The great thing about tools is that you often can misuse them for a completely different purpose. The end of a screwdriver makes a passable hammer; a butter knife can be a screwdriver, and even a ...

So far, in my previous articles on Nmap, we've looked at how the scanner can be used to map and audit a network, as well as track down noncompliant devices and services. But hackers can also use Nmap ...

I recently was exchanging e-mail with someone who regularly needs to port scan his own network for vulnerability trending. The port scanning tool of choice for this task is Nmap, but managing the data ...