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Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook - Second Edition

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

By: Paulino Calderon

Overview of this book

This is the second edition of ‘Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook’. A book aimed for anyone who wants to master Nmap and its scripting engine through practical tasks for system administrators and penetration testers. Besides introducing the most powerful features of Nmap and related tools, common security auditing tasks for local and remote networks, web applications, databases, mail servers, Microsoft Windows machines and even ICS SCADA systems are explained step by step with exact commands and argument explanations. The book starts with the basic usage of Nmap and related tools like Ncat, Ncrack, Ndiff and Zenmap. The Nmap Scripting Engine is thoroughly covered through security checks used commonly in real-life scenarios applied for different types of systems. New chapters for Microsoft Windows and ICS SCADA systems were added and every recipe was revised. This edition reflects the latest updates and hottest additions to the Nmap project to date. The book will also introduce you to Lua programming and NSE script development allowing you to extend further the power of Nmap.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
13
Brute Force Password Auditing Options
17
References and Additional Reading

Introduction


Scan reports are useful to both penetration testers and system administrators. Penetration testers need to report their findings, whereas system administrators keep a network inventory to monitor their IT assets. However, a common mistake made by both is not to use the reporting capabilities within Nmap to speed up the generation of these reports.

Nmap can write the scan results in several formats, and it is up to the user whether to generate an HTML report, read it from a scripting language, or import it into a third-party security tool to continue testing other aspects of the targets. In this chapter, we will cover different tasks related to storing and processing scan reports. We start by introducing the different file formats supported by Nmap. Then, we move on to tips, such as using Zenmap to generate a network topology graph, reporting vulnerability checks, and generating reports in formats not supported officially. After going through the tasks covered in this chapter...