Knowing what services are running on your systems, and being able to identify if and when any of those services change, is the first step in securing your netwsork. Many tools can accomplish this, but ...

A number of weeks ago, I provided and described a script that uses nmap to quickly scan a system or subnet for activity on a particular port. Useful for detecting, say, web servers or Oracle ...

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 ...

If you're looking for a way to discover which ports are standing wide open on network machines, read about a powerful cross-platform solution that will do the trick. Editor’s note on June 4, 2015: ...

I posted this in Other Hardware but I suppose it counts as being linux related View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif<P>I got a buddy of mine to run an nmap ...