You may have heard horror stories about how easy it is for evil system crackers to probe potential victims' systems for vulnerabilities using software tools readily available on the Internet. The bad ...

Introduction: This report presents the findings of a vulnerability test conducted on Metasploitable 2 with the IP address 192.168.251.43. The assessment was carried out using Nmap to gather ...

This project demonstrates a basic network reconnaissance scan using Nmap within a Kali Linux virtual machine. The scan targets the local host (127.0.0.1) to identify open ports, services, and ...

To perform such “stealth” scanning with nmap, use the –sS flag. This attempts a SYN scan and lists as output the open ports found on the target, along with the service name usually associated with ...

I recently was exchanging e-mail with someone who regularly needs to port scan his own network for vulnerability trending. The port scanning tool of choice for this task is Nmap, but managing the data ...

It is certainly well known that “hacker tools” can be used for many legitimate purposes. Nmap, the Network Mapper and security scanner is no exception. These days, it is used routinely to identify the ...