This month marks the 20th anniversary of Nmap, the open-source network mapping tool that became the standard used by many IT professionals, but that can be a bit much if you only need to do general ...

MiTeC Network Scanner is a free multi-threaded ICMP, Port, IP, NetBIOS, ActiveDirectory and SNMP scanner with advanced features. The program performs ping sweep, scans for opened TCP and UDP ports, ...

Netstat, the TCP/IP networking utility, has a simple set of options and identifies a computer’s listening ports, along with incoming and outgoing network connections. This data can be very helpful if ...

Last month we began exploring the dangerous and fun world of scanning, focusing on the powerful port scanner Nmap. Nmap helps system administrators and security auditors (and yes, prospective crackers ...