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Credit card hacker pleads guilty to fraud worth millions
News Gonzalez, along with 10 others from China, Eastern Europe and the US were accused in August 2008 of breaking into retail credit card payment systems using wardriving (searching for unsecured wireless networks while driving by with a... [14 Sep 2009]
Dear Google: 'Better protection please in Google Apps'
News However, Google doesn't offer the ability to encrypt potentially sensitive data created in other Google apps like Docs or Calendar by default, which means the communications could be stolen or snooped on by someone using a packet... [17 Jun 2009]
St. Francis Borgia High School Improves Wireless Reliability, Manageability and Security With D-Link Wi-Fi Upgrade
White Paper D-Link technician Brad Bester helped Adams map the network and survey the site with a wireless network sniffer. St. Francis Borgia High School students and faculty were getting bumped off their old wireless network... [03 Apr 2009]
Supporting the Converged Network
White Paper Meeting the Challenge  Sniffer Voice This the sixth of six technical briefing papers that examine the concepts, operation and analysis of converged networks  networking infrastructures based on the Internet... [18 Mar 2009]
Photos: Future safety tech on display
Photo The system can also be used to detect substances on tickets and EADS claims it's more accurate than sniffer dogs. This unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) could one day be used to monitor high-profile, large-scale events for... [15 Jan 2009]
Photos: A day in the life of a virus hunter
Photo Then, the analysts examine the inner workings of the malware using methods such as a port sniffer to monitor network traffic and by studying the list of processes running on the machine. With hundreds of new pieces of... [09 Oct 2008]
TechNet Webcast: The Art of Network Debugging (Level 200)
White Paper The presenter of this webcast use network examples to show how to use the network sniffer as a tool to isolate issues to a smaller subset of possibilities and be better able to fix the problem. When debugging network... [30 May 2008]
Photos: Cambridge innovation day abuzz with fresh tech
Photo Search and rescue flying saucers, sniffer bees and mobile maps are just some of the inventions that were showcased at a Cambridge University open day. The 'sniffer bees' are trained for a few hours to... [07 Sep 2007]
Is your office printer giving you the sniffles?
News The emissions were traced to printers, using an electronic sniffer, and were found to increase during the day as printers were left on standby, or in use. Office laser printers are as unhealthy as cigarettes, according... [01 Aug 2007]
Learn to love your network again
Comment Even though policies may be in place and 'network sniffer' applications running these changes can sometimes be overlooked and provide breaches in security. Before securing or managing their networks companies must first... [26 Mar 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wi-fi London
Comment As with my prior UK rural survey - see my earlier blog - this didn't involve any special equipment or antennas, only a standard laptop with a software wi-fi sniffer. Written on BA285 whilst flying London to San Francisco. [31 Jan 2007]
VoIP: Don't forget about security
Comment I'm waiting to see the security tool which is a network packet sniffer that reassembles packets on the fly," Murray says. VoIP has many upsides but moving your telephony system to a packet-based network could leave you... [09 Aug 2005]
Spyware: What are you signing up for?
News It also strictly forbids users from using spyware scanning tools such as "a packet sniffer or other device to intercept or access communications between GP and the GAIN AdServer". A leading spyware expert has hit out at... [18 Jan 2005]
Network Associates undergoes McAfee name change
News As part of the transformation, Network Associates is selling its Sniffer Technologies unit and its line of network-management tools to Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group for $275m in cash. Network Associates... [01 Jul 2004]
Leave your neighbour's WLAN alone
News For the security conscious but not cash-rich, one option is a sniffer - a handheld device that tracks down any authorised access points around the network boundaries. WLAN networks will continue to plague businesses with... [11 Jun 2004]
