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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 (18 chapters)
13
Brute Force Password Auditing Options
17
References and Additional Reading

Concatenation

To concatenate strings, use the operator ..:

   local c = “Hey “
local b = c..”nmaper!”
print(b)

The output will be as follows:

   Hey nmaper!

String to number (and viceversa) conversion is done automatically by Lua.

Finding substrings

There will be a lot of occasions when you will need to know if a certain string is a substring of another string object, for example, to match the response of a network request. We can do this with Lua in a few different ways with the help of the following functions:

   string.find(s, pattern [, init [, plain]])
string.match(s, pat)
string.gmatch(s, pat)

The function string.find returns the position of the beginning and end of the string occurrence, or nil if not found. It...