Tag Archives: nmap

Security Testing WordPress

July 19, 2011 • Categories: Tools • by

A couple of wordpress security assessment tools have popped up over the past couple of months, this has to be a good thing with the number of WordPress installations sky-rocketing. First of course there is the HackerTarget.com scan, externally facing and coming in at a fairly high level. The system downloads some of your pages, [...]

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BackTrack used by the NSA

June 9, 2010 • Categories: Tools • by

As highlighted over on the backtrack site. It appears the NSA are one of the users of the excellent security testing Linux Distribution that is Back Track. That is almost as cool as Nmap being used in the Matrix. The National Security Agency and the Central Security Service tested the five U.S. service academies during [...]

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Metasploit vs Snort as Snorby

June 2, 2010 • Categories: Tools • by

Recently I stumbled acorss Snorby, an excellent easy to use implementation of Snort. It is a new web interface for Snort that is very pretty, but also simple. An excellent introduction to Intrusion Detection Systems, that is not going to scare anyone away. Now how to I get hold of this I hear you cry…. [...]

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Nmap 5.21 released and rolled out

January 27, 2010 • Categories: Site Updates, Tools • by

A new year, and new updates. We have rolled out the latest version of Nmap to all our scan servers. Happy scanning in 2010. Latest version includes performance improvements, new OS finger printing and a new traceroute engine.

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Nmap Cheatsheet – a quick reference guide

August 28, 2009 • Categories: Tools • by

Nmap has a multitude of options and when you first start playing with this excellent tool it can be a bit daunting. So here is a quick start guide. Start by heading over to the download page, here you can get the latest release (5.00) of the Linux version or the nmap windows version. Install [...]

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