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, 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 ...

(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 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 ...

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: ...