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Day 075 #FromZeroToHacker – Nmap for beginners

Proper enumeration should be done before any exploitation attempts are made, as the more knowledge we have, the more vectors attack we may use.

We have found targets and scanned them and their ports. Now it is time for Service and OS detection, Nmap scripts and saving scan results.

We have just covered Nmap Basic Port Scans, including TCP flags and TCP 3-way handshake. Time for Nmap Advanced Port Scans 🙂

After discovering live hosts with Nmap, now is the time to go deeper by scanning their ports.

When we are about to attack a website, we want to know which systems are up and what services are running. Nmap can answer those questions.