Homegroups and libraries on windows 7

One of the "newer" concepts of Windows 7 is the idea of Libraries and Homegroups. Libraries are nothing more than a collection of shortcuts that point to other folders present on your harddisk. The idea being that you can group these files and folders more conveniently in these libraries. Windows comes shipped with 4 default … Continue reading Homegroups and libraries on windows 7

Measuring Bandwidth using Wireshark

Update: For easy bandwidth visualization from packet captures, check out a web-based pcap parser we wrote: https://medium.com/cybersift/the-cybersift-packet-capture-parser-bandwidth-usage-43fe479ecaf0 There are of course several ways of measuring bandwidth usage from a particular PC. But when it comes to granularity and detail, almost nothing beats wireshark. Wireshark has several ways of showing the bandwidth being used, each method displays the … Continue reading Measuring Bandwidth using Wireshark