gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » network miner http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:32:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Network Security Analysis With Network Minerhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/27/network-security-analysis-with-network-miner/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/27/network-security-analysis-with-network-miner/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:05:45 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10174 Network Miner is a portable Open Source network security analysis tool that can monitor the traffic of a connected network adapter in the Windows operating system. It utilizes a build in passive network sniffer / packet capturing tool that can detect IPs, hostnames, operating systems, ports and various other information of every connection. The network security tool requires the – separate – installation of WinPcap to function properly and reliable.

The main purpose of Network Miner is data collection for future analysis (such as forensic evidence analysis) rather than collecting data regarding the traffic on the network. Information are grouped by host rather than by packets or frames although it is possible to switch the view modes easily in the software interface.

Network Miner can – among other things – extract files and certificates transferred over the network. This can be used to save media files that are streamed across the network.

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Another interesting ability is the extraction of user credentials – that is usernames and passwords for supported protocols which are then displayed in the credentials tab in Network Miner.

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