Introduction
The web browser attacks of Chapter 2 require the victim to visit a web site controlled by the attacker. In more realistic scenarios, the attacker needs to know some details of the target network before being able to launch attacks that have a reasonable chance of success.
This chapter introduces NMap, the premier tool for host detection and network scanning. When a scan is launched, NMap sends packets to one or more targets and awaits the response. This allows NMap to determine if the target systems are responsive to network traffic, and on which ports. By examining the traffic characteristics ...
