To most, the term "internet port scanning" might sound like the kind of nonsensical technobabble you would hear on an episode of "NCIS." However, port scanning is a very real and widely used method, ...

Most people might figure that once you set up your network security-wise, what's done is done, and besides routine updates, not much is going to change. You fix things when something breaks, when a ...

Port scans, which are used to determine if ports on a network are open to receive packets from other devices, can be beneficial to security teams to help shore up defenses. But the process can also be ...

SYN scanning is a tactic that a malicious hacker can use to determine the state of a communications port without establishing a full connection. This approach, one of the oldest in the repertoire of ...

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 ...