Wireshark Packet Capture
To begin with, I installed the 32-bit version of the Wireshark application which is compatible with my computer operating system. Afterward, I launched it as shown below.
After launching the Wireshark app, I opened the browser by clicking on the given link of the demo.testfire.net website.
After launching the website, I moved back to the Wireshark app where I initiated the capturing of packets by clicking the bluefin of a shark on the top left of the website interface. After this, I returned to the demo.testfile.net website to sign in by entering the password and username as ‘tweety’ and ‘johndoe’ respectively, upon which I encountered a login error message.
After getting the login error from an attempt to sign up into the website, I moved back to the Wireshark interface and stopped the packet capturing process by clicking the red stop button on the top-left corner. The Wireshark captured a total of 269 packets.
To prove that the application captured the login username and password to the demo.testfile.net website, I narrowed down on the website’s HTTP information. This generated the plaintext of the password for the johndoe username which contains its encrypted information and algorithms.
In this regard, it is noteworthy that the Wireshark app is capable of capturing data packets from insecure websites, particularly those whose URLs start with HTTP instead of https. I realized that the application ran as expected since it successfully captured the data packets of the demo.testfile.net website and proved its insecurity.
The website’s password plaintext is stored in the cookie and cookie pair as shown below, although it is insecure.
I believe that the Wireshark tool is vital in the workplace since it can help in assessing the level of security of the organizational websites as well as detecting any traces of hacking or a breach of the workplace data security. Besides, the Wireshark app can be utilized to monitor data and network traffic on websites while establishing their sources and destination.