It is certainly well known that “hacker tools” can be used for many legitimate purposes. Nmap, the Network Mapper and security scanner is no exception. These days, it is used routinely to identify the ...

To most, the term "internet port scanning" might sound like the kind of nonsensical technobabble you would hear on an episode of "NCIS." However, port scanning is a very real and widely used method, ...

The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the government agency that leads UK's cyber security mission, is releasing NMAP Scripting Engine scripts to help defenders scan for and ...