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 ...

Introduction: This report presents the findings of a vulnerability test conducted on Metasploitable 2 with the IP address 192.168.251.43. The assessment was carried out using Nmap to gather ...

This project demonstrates a basic network reconnaissance scan using Nmap within a Kali Linux virtual machine. The scan targets the local host (127.0.0.1) to identify open ports, services, and ...

To perform such “stealth” scanning with nmap, use the –sS flag. This attempts a SYN scan and lists as output the open ports found on the target, along with the service name usually associated with ...

Since technology is not going anywhere and does more good than harm, adapting is the best course of action. That is where The Tech Edvocate comes in. We plan to cover the PreK-12 and Higher Education ...

How can you be sure your network is secure? Before you can patch vulnerabilities you need to discover them. You need to think like a cracker might. You need to hack your own system. This is known as ...

If SSH is the Swiss Army knife of the system administration world, Nmap is a box of dynamite. It's really easy to misuse dynamite and blow your foot off, but it's also a very powerful tool that can do ...