A number of weeks ago, I provided and described a script that uses nmap to quickly scan a system or subnet for activity on a particular port. Useful for detecting, say, web servers or Oracle ...

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 ...

(With -T1 it's 217sec). So -T5 helps but it's still very slow. An online port scanner like grc.com can find a port over the internet faster. I was hoping it could do ...

Nmap, short for Network Mapper, is a free and open source tool used for vulnerability checking, port scanning and, of course, network mapping. Despite being created back in 1997, Nmap remains the gold ...

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 ...

If you need to scan your network, nmap is the tool to use. Nmap can be installed on any Linux distribution. Nmap has several very handy commands. The nmap command (short for network mapper) is a ...

It's probably X. Adding “-nolisten tcp” to the line that launches X in “/etc/X11/kdm/Xservers” will stop X from listening on that port.<P>For example, the ...

If you're looking for a way to discover which ports are standing wide open on network machines, read about a powerful cross-platform solution that will do the trick. Editor’s note on June 4, 2015: ...

Last month we began exploring the dangerous and fun world of scanning, focusing on the powerful port scanner Nmap. Nmap helps system administrators and security auditors (and yes, prospective crackers ...