Remember that scene in The Matrix when Trinity uses a realistic Nmap port scan, followed by an actual SSH exploit (long since patched) to break into a power company? Well, believe it or not, but that ...

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 ...

Discovering hosts and services isn't just something that hackers do. A good sysadmin needs to work with an up-to-date view of the systems they manage or those they want to keep an eye on. You have to ...

If you need to scan your network, nmap is the tool to use. Nmap can be installed on any Linux distribution. Nmap has several very handy commands. The nmap command (short for network mapper) is a ...