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What this book covers

Chapter 1, Nmap Fundamentals, covers the most common tasks performed with Nmap. In addition, it introduces Rainmap Lite, Ndiff, Nping, Ncrack, Ncat, and Zenmap.

Chapter 2, Network Exploration, covers host discovery techniques supported by Nmap and other useful tricks with the Nmap Scripting Engine.

Chapter 3, Reconnaissance Tasks, covers interesting information-gathering tasks with Nmap and the Nmap Scripting Engine.

Chapter 4, Scanning Web Servers, covers tasks related to web servers and web application security auditing.

Chapter 5, Scanning Databases, covers security auditing tasks for MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, and NoSQL databases.

Chapter 6, Scanning Mail Servers, covers different tasks for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP servers. ...

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