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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

Scanning Web Servers

This chapter covers the following recipes:

  • Listing supported HTTP methods
  • Checking whether a web server is an open proxy
  • Discovering interesting files and folders in web servers
  • Abusing mod_userdir to enumerate user accounts
  • Brute forcing HTTP authentication
  • Brute forcing web applications
  • Detecting web application firewalls
  • Detecting possible XST vulnerabilities
  • Detecting XSS vulnerabilities
  • Finding SQL injection vulnerabilities
  • Detecting web servers vulnerable to slowloris denial of service attacks
  • Finding web applications with default credentials
  • Detecting web applications vulnerable to Shellshock
  • Detecting insecure cross-domain policies
  • Detecting exposed source code control systems
  • Auditing the strength of cipher suites in SSL servers
  • Scrapping e-mail accounts from web servers