It is certainly well known that “hacker tools” can be used for many legitimate purposes. Nmap, the Network Mapper and security scanner is no exception. These days, it is used routinely to identify the ...

(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 ...

So far, in my previous articles on Nmap, we've looked at how the scanner can be used to map and audit a network, as well as track down noncompliant devices and services. But hackers can also use Nmap ...

Install nmap if you don't already have it on your Linux computer. Run "sudo apt-get install nmap" on Ubuntu, or "sudo dnf install nmap" on Fedora. To do a quick scan of your network and discover the ...

I recently was exchanging e-mail with someone who regularly needs to port scan his own network for vulnerability trending. The port scanning tool of choice for this task is Nmap, but managing the data ...