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 ...

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 ...

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 ...