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Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

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Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

Overview of this book

Nmap is a well known security tool used by penetration testers and system administrators. The Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) has added the possibility to perform additional tasks using the collected host information. Tasks like advanced fingerprinting and service discovery, information gathering, and detection of security vulnerabilities."Nmap 6: Network exploration and security auditing cookbook" will help you master Nmap and its scripting engine. You will learn how to use this tool to do a wide variety of practical tasks for pentesting and network monitoring. Finally, after harvesting the power of NSE, you will also learn how to write your own NSE scripts."Nmap 6: Network exploration and security auditing cookbook" is a book full of practical knowledge for every security consultant, administrator or enthusiast looking to master Nmap. The book overviews the most important port scanning and host discovery techniques supported by Nmap. You will learn how to detect mis-configurations in web, mail and database servers and also how to implement your own monitoring system. The book also covers tasks for reporting, scanning numerous hosts, vulnerability detection and exploitation, and its strongest aspect; information gathering.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

Generating an HTML scan report


HTML pages have a particular strength over other file formats; they can be viewed in the web browsers that are shipped with most devices. For this reason, users might find it useful to generate scan reports in HTML and upload them somewhere for easy access.

The following recipe will show you how to generate an HTML page displaying scan results taken from an XML results file.

Getting Ready...

For this task we will use a tool called "XSLT processor". There are a few options available for different platforms, but the most popular one for Unix systems is called "xsltproc"; if you are running a modern Linux, there is a good chance that you already have it installed. "Xsltproc" also works on Windows, but it requires that you add some additional libraries to it.

If you are looking for other cross-platform XSLT (and XQuery) processor, which is easier to install on Windows, go to http://saxon.sourceforge.net/. They offer a free version of "saxon", which is based on Java...