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How to “close” open ports?

A few days ago I started to care a lot about my data security, I end up nmaping myself with: nmap 127.0.0.1 Surprise, surprise, I have lots of active services listen to localhost: $ nmap 127.0.0.1 ...
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Why Nmap fragmented scan on Linux is only working from virtual environment?

OLD QUESTION AND TITLE (Look further down for the updated question): Why Nmap fragmented scan is only working on Backtrack? I spent quite a few hours today trying to capture and study some ...
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Running a local port scan and found open ports but, don't know what they're used for?

I wrote a very basic python script to port scan my system. I'm running linux-mint lisa: open_ports = [] for port in xrange(65536): conn = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) ...
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Run nmap via Tor

Is it possible to runnmap via Tor? When I googled around, I got the impression that Tor uses Polipo / Privoxy, which are socks5 proxies. So any TCP / UDP aware applications should be able to use them ...
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Using nmap's sql-injection script to scan a specific web folder

I'm fairly new to linux and nmap. I'm using debian squeeze. I tried installing an SQL-injection script for nmap. I was able to successfully run a test scan agains my web server running Windows. ...
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Grepping several lines from Nmap output

I apologize in advance as this is a simple question. So I'm attempting to scan a Class C to identify all mail servers by IP. The vast majority of IPs aren't mail servers. I'm trying to filter out the ...
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nmap isn't showing sshd?

I want to open a ssh terminal but it gives me a connection refused on port 22. My nmap doesn't list a port 22? How can I connect to my server? PORT STATE SERVICE 21/tcp open ftp ...
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How to skip (omit) a sepcific port in nmap

With nmap, I want to skip the scan on port 80. I'm sure this is in the man somewhere, but I haven't found it so far. My command is simple: nmap 24.0.0.1\24 So this will scan ports in the 24.0.0.x ...
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Fastest way to port scan. NMAP?

I am looking for a quick way to scan for commonly open ports on proxies. I am doing this through php and I have been using nmap and came up with this command: <?php system("nmap -PN -p ...
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nmap script needed to output text into csv format

ultimately I am looking to insert some info into a database. So I'm trying to output a file from something (probably nmap) that is formatted like this: 10.1.150.1,Up,1/3/2012,host.domain.lan ...
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Questions about nmap

I have several questions about nmap. First, nmap can detect servers via: link-layer network-layer transport-layer What are the differences (not in the layer, but in the way that nmap does it) and ...
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NMAP probing VirtualBox Client

Cannot seem to probe virtual guests from the virtual host. These guests can be probed from other devices on the same LAN/Network, but not the host. I can understand why it might be struggling, but I ...
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Doing nmap on a network

I used nmap to scan all the ports in the hosts in a network by using the command: $ nmap 172.31.100.0/24 What I found is that it showed the following in the result: Nmap scan report for ...
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How to remotely detect another machine's utorrent version with nmap?

How can I use nmap to find out the utorrent version installed on a PC by scanning it from another PC on the same subnet?
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How to generate random IP addresses

$ nmap -n -iR 0 -sL > RANDOM-IPS-TMP.txt $ grep -o "[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*" RANDOM-IPS-TMP.txt | egrep -v "10.*|172.[16-32].*|192.168.*|[224-255].*" > RANDOM-IPS.txt egrep: Invalid ...
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How to get info about given webserver FAST?

$ time nmap -q -sV -P0 -p80 google.com | fgrep '80/tcp open' 80/tcp open http Google httpd 2.0 (GFE) real 0m6.563s user 0m0.280s sys 0m0.016s $ Are there any faster methods to get info ...