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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

So, I'm connecting to the internet through a WLAN network, but the I fear the Admin of this WLAN network is spying on me (or sniffing my data) while browsing the the Internet. He is the admin of the ...

Network Associates released a 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 data ...

Just a few short years ago, an IDS was a luxury. Before the rise of the Web application and the worm, most networks were adequately defended by a firewall at the perimeter and a virus scanner at the ...

BOSTON – 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...