The great thing about tools is that you often can misuse them for a completely different purpose. The end of a screwdriver makes a passable hammer; a butter knife can be a screwdriver, and even a ...

Officials at Cnet’s Download.com site have issued a statement apologizing for bundling the popular open source Nmap security audit application with adware that changed users’ search engine and home ...

Nmap is a well-known open source tool that has found a home in the hearts of hackers, both white and black alike. Though it was first created in the late 1990s, it leapt into the pop culture ...

Use nmap –sP host to perform a ping sweep, where host is the individual hostname or IP address you wish to target or a range of addresses by writing in CIDR-style format with /numbits appended to an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nmap is a powerful utility for scanning your network and discovering all kinds of information about who is on it and what they’re doing.

Does anyone know if I can find out which user is logged in by nmap? If not nmap, what can do this?<BR><BR>thanks in advance.