Chapter 4: Network Scanning
This chapter deals with the first phase of ethical hacking: information gathering and reconnaissance. Information gathering is one of the most important aspects of ethical hacking. Without having proper access to the required information, it is extremely hard to carry out a successful attack. We will learn what network scanning is and how it can be used to carry out attacks in a network. We will go through the following topics in this chapter:
- Introduction to networking
- Data encapsulation in TCP/IP
- Introduction to Scapy
- Introduction to ARP
- Network scanner using Scapy based on ARP