Ping Command

Ping Command

So in this computer hacking tricks tutorial, I wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t even show you one cool trick with the command line.

Now that you know how to open the command line prompt, type these characters in exactly, “ping google.com”. The ping command will call out to Google’s website, and Google will talk back to your computer. If you notice that after pinging Google you will see something that says packets sent, and packets received. What this means is this; packets are like little packages of information about the internet traffic going to and from computer to computer, or network to network. It is basically all the important information about your internet traffic.

Packets are what computers use to send and receive information, and that information in the packets tell the network where to send the traffic conversations. Hackers can use packet analyzers to do some serious damage to your computer or network. This why the ping command can be useful for a hacking attack and or use of cyberdefense.