Many people ask this question: Can Wireshark capture passwords? Well, the answer is definitely yes!

Wireshark can capture not only passwords, but any kind of information passing through the network – usernames, email addresses, personal information, pictures, videos, anything. As long as we are in position to capture network traffic, Wireshark can sniff the passwords going through.

But the question is – what kind of passwords? Or more precisely – passwords from which network protocols can we capture? That’s the topic of the next lecture.