Beginners Guide To Wireshark in 10 minutes

Vinsloev
6 min readJan 4, 2021

In this article we will dive into Wireshark, the worlds foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. This tutorial covers tracking of network activity, TCP, IP and HTTP/S packages. We will also learn how to eavesdropping on username and password from unsecure websites.

Before we get started I would like to mention that this tutorial can also be seen in video format, should you either prefer such format or simple need a visual presentation of the examples displayed throughout this tutorial if you at any point get stuck. The video can be seen here: https://youtu.be/lb1Dw0elw0Q

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Installing Wireshark

If you already have Wireshark installed you can skip this part.

Navigate to https://www.wireshark.org and click Download from the main page. Then simply just choose the installation package that match your device OS. (Windows, Mac or Linux).

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