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Mastering Nmap [Video]

By : Fotios Chantzis
Book Image

Mastering Nmap [Video]

By: Fotios Chantzis

Overview of this book

You will learn how to use this tool to implement a wide variety of practical tasks related to pentesting and network monitoring. The tutorial will start with installation techniques and then explain Nmap fundamentals. Moving on, we will cover the advanced functionalities of Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) such as libraries, scripts, APIs, and so on. You will be able to perform custom tasks, the fundamentals of Lua programming, scanning mail servers, scanning databases, windows machines, SCADA systems, and large networks.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
Chapter 1
Scanning Your First Targets
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Section 4
Service Version Detection
The aim of this video is to learn how to use Nmap’s Service Version Detection, why it is important and how it works behind the scenes. - The first step is to learn by example service scanning of a remote host. - Then, we discuss why version detection is important. - Finally, we analyze how Nmap’s version detection works behind the scenes.