The tools known as network sniffers are named after a product called the Sniffer Network Analyzer. Introduced in 1988 by Network General Corp. (now Network Associates Inc.), the Sniffer was one of the ...

Word from Network Associates last week that it is selling its Sniffer management tools business to narrow its focus on network security runs counter to an industry trend to tighten security and ...

Sniffers are tools — sometimes referred to as network analyzers — commonly used for monitoring network traffic. The term packet sniffing refers to the technique of copying individual packets as they ...

The Sniffer Technologies division of Network Associates Inc. on Monday will finally address the small to medium-sized business market with a light version of its Sniffer protocol analyzer. The new ...

Network Performance Orchestrator (nPO) provides a centralized, Web-based view into data gathered by the Sniffer Distributed fault isolation and performance management tool. The Sniffer product line ...

Chances are, if you’re in charge of supporting a network of any size, you’ll need to look at the actual packets that are passing back and forth across that network. Whether it’s to see whether a ...

Security firm SOCRadar says the large-scale FortiBleed campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate devices used custom sniffers to harvest authentication secrets from compromised firewalls and steal ...

Sniffer Technologies took its first steps out from under the umbrella of McAfee Inc., emerging Friday as a new, independent and privately held company called Network General Corp. The company was ...

Organizations seeking a reliable ally to help defend the network should seriously consider enlisting Wireshark, a free, open source network protocol analyzer that has been around since 1998. Created ...

Q: After reading your recent column regarding email security, I want to share a personal story. I’ve always communicated with my CPA over email. He would use a secure link if files needed to be sent ...

Network Associates released a new hardware appliance and updated software on Tuesday that will extend the reach of that company’s Sniffer network traffic management technology from remote users into ...

In one of my classes, a discussion came up about the usefulness of sniffers in today's networks. If you're the type that thinks they're still important, what for? What issues do they solve that can't ...