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Demo: Wireshark

Demo: Wireshark

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Demo: Wireshark

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- [Instructor] Wireshark is installed by default in Kali. and all you have to do to run it is open up a terminal and type in the word Wireshark. But before you do, in the terminal window I'd like you to type ifconfig. This command shows us the network adapters that are available within our virtual machine. ETH0, which maps to 10.0.2.15, is the default network adapter, the internal IP address, of our Kali virtual machine. If you were to connect a wireless network adapter to your Kali machine, you would see another adapter in this list, and you would see the inet4 or inet6 addresses that are associated with that adapter. This is important to know for Wireshark because we're going to narrow down which adapters we're monitoring when we run the tool. Instead of typing Wireshark at the command line, I'd like you to go to the application menu. Scroll down to "09 - Sniffing & Spoofing." And in the right hand side, Wireshark is at the bottom of the list. The reason I wanted to bring you here…

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