Another good nmap flag for beginners is –v which gives additional, verbose, output. With this set nmap will provide extra text explaining its actions and results. Flags can be combined to perform more ...

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 ...