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 ...

The great thing about tools is that you often can misuse them for a completely different purpose. The end of a screwdriver makes a passable hammer; a butter knife can be a screwdriver, and even a ...

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 ...

(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 is a well-known open source tool that has found a home in the hearts of hackers, both white and black alike. Though it was first created in the late 1990s, it leapt into the pop culture ...

I posted this in Other Hardware but I suppose it counts as being linux related View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif<P>I got a buddy of mine to run an nmap ...