Scanning hosts with nmap is a lot of fun.
How to get useful information from a remote web server using Nmap.
How to get useful information from a remote web server using Nmap.
The Ebay online-shopping website is running scripts to port scan users and determine if they are using a VPN and possibly attempting fradulent activity. But this is a compromise of security and trust. This can be blocked though. There is a lot of information about this here: https://blog.nem.ec/2020/05/24/ebay-port-scanning/. Judging by the information in that blog … Read more
Securing your website against online attacks is very important. There are many online tools and distributions like Backtrack and Kali that have mass-scanning tools to use against a website. Below is what a mass-scanning attack on a website looks like. This is searching for vulnerable scripts on an Apache website. As you can see, this … Read more
The p0f command for Kali Linux allows a user to listen in on traffic passing over a wireless network. I am using a Netgear WLAN adapter and I am listening in on an open Access Point. This is the command to use: p0f -i wlan0 this will start the p0f traffic sniffer. root@kali:~# p0f -i … Read more
Scanning for vulnerable ports is easy with the Kali Linux distribution. Here is a simple port scan of my Windows Server 2012 R2 laptop host OS using Kali Linux. homer@kali:~$ sudo nmap 192.168.1.6 Starting Nmap 6.46 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-05-28 20:44 EST Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.6 Host is up (1.0s latency). Not … Read more