Category: Recon

• 15th Oct 2023

  Back 2 Basics: /dev/tcp

  Yesterday, on October 14th, 2023. I was a visiting speaker at a college. In post discussions with a lot of students, I asked something very interesting which came to my mind at that moment. What if you didn’t have nmap, ncat, netcat, telnet in a machine; how would you enumerate a port looking for lateral…
• 11th Mar 2019

  Breaking Down Nmap – Part 3

  Welcome to the third & final installation of the series Breaking Down Nmap. In this post, we’re going to talk about basics of Timing & Performance as well as Firewall / IDS Evasion. Note: Some of the options are going to be left unexplained, take this opportunity to experiment with it 😀 –data, –data-string, –data-length, –proxies, –ip-options,…
• 3rd Mar 2019

  Breaking Down Nmap – Part 2

  Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed the first part. This is going to be a continuation to the series and in this post we’ll be covering some port scanning basics & techniques. SPOILER ALERT: ITS GONNA BE A LENGTHY ONE. Port Scanning 101 Nmap has grown in its functionality over the years, however at its core; it…
• 19th Feb 2019

  Breaking Down Nmap – Part 1

  Introduction Network Mapper or Nmap for short, is a network reconnaissance tool developed by Fyodor in the late 90s, and it is till date, one of the most preferred and popular network mapper today. It is actively maintained & developed and started shipping with a GUI based scanner some time ago. Scanning with Nmap We’ll cover Nmap…