The tools known as network sniffers are named after a product called the Sniffer Network Analyzer. Introduced in 1988 by Network General Corp. (now Network Associates Inc.), the Sniffer was one of the ...

Word from Network Associates last week that it is selling its Sniffer management tools business to narrow its focus on network security runs counter to an industry trend to tighten security and ...

Chances are, if you’re in charge of supporting a network of any size, you’ll need to look at the actual packets that are passing back and forth across that network. Whether it’s to see whether a ...

Network General’s Sniffer Portable was a bit difficult to install, but when we conquered the demons, we found that there have been numerous changes to the product. Network General’s Sniffer Portable ...

Network Associates Inc. announced the Sniffer Network Protection Platform last week, which includes a new appliance and revisions of existing software that analysts said will push the vendor into a ...

Q: After reading your recent column regarding email security, I want to share a personal story. I’ve always communicated with my CPA over email. He would use a secure link if files needed to be sent ...

In today’s world, it seems that more of the people I run across do not feel they need — or, more accurately, don’t understand why they need — a protocol analyzer for their network. In the old days ...

Organizations seeking a reliable ally to help defend the network should seriously consider enlisting Wireshark, a free, open source network protocol analyzer that has been around since 1998. Created ...

Network Associates released a new hardware appliance and updated software on Tuesday that will extend the reach of that company’s Sniffer network traffic management technology from remote users into ...

Over three million POP3 and IMAP mail servers without TLS encryption are currently exposed on the Internet and vulnerable to network sniffing attacks. With the Windows 10 October 2018 update release, ...

Usually when we see a project using a software-defined radio (SDR), the SDR’s inputs and outputs are connected to antennae, but [FromConceptToCircuit]’s project connected an ADALM-Pluto SDR to an RF ...