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 ...

Remember that scene in The Matrix when Trinity uses a realistic Nmap port scan, followed by an actual SSH exploit (long since patched) to break into a power company? Well, believe it or not, but that ...

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 ...

Nmap is a popular and versatile tool for port scanning, network discovery, and security auditing, but its scan results can be complex to interpret. Vulnerability remediation platform maker Vicarius ...

(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 ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vicarius, developers of the industry’s first fully autonomous end-to-end vulnerability remediation platform, has announced the release of a new free offering—Nmap Scan ...

The two software vendors signed a license agreement to jointly develop the software using the Nmap Scripting Engine embedded within the Nmap network discovery tool. Under the terms of the agreement, ...

With the release of the much-awaited Linux 2.4.0 kernel early this year, GNU/Linux received a major boost toward entering the realm of enterprise-class operating systems. Several areas of the kernel ...

Hacking is a state of mind. Traditionally, hackers like to discover, understand and share the secrets they expose. They like to laugh at the dumb things they find. They’re not necessarily in it for ...