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Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

You're reading from   Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook Network discovery and security scanning at your fingertips

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786467454
Length 416 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Paulino Calderon Paulino Calderon
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

Introduction

HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is arguably one of the most popular protocols in use today. Web servers have moved from serving static pages to handling complex web applications with user interaction.

This has opened the doors to tainted user input that could change an application's logic to perform unintended actions. Modern web development frameworks allow almost anyone with some knowledge of programming to produce web applications within minutes, but this has also caused an increase of vulnerable applications on the Internet. The number of available HTTP scripts for the Nmap Scripting Engine grew rapidly, and Nmap turned into an invaluable web scanner that helps penetration testers perform a lot of the tedious manual checks in an automated manner. Not only can it be used to find vulnerable web applications or detect faulty configuration settings, but thanks to the new spidering library, Nmap...

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