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KALI LINUX NETWORK SCANNING COOKBOOK

You're reading from   KALI LINUX NETWORK SCANNING COOKBOOK Over 90 hands-on recipes explaining how to leverage custom scripts, and integrated tools in Kali Linux to effectively master network scanning

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783982141
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Justin Hutchens Justin Hutchens
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Discovery Scanning FREE CHAPTER 3. Port Scanning 4. Fingerprinting 5. Vulnerability Scanning 6. Denial of Service 7. Web Application Scanning 8. Automating Kali Tools Index

Chapter 3. Port Scanning

Identifying open ports on a target system is the next step to defining the attack surface of a target. Open ports correspond to the networked services that are running on a system. Programming errors or implementation flaws can make these services vulnerable to attack and can sometimes lead to total system compromise. To determine the possible attack vectors, one must first enumerate the open ports on all of the remote systems within the project's scope. These open ports correspond to services that may be addressed with either UDP or TCP traffic. Both TCP and UDP are transport protocols. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is the more commonly used of the two and provides connection-oriented communication. User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is a nonconnection-oriented protocol that is sometimes used with services for which speed of transmission is more important than data integrity. The penetration testing technique used to enumerate these services is called...

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