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How to use NMap to portscan a SonicWall that is blocking all attemtps?
It seems that SonicWall is blocking attemtps to scan its ports. I know it has some ports open, like 443, because if I access using the browser I get a web site. But when I try to use NMap I can't see ...
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How do I find a target on the wired network, from an attack system on Wi-Fi?
I'm trying to practice penetration testing on my home network. The target system is my desktop computer, which is connected to the network via ethernet cable. The attack system is my laptop, which is ...
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OS fingerprinting: can I rely on the results?
Using nmap -O www.example.com I get:
Running (JUST GUESSING): Microsoft Windows 7|2008 (90%)
So I can say the target site is running Windows.
Using xprobe2 -v www.example.com, I'm just astonished ...
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What are the best Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) service discovery scripts? [closed]
Using nmap -sV can be quite verbose can -sU can take a very long time especially with -p 0-65535. To narrow your results and enumerate interesting services the wealth of NSE scripts can be very ...
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is it possible to test out remote host by using nmap?
I was trying to test out my friend's computer (with agreement) by using nmap remotely. But the result I got seems kinda awkward to me. It only showed 1900 as tcpwrapper and all other ports were no ...
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Could Nmap scan switches/routers
Nmap can scan and sometimes successfully detect the running OS in the remote host. However, can nmap scan routers and switches? Most of them use an embedded system.
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Scanning my network with NMAP
Each computer is assigned one ip address on my network, and my ISP supplies one IP for my network. If I try to scan the ip supplied by my ISP what I got is the OS running on the router, running on the ...
