Port Scanning Techniques and the Defense Against Them

Port Scanning is one of the most popular techniques attackers use to discover services that they can exploit to break into systems. All systems that are connected to a LAN or the Internet via a modem run services that listen to well-known and not so well-known ports. By port scanning, the attacker...

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Roger Christopher

October 5, 2001

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