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Nmap Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Paulino Calderon
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Nmap Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook, Third Edition - Third Edition

By: Paulino Calderon

Overview of this book

Nmap is one of the most powerful tools for network discovery and security auditing used by millions of IT professionals, from system administrators to cybersecurity specialists. This third edition of the Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook introduces Nmap and its family - Ncat, Ncrack, Ndiff, Zenmap, and the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) - and guides you through numerous tasks that are relevant to security engineers in today’s technology ecosystems. The book discusses some of the most common and useful tasks for scanning hosts, networks, applications, mainframes, Unix and Windows environments, and ICS/SCADA systems. Advanced Nmap users can benefit from this book by exploring the hidden functionalities within Nmap and its scripts as well as advanced workflows and configurations to fine-tune their scans. Seasoned users will find new applications and third-party tools that can help them manage scans and even start developing their own NSE scripts. Practical examples featured in a cookbook format make this book perfect for quickly remembering Nmap options, scripts and arguments, and more. By the end of this Nmap book, you will be able to successfully scan numerous hosts, exploit vulnerable areas, and gather valuable information.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Appendix A: HTTP, HTTP Pipelining, and Web Crawling Configuration Options
Appendix Β: Brute-Force Password Auditing Options
Appendix F: References and Additional Reading

Scanning with Rainmap Lite

Rainmap Lite is a web application designed for running Nmap scans from any web browser. It was designed to be light and to depend on as few dependencies as possible. It is perfect for installing on a remote server and then just logging in from your phone and scheduling scans when you are on the road.

In this recipe, you will learn how to launch a Nmap scan using Rainmap Lite.

Getting ready

To run Rainmap Lite, we need to download the code and run the application as follows:

  1. Grab the latest stable version of Rainmap Lite:
    $git clone https://github.com/cldrn/rainmap-lite.git
  2. Install Django and the only project dependency, lxml:
    $ pip install Django
    $ pip install lxml
  3. Change your working directory to the newly created folder and create the database schema:
    $python manage.py migrate
  4. Load the default scanning profiles:
    $python manage.py loaddata nmapprofiles
  5. Locate the nmaper-cronjob.py file and update it, and also adjust the notification...