Posts Tagged wireless

What is Promiscuous Mode?

The Promiscuous mode is a specific receive mode for network-technology devices such as wireless network cards. It is normally used for packet sniffing and bridged network for hardware virtualization. The frames include the MAC (Media Access Control) address of the hardware.

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iPhone Meets Wireshark – Capture Wireless Network Traffic from Mobile Devices

I wanted to see what the apps on my iPhone do and as I searched around, most of the current methods seem to involve jail-breaking, setting up hubs and access points and other such cumbersome nastiness. Gotta be simpler than that. So we are releasing a simple libpcap tool that you can run on your Mac to intercept packets from any app on any mobile device. iPad, iPhone, Android are all fair game. Once you can capture, you can very easily fuzz and scale test with Mu Studio.

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Sniff iPhone Wireless Network Traffic

Ever wanted to see your iPhone’s wireless network traffic? All you need is a wireless LAN and the cross-platform proxy application, Paros. Paros was built for web application security assessments, so it provides an intimate hook into the HTTP request/response flow.

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