Install nmap if you don't already have it on your Linux computer. Run "sudo apt-get install nmap" on Ubuntu, or "sudo dnf install nmap" on Fedora. To do a quick scan of your network and discover the ...

If you’re considering adding Linux to your data center, or your company is looking at promoting you to become their first (or next) Linux admin, you probably understand there are lots of commands to ...

You may have heard horror stories about how easy it is for evil system crackers to probe potential victims' systems for vulnerabilities using software tools readily available on the Internet. The bad ...

Another good nmap flag for beginners is –v which gives additional, verbose, output. With this set nmap will provide extra text explaining its actions and results. Flags can be combined to perform more ...

I recently was exchanging e-mail with someone who regularly needs to port scan his own network for vulnerability trending. The port scanning tool of choice for this task is Nmap, but managing the data ...