Here's a look ...
Laptop, Raspberry Pi, PolarProxy, Internet ASCII

Discovered Artifacts in Decrypted HTTPS

We released a PCAP file earlier this year, which was recorded as part of a live TLS decryption demo at the CS3Sthlm conference. The demo setup used PolarProxy running on a Raspberry ...
RawCap

RawCap Redux

A new version of RawCap has been released today. This portable little sniffer now supports writing PCAP data to stdout and named pipes as an alternative to saving the captured packets to ...
Erik presenting PolarProxy at CS3Sthlm, photo credit: CS3Sthlm

Sharing a PCAP with Decrypted HTTPS

Modern malware and botnet C2 protocols use TLS encryption in order to blend in with 'normal' web traffic, sometimes even using legitimate services like Twitter or Instagram. I did a live demo ...
EH-Net - Chappell - Tshark

Tshark: 7 Tips on Wireshark’s Command-Line Packet Capture Tool

If your current capture process can’t keep up with the traffic and drops packets – you need a new capture process. No debates here. Analyzing a trace file in which you don’t ...
NSA TLSI advisory header

The NSA HSTS Security Feature Mystery

I recently stumbled across an NSA Cyber Advisory titled Managing Risk from Transport Layer Security Inspection (U/OO/212028-19) after first learning about it through Jonas Lejon's blog post NSA varnar för TLS-inspektion (Swedish) ...
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B running PolarProxy

Raspberry PI WiFi Access Point with TLS Inspection

This is a how-to guide for setting up a Raspberry Pi as a WiFi Access Point, which acts as a transparent TLS proxy and saves the decrypted traffic in PCAP files. Image: ...

Video – Wireshark for Hackers

Get a Packet Level Foundation in Incident Response! Video and Slide Deck from EH-Net Live! August 2019 For those who were able to join us live with Laura Chappell during Wireshark for ...