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Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

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Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786467454
Length 416 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Paulino Calderon (@calderpwn on Twitter) is the cofounder of Websec, a company offering information security consulting services based in Mexico and Canada. When he is not traveling to a security conference or conducting on-site consulting for Fortune 500 companies, he spends peaceful days in Cozumel, a beautiful small island in the Caribbean, learning new technologies, conducting big data experiments, developing new tools, and finding bugs in software. Paulino is active in the open source community, and his contributions are used by millions of people in the information security industry. In 2011, Paulino joined the Nmap team during the Google Summer of Code to work on the project as an NSE developer. He focused on improving the web scanning capabilities of Nmap, and he has kept contributing to the project since then. In addition, he has been a mentor for students who focused on vulnerability detection during the Google Summer of Code 2015 and 2017. He has published Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook and Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine, which cover practical tasks with Nmap and NSE development in depth. He loves attending information security conferences, and he has given talks and participated in workshops in dozens of events in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Curacao.
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Preface 1. Nmap Fundamentals 2. Network Exploration FREE CHAPTER 3. Reconnaissance Tasks 4. Scanning Web Servers 5. Scanning Databases 6. Scanning Mail Servers 7. Scanning Windows Systems 8. Scanning ICS SCADA Systems 9. Optimizing Scans 10. Generating Scan Reports 11. Writing Your Own NSE Scripts 12. HTTP, HTTP Pipelining, and Web Crawling Configuration Options 13. Brute Force Password Auditing Options 14. NSE Debugging 15. Additional Output Options 16. Introduction to Lua 17. References and Additional Reading

Scanning Databases

This chapter covers the following recipes:

  • Listing MySQL databases
  • Listing MySQL users
  • Listing MySQL variables
  • Brute forcing MySQL passwords
  • Finding root accounts with an empty password in MySQL servers
  • Detecting insecure configurations in MySQL servers
  • Brute forcing Oracle passwords
  • Brute forcing Oracle SID names
  • Retrieving information from MS SQL servers
  • Brute forcing MS SQL passwords
  • Dumping password hashes of MS SQL servers
  • Running commands through xp_cmdshell in MS SQL servers
  • Finding system administrator accounts with empty passwords in MS SQL servers
  • Obtaining information from MS SQL servers with NTLM enabled
  • Retrieving MongoDB server information
  • Detecting MongoDB instances with no authentication enabled
  • Listing MongoDB databases
  • Listing CouchDB databases
  • Retrieving CouchDB database statistics
  • Detecting Cassandra databases with no authentication enabled
  • Brute forcing Redis passwords
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Paulino Calderon (@calderpwn on Twitter) is the cofounder of Websec, a company offering information security consulting services based in Mexico and Canada. When he is not traveling to a security conference or conducting on-site consulting for Fortune 500 companies, he spends peaceful days in Cozumel, a beautiful small island in the Caribbean, learning new technologies, conducting big data experiments, developing new tools, and finding bugs in software. Paulino is active in the open source community, and his contributions are used by millions of people in the information security industry. In 2011, Paulino joined the Nmap team during the Google Summer of Code to work on the project as an NSE developer. He focused on improving the web scanning capabilities of Nmap, and he has kept contributing to the project since then. In addition, he has been a mentor for students who focused on vulnerability detection during the Google Summer of Code 2015 and 2017. He has published Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook and Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine, which cover practical tasks with Nmap and NSE development in depth. He loves attending information security conferences, and he has given talks and participated in workshops in dozens of events in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Curacao.
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