Security scanner for computers and networks.
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How to detect hosts running in virtual machines with nmap?
I have to determine if a given subnet has virtual hosts.
Are there any ideas about what switches to use?
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nmap showing unknown IPs on private network
I had a go at scanning my home network with nmap, doing a 192.168.0.0/16 netscan. To my surprise, the results shown multiple live devices not only on 192.168.1.x (where all our known devices are) but ...
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Persisting and comparing NMAP scans
Does anyone have any good recommendations on a good tool for persisting NMAP scans to database?
It may be a tool for persisting or simply a java library for easy parsing of the nmap xml scan result ...
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How can I use nmap to distinguish between a normal linux machine and an android device?
According to this link: here, nmap 5.2 onwards is now supposed to detect android smartphones. I am using nmap 6.01 but it only identifies android devices as running a linux kernel.
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Are there any example domains where I can run my nmap scans just to learn?
I want to learn nmap and its various options. Are there any example domains which purposefully have security holes to facilitate learning nmap?
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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 ...
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How can I scan open ports without being traced back
I would like to scan open ports of a server. But as far as I know, when I try to scan the open ports with something like nmap in shell they would be able to trace me. Is there a way to secure this ...
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How to bypass tcpwrapped with nmap scan
I'd a scan task and I faced following result
Host is up (0.032s latency).
Scanned at 2012-10-25 16:06:38 AST for 856s
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
1/tcp open tcpwrapped
3/tcp open ...
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Sharing Nmap scan results in a web page
Is there a tool that allow the sharing of nmap scan results ? I know nmap can produce XML and I can easily convert them in HTML.
I would like to know if there is a tool with more features. For ...
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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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Which ports are potential security risks for nmap?
I'm using nmap and I am having trouble finding which ports are dangerous and pose the greatest security risks.
Which ports are potential security risks for nmap?
I was thinking samba, telnet, vnc ...
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OS Fingerprinting for Android
Are traditional OS-fingerprinting techniques effective in identifying Android smartphones (OS version) on a network. From my research I found most Android network mappers can be only run from Android ...
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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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Detect what is running on an open port?
I have a wireless camera in my network. Running nmap on the camera, I discovered that the port 1010 is open but I could not find what it is used for. I looked in the administration pannel and did not ...
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Nmap scan produces all “unknown”
I scanned both localhost, and the IP address of the LAN adapter, and this is the produced output.
Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-10-12 18:06 Eastern Daylight Time
Skipping SYN Stealth ...
