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Suspect Exchange Server appears to be hacked. How to determine if it was a false positive?

Our security vendor detected that our client's CAS server was doing a nessus scan in the internal network. It's not uncommon for this vendor to issue a false positive, but I'm looking for general ...
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How to introduce delay in scanning tools that do not implement delay without touching source code?

Usually scanning tools implement a switch in order to delay requests and not flood the target. Sometimes there tools that do not implement this delay option. Is there a way to delay packets from ...
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Online security check via command line

My scenario is that I have a VPS with Apache (mostly for development of my own projects) accessed via SSH; and I time to time I would like to do a quick check just to be sure that there's no potential ...
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Reverse scan from cloud authentication server [closed]

I was wondering if the vulnerability scan is OK to perform on IP trying to register an account via internet. This is to help identifying rouge hosts. Do I need to put this in terms and conditions? I ...
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What should a Vulnerability Management System scan on a large scale

On a large scale (~1500 workstations, ~100 servers, ~50 network routers and switches, etc), what should a vulnerability management system be scanning? Should it scan everything, or just samples? I ...
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nmap scan shows ports are filtered but nessus scan shows no result

I'm performing an port scanning on a range of IPs on our remote site. I tried running nmap scan on that IP range and some of the IP result are shown as filtered When I perform a nessus scan on the ...
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2answers
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Scan Novell NetWare backend with Windows servers and clients

Could anyone provide some insight on performing an internal vulnerability assessment regarding Novell NetWare as the backend with client workstations and servers running various versions of Windows? ...
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1answer
359 views

Good software for IT Infrastructure discovery

Currently, I have an industry attachment project in which my group need to suggest a good tool for Network discovery to a IT service company. The company wants to automate the stage in which they have ...
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TCP / UDP port monitoring programs for mac?

Does anyone know of a free and effective port monitor for mac? Also, can a laymen, in relatively short order, learn to use such software to detect and thus prevent unauthorized remote access/control ...
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Open-source penetration-test automation

Has anyone built a metascript, or a `script of scripts' useful during a penetration-test? Do you use Metasploit RC files? A network vulnerability scanner in a special way? A command-line, custom, or ...