Archive of entries posted on October 2017

Monitoring network traffic with port mirroring

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If you would like to monitor the traffic between two network devices or network segments, you will need to obtain access to the packet flow between the two hosts or network segments.  In a virtual lab environment we have a number of options, and normally the opportunity to reconfigure things to get access. In a …

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Firefox Captive Portal Detection and Burp Suite

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If you get requests like this in Burp, and you don’t need or want them…… you need to disable captive portal detection. Eg: GET /success.txt HTTP/1.1 Host: detectportal.firefox.com There isn’t a easy checkbox to configure this, however it is possible to disable using about:config. In a new tab, type about:config in the address bar and …

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