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Exploring Nmap

Exploring Nmap

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Exploring Nmap

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- [Instructor] Nmap is a security scanner that is built into Kali Linux. Nmap scans the network to discover hosts and services and charge the network and devices that are alive. Nmap natively doesn't create a map as it is a command line tool. There are options that are graphical instead of a command line interface. Zenmap is the sister product that has all the functionality of Nmap, but uses a gooey. I'll go over some common Nmap scans and options but a helpful reference can be found from the Nmap book here at this webpage. Here's some shortcuts that you can see for host discovery, scanning techniques, and service and version detection. With a simple host discovery or ping scan, we can see the syntax in order for us to run that. Nmap is going to let you know the status as it searches. In addition, the NIC fender is listed if known. As knowing the vendor can be helpful as some NIC cards have vulnerabilities. I can also…

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