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Sniffing is an eavesdropping attempt which consists of capturing packets transmitted through a third party network and reading the data in search of confidential information.

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Are there any HTTP/HTTPS interception tools like Fiddler for mac OS X?

I would like to know if there are any applications like fiddler but for mac OS X, as I need to debug some requests from web applications in Mac OS X. I used to do it with fiddler on Windows and would love to have this tool available on Mac as well.
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iPhone and WireShark

How can I sniff packets from my iPhone on my network? can someone give me some instructions? I tried Googling, but nothing teaches how to sniff iPhone packets、 I am on windows.
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How to sniff a USB port under Windows?

From time to time, I need to dump USB traffic under Windows, mostly to support hardware under Linux, so my primary goal is to produce dump files for protocol analysis. For USB traffic, it seems that SniffUsb is the clear winner... It works under…
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Serial / Com Port monitor for Windows x64

Can anyone recommend any good Com port monitor tools, like Portmon, which also work on Windows x64? Ideally something open source / freeware would be good.
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NEPacketTunnelProvider Sniffer iOS

As I recently found this paper describing a sniffing mechanism for iOS using Apple's NEPacketTunnelProvider Extension, I got curious and it made me want to understand it from a technical point of view. As I usually don't work at a deep network layer…
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How to intercept packets sent by an application and check their header and content?

I'd like to know how can I intercept packets sent by a certain application and then to check what those packets contain. I need some advice what to do because I've never done such a thing and I want to learn by myself.
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Why is browser sniffing not a recommended practice?

You hear it all over the place: using javascript to sniff the user agent string to detect browser versions is a Very Bad Thing. The latest version of jQuery has now deprecated its $.browser object in place of $.support. But what should I do if…
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Packet sniffing in Python (Windows)

What is the best way to sniff network packets using Python? I've heard from several places that the best module for this is a module called Scapy, unfortunately, it makes python.exe crash on my system. I would assume that it's just a problem with…
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Raw Socket Sniffing in Golang

I have a question concerning tcp packet sniffing with golang. We have written a small tool which captures all incoming TCP packets comming from a fibre Tap. The current implementation uses a libpcap wrapper under Linux. We need to port this tool…
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how to debug an ssl connection?

I have a client application that connects to a web service over https. I need to "sniff" all the network traffic between web service and my client to check if everything is okay, i.e, i have to debug the connection. I have tried Wireshark but since…
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pcap_loop and pcap_dispatch Difference

What exactly is the difference between pcap_loop and pcap_dispatch?
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Strange RAW Socket on Mac OS X

When i run a simple packet sniffer coded in C on my Mac OS X, i got no output at all, this is a strange thing! can someone help me to understand what going on. #include #include #include #include…
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Sniffing Android app's HTTPS traffic from Fiddler fails with only 'Tunnel To' entries in Fiddler

I am trying to capture HTTPS traffic from my rooted Android device (4.4.4) to analyze an undocumented protocol of an app. I've set up my Fiddler as a proxy and enabled HTTPS sniffing. I've installed the Fiddler's generated root certificate on my…
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Can't install Ettercap with Graphical mode using Homebrew

I can't install Ettercap to my OSX 10.7.8 using homebrew. Homebrew allowed me to install Ettercap but I can't rub it with graphical mode somehow. ➜ ~ ettercap -G ettercap 0.7.6 copyright 2001-2013 Ettercap Development Team GTK support is not…
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How to sniff local outgoing network traffic in .NET without using PCap?

I'd like to somehow hook into the local system's network stack to capture outgoing network packets without using Winpcap. Unfortunately it tends to crash my system every now and then. Is there a way to "sniff" outgoing traffic of the local system…
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