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    Nmap Essentials
    Nmap Essentials
    Nmap Essentials
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    Nmap Essentials

    By David Shaw

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    About This Book
    • Get acquainted with the intricacies of Nmap's powerful software suite
    • Set up and configure NMAP for different network specifications effectively
    • Secure and troubleshoot large scale networks using the powerful features of NMAP with this easy-to-follow guide
    Who This Book Is For

    This book is for beginners who wish to start using Nmap, who have experience as a system administrator or of network engineering, and who wish to get started with Nmap.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMay 27, 2015
    ISBN9781783988600
    Nmap Essentials
    Author

    David Shaw

    David Shaw works as a journalist for Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, as well as translating from several languages, including German, Dutch, Russian, and French. He lives in Berlin.

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      Nmap Essentials - David Shaw

      Table of Contents

      Nmap Essentials

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Introduction to Nmap

      Nmap's humble beginnings

      The many uses of Nmap

      Installing Nmap

      Building Nmap from source

      Summary

      2. Network Fundamentals

      The structure of the Internet

      The OSI model

      Port scanning

      TCP and UDP

      Service banners

      Summary

      3. Nmap Basics

      How to choose a target

      Running a default scan

      Service version scans

      Logging scans

      Specified scan ranges

      Understanding the reason flag

      Summary

      4. Advanced Nmap Scans

      Host detection methods

      Running a ping agnostic scan

      Scanning UDP services

      Special TCP scans

      Operating system detection

      Increasing verbosity in scans

      Packet tracing

      Summary

      5. Performance Optimization

      Nmap timing optimization

      Customized host group sizes

      Increasing and decreasing parallelism

      Dealing with stuck hosts

      Delaying and increasing probe rates

      Summary

      6. Introduction to the Nmap Scripting Engine

      The history of the NSE

      The inner working of the NSE

      Finding Nmap scripts

      Running Nmap scripts

      Summary

      7. Writing Nmap Scripts

      Anatomy of an Nmap script

      Defining an Nmap script – script headers

      Triggering functions – the rule

      Defining a script's action

      Summary

      8. Additional Nmap Tools

      Attacking services with Ncrack

      Host detection with Nping

      File transfers and backdoors with Ncat

      Comparing Nmap results with Ndiff

      Summary

      9. Vulnerability Assessments and Tools

      Conducting vulnerability scans with Nessus

      Assessing web server issues with Nikto

      Identifying sensitive web directories with DirBuster

      Getting started with intercepting proxies

      Summary

      10. Penetration Testing with Metasploit

      Installing Metasploit

      Scanning with Metasploit

      Attacking services with Metasploit

      What to learn next

      Summary

      Index

      Nmap Essentials

      Nmap Essentials

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      Credits

      Author

      David Shaw

      Reviewers

      Rajdeep Bhattacharya

      Nikhil Kumar

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      About the Author

      David Shaw has extensive experience in many areas of information security. He began working in the trenches of perimeter analysis and conducting external threat research for large financial institutions. After switching to offensive security, he joined Redspin to conduct application security assessments and network penetration tests.

      David is currently the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Professional Services at Redspin, specializing in external and application security, and managing a team of highly skilled engineers. He has particular interests in complex threat modeling and unconventional attack vectors, and has been a speaker at THOTCON, NolaCon, ToorCon, LayerOne, DEF CON, BSides Las Vegas, BSides Los Angeles, and BSides Seattle.

      About the Reviewers

      Rajdeep Bhattacharya is a Principal Server Engineer at Nimbuzz Technologies, located in Gurgaon, India. He has been working on the security and scalability of different products for Nimbuzz. Currently, he is working on the behavior-driven development approach and the performance optimization of various caching layers. In his spare time, he enjoys listening to music, travelling, cooking, and playing table tennis.

      Nikhil Kumar is an Information Security Analyst at Biz2Credit Inc. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker, and has a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science. He has written many articles on web application security, security coding practices, web application firewalls, and so on.

      He has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in big hotshot applications, including Apple, Microsoft, and so on.

      He is currently pursuing the OSCP certification.

      Nikhil can be contacted on LinkedIn at https://in.linkedin.com/in/nikhil73.

      I would like to thank my family for their support. I would also like to thank my friends, mentor Jatin Jain, and Swati Bhardwaj who helped me in every situation. Next, I would like to thank everybody at Packt Publishing for giving me this opportunity.

      Aravinda Babu T is a senior staff member at Fornetix. In this role, he focuses on architecture and the development of encryption key orchestration technologies. He previously worked as an advisory software engineer in IBM Software Labs for the power servers division, and as an open source contributor in ONF for the wireless and mobility group. He has 14 years of experience in network security, datacom, and mobile technologies. He has also worked at Nokia, Motorola, and IBM previously. His experience includes mobile middleware, wireless LAN switches, UTM appliances, and HPC servers.

      Ravi Chandra Vinjanampati has been working in the infosec domain for the past 7 years. He holds a GCIH certification, has worked with global finance giants in the past, and is currently working with an engineering company.

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