Mark Baggett - In Depth Defense

IMHO, This is a long time coming for Windows. I love this thing. You probably already know about it, but I haven't read much about it anywhere and Its been very useful to me. Its a version of tcpdump for windows that doesn't require I install the Winpcap drivers. I use it along with PSEXEC to start remote sniffing probes on Windows workstations. I'm sure its NOT forensically sound to do this in on a box that may contain evidence because of the swap file, but for information gathering something like this is very useful. So with this.. http://www.microolap.com/downloads/tcpdump/tcpdump.zip Something like this \mytools\psexec.exe \\remotecomputer -c \mytools\tcpdump.exe -i 1 -s0 -w \\remotefileserver\share\capturename.cap Lets me turn every node on my network into a remote Snort probe, or just capture anamolies!

Note to readers:   This very old blog entry still gets a pretty high amount of traffic.  I rarely, but sometimes do get nasty emails from people telling me that I am "teaching people to steal identities".   If we assume that I am the only person in the world capable of reading the instructions published on the Social Security Administrations (SSA) website, that explain the same thing I have here, then I agree with you.  But if that were true then people not smart enough to understand the SSA's website would probably be stumped by this as well, so we are still safe.   If I was the only one who could understand that website that might make me the smartest person in the world!! (in which case who are you to question my wisdom?)  I asked my wife about the possibility that I was the smarted person in the world and she confirmed for me that I am not (she is still laughing for some reason).   The purpose of this site is to make people aware of the danger of simply sharing th