Feds try to take logs from Nmap creator
News The creator of the famous hacking tool Nmap is being hounded by the FBI for copies of Web server log data from his Web site Insecure.org. Fyodor, as he is known, is a well known figure in the security world, specifically for his work with Nmap.
[November 26, 2004, 16:10]
EU pact criminalising security research? Pt II
News And software writers -- such as the author of nMap -- would likely be offered no legal protection. For example, a popular hacking tool called nMap connects to a remote computer and tells the user if that computer has any open ports that can be used...
[October 26, 2000, 9:01]
Hackers can launch attacks over IM
News Combining the open-source tool nmap -- a program that discovers devices on a network -- with an IM bot, hackers can infiltrate, steal information and carry out denial-of-service attacks on networks, says the director of security for Whitehat UK...
[October 11, 2004, 15:05]
Cybercrime laws 'will harm security research'
News These are tools such as nmap — a security scanner — which are primarily used by legitimate users and security researchers, but can also be used by hackers to scan networks for vulnerabilities. As well as security researchers, Linux distributions...
[November 17, 2006, 12:47]
Block OS fingerprinting on Linux/UNIX systems
White Papers One of the most popular tools for revealing the OS is Nmap. This sample hack from O'Reilly's Network Security Hacks shows how to effectively block Nmap from "fingerprinting" a Linux/UNIX system. When an attacker attempts to penetrate a targeted...
[May 16, 2006, 4:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog One is Fyodor, the singularly named author of the hacker's favourite network tool, nmap. SCO, he writes, is no longer allowed to distribute nmap with any of its software -- and all the SCO platforms are no longer supported.
[February 27, 2004, 16:05]
Nessus ceases to be open source
News The developer is the author of Nmap, a complementary network scanning tool to Nessus, and also widely used among security professionals. Perhaps so, but the Nmap project has no plans to follow suit," he wrote in an email alerting his software's...
[October 7, 2005, 10:05]
UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts
News People who distribute networking vulnerability scanning tools such as nmap or Nessus could also be caught up in part (b), Clayton warned. Why should the only place to fetch Perl and nmap be from hacker sites in Eastern Europe, where the risk is...
[May 19, 2006, 14:15]
UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts
Talkback I contacted my MP, Meg Munn over this about 4 months ago when it was first announced, I was promised that the law would be written in such a way as to safeguard legitimate uses of software such as NMAP.
[May 22, 2006, 11:13]
A Method of Identify OS Based on TCP/IP Fingerprint
White Papers Result from experimental appears that this method can identify the OS effectively, the action of is more secretly than other systems such as nmap and xprobe. This paper present a method that classify the fingerprint of protocol, use the frame to...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It’s true that Netstumbler and Nmap will get you a long way towards extradition to the US in minutes, if you’re curious, although if you’re slightly careful over MAC addresses you’re untraceable. Friday 10/06/2005
[June 10, 2005, 18:55]
Hackers can launch attacks over IM
Talkback If instructed, the nmap bot is capable of a DoS attack by sending a massive amount of pings, a term hackers have dubbed 'the ping of death'. "IM runs over port 80, which is often regarded as a trusted port because Internet traffic travels through it.
[November 26, 2004, 18:19]
UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts
Talkback I have never attempted to access a network i don't already have permission for, yet my machine is full of tools such as Cain and Abel (which in itself proves the point), nmap, ethereal and so on. The cynic in me notes that software deemed as...
[May 23, 2006, 10:39]
hacking by lezlow
Talkback i read alot of these so called hacking stories and as a hacker from the hackersclub i,m apalled that cyber police and joe public , keep calling these thieves hackers their not hackers, there theives , i can tell you that the majority of hackers...
[November 12, 2009, 15:54]
IM photos could turn nasty
News Last week, Hart warned that hackers could also use an nmap bot over IM to carry out denial-of-service attacks on companies. Security experts are warning users that hackers can use JPEG profile photos on instant messenger to attack networks.
[October 19, 2004, 16:10]
MacAnalysis X
Downloads Nmap frontend: It uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services they are offering, what operating system (and OS version) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use...
[November 7, 2003, 7:00]
Get back to security basics
News Our initial step for both organisations was to scan the mail servers using Nmap and SuperScan. Small companies and small divisions of larger organisations often try to provide complete business functionality -- e-mail, Web presence, domain-based...
[November 17, 2002, 20:41]
JavaScript attack maps secure networks
News While malicious JavaScript has been possible for a long time, security researchers have not focused much on it, said Fyodor Vaskovich, creator of the popular Nmap network port scanning tool. Security researchers have found a way to use JavaScript...
[July 31, 2006, 9:00]
