Thanks to ISC reader Bob who told us that Wireshark updated one of our favourite tools. This is a new release branch of Wireshark and they have added many new features including a 64-bit Windows (x64) installer, Macintosh OS X support has been improved, GeoIP lookups has been added to name a few. This release also comes with WinPcap 4.1beta5 rather than the older stable 4.0.2.

References:

Release announcement: http://www.wireshark.org/news/20090615.html

Release Notes and bug fixes: http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.0.html

Guy Bruneau IPSS Inc. gbruneau at isc dot sans dot org

Teaching Comprehensive Packet Analysis in Ottawa, ON this coming September