HACKING: THE BLUEPRINT A Beginners Guide To Ethical Computer Hacking (CyberPunk Blueprint Series) by CyberPunk Architects

Author:CyberPunk Architects [Architects, CyberPunk]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cyperpunk Books
Published: 2017-04-16T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4: How To Setup NMAP

We are already halfway; now you are familiar with the basics when it comes to the hacking. We already discussed Linux Terminal and tips and precautions for you to stay completely anonymous[206][207][208] and protect your identity while hacking. The next thing of great importance is setting up NMAP which stand for network mapper. Network Mapper is the type of security scanner which is used in order to discover any hosts and service on the devices. A computer network is filled with anonymous hosts and services, [209][210][211]and NMAP is tracking and discovering them and putting them together by building the certain map of network. Hence the name network mapper. In order to do this network mapper is sending special packets to the different hosts which are targets in this case and then NMAP analyzes the responses from the hosts.

Network mapping software provides many great utilities such as host discovery, operating system detection, and vulnerability detection. [212]These are all great features for probing computer network. Besides these basic features, NMAP provides many other advanced features. [213]Network mapper tool is constantly being developed and refined by the computer science community. Firstly it started as Linux utility, but later expanding to the other platforms such as Solaris, Windows, and IRIX. [214]Among the IT community, NMAP utility for Linux is the most popular today and closely followed by operating system Windows.[215]

There is no surprise that network mapper is great tool when it comes to the hacking. You should keep in mind that computer network is filled with the great number of hosts and services and network mapping is a great way to discover them all. [216]Some of the features that network mapper provides are port scanning, determining operating system, scriptable interaction with the hosts and detection of the version meaning interrogating network services. Network mapper is used when it comes to the generating traffic to the target, finding any vulnerabilities, auditing security of your computer and analyzing open ports and preparing for auditing.

Now we should see how to setup network mapper scanning. It may sound terrifying, but it is quite easy to do, and often NMAP can be installed just by doing one command. [217]As I said, NMAP [218]c[219]ould work on many different platforms [220]provided with both source code compilation and installation methods.

➢ The first logical step for you is to check if you already have network mapper installed. Many platforms already have NMAP tool installed such as Linux and BSD. To find out if you already have NMAP, you should open terminal window and execute command NMAP, and if NMAP [221][222]already exists, you will see that in the output. On the other hand, if you [223]don't have NMAP installed you will see error message. In any case, you should consider having the latest version of ne[224]twork mapper and upgrading it.

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