October 2009

Packet sniffing for Admins and Developers

Why would a network admin, security admin or a network developer be concerned with packet tracing software like Wireshark or Snort? To some that answer might be extremely clear, but others maybe not so much. The basic premises is that a packet tracing program like Wireshark or my own sniff is that it can read all the traffic that is coming in on the network adapter.

More Schooling

So today marks the first day of classes for me. Going for another degree, this one will be in Information Technology: Systems Security. It will be mildly amusing, especially classes like Desktop Computing. Yes I could have tested out of the class but I need to stay full time and I was a little late on the testing out of it so not really that big of a deal. I will have more interesting topics to talk about as I go on. Hopefully this degree will compliment the one I already have and everything will be good. And it figures that the site for backtrack is down this morning.