Wireshark Tutorial for Beginners | Network Scanning Made Easy

Learn how to use Wireshark to easily capture packets and analyze network traffic. View packets being sent to and from your network connected devices, scan for malicious network activity and learn how to navigate through all of the sniffed packets. It’s time to finally see who’s accessing your network!

📋 Table of Contents

Intro: 00:00
Installing: 00:24
Capture devices: 00:35
Capturing packets: 01:06
What is a packet?: 01:44
The big picture (conversations): 02:34
What to look for?: 04:26
Right-click filtering: 05:27
Capturing insecure data (HTTP): 07:25
Filtering HTTP: 08:43
Viewing packet contents: 09:18
Viewing entire streams: 10:05
Viewing insecure data: 10:21
Filtering HTTPS (secure) traffic: 11:45
Buttons: 12:44
Coloring rules: 13:32
Packet diagrams: 15:03
Delta time: 15:48
Filter: Hide protocols: 16:42
Filter: Show SYN flags: 17:19
Filter: Show flagged packets: 17:53
Filter: Connection releases: 18:33
Examples & exercises: 19:10

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[AnsonAlexander]

CORRECTION: At 11:45 HTTPS traffic goes on port 443, not 80. The correct filter is: "tcp.port==443". Port 80 is usually HTTP traffic. Sorry, had a lot going on in this one!

[hadestech]

Anson, outstanding fast simple straight forward. Thanks

[llwycko]

Where was this when I was in university, that actually sums up more than I learned on how to use wireshark in my first semester.

[bricejackson]

Amazing video. Very clear and to the point! Subscribed!

[johnrieley]

Thanks much for clear teaching and nice graphics. Just studying my ham radio UDP multicasting network with WSJT-X, JTAlert, Log4OM, and Grid Tracker. This is getting deep!

[collectorscloset]

Seriously the most useful video on this thanks

[edwinfrancisco]

I have been watching videos on the topic of Wireshark. Your video blew all of those videos out of the water! Your step-by-step examples and tips were so helpful! I also really like how your video was straight to the point! THANK YOU!!

[ipaemer]

Very helpful and great video! I would also like to watch more videos about wireshark, to learn more. Excellent work!

[TityBoiSwag]

Best video I’ve seen explaining WireShark.

[sbutler]

You've got an absolutely amazing ability to explain things quickly and clearly. I tend to get bored and distracted when I visit YouTuber videos explaining topics like these so I quickly jump to something else. People can talk so slow and repeat themselves so many times, I get antsy to hear what's next. I'm learning a lot from your video. I just downloaded Wireshark yesterday. I graduated over 30 years ago with a BSEE and haven't written ANY code for well over 20 years. I've been able to pick up enough to start troubleshooting the massive data consumption issue I'm having on my plan. Consumption has more than doubled in one month with only 2 of us in our home. I can now identify which device is consuming the largest amount of data at any given time. WOO HOO!! Still waiting for Comcast to call me after multiple calls and Agent Chats. I hope to figure out my issue myself with help from providers like you! THANK YOU!!

[eechaze]

Thanks for this tutorial. I'm new to using Wireshark

[DComputing]

Nice someone that actually makes it work in the real world for IOT and such, not just big url talk. Thanks

[morganwebster]

So helpful for a newbie like myself. Totally able to comprehend your whole video. Thank you.

[littop]

great video, really helped me grasp the basics of wireshark

[francissaanane]

Thank You, awesome Wireshark details.

[JAXXYT-wttz]

I am impressed by the easy way this boy giving the information you really make me eager to learn how this Wireshark works.

[MrKashifiq]

Outstanding and thanks for sharing the knowledge!!

[eddiegerlach]

Thank you for this tutorial. I am starting my new career in Cybersecurity and really appreciate the Malware-Traffic-Analysis suggestion. The class I'm taking just started discussing tools and I find Wireshark a bit overwhelming and intimidating, hence my search to your video. I believe this will assist greatly in gaining a greater understanding and competency with Wireshark! Subscribed!! :)

[shreyaskarthik]

really helpful, very consise and amazing pacing, thank you :)

[christianminardi]

Thank you for the Knowledge!! Great videos