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Working with Nmap Scanner
This chapter describes how to perform network scans using python-nmap as a wrapper for Nmap to gather information about a network, a host, and the services running on that host. python-nmap provides a specific module to take more control of the process of scanning a network to detect open ports and exposed services in specific machines or servers.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Introducing port scanning with Nmap
- Port scanning with
python-nmap - Synchronous and asynchronous scanning with
python-nmap - Discovering services and vulnerabilities with Nmap scripts
- Port scanning using online services
Technical requirements
To get the most out of this chapter, you will need to install a Python distribution ...
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