Haxors among us?

[DaveB]

Thanks for that info. I am struggling taking in the knowledge.
Nmap is not used to identify what hosts are available on a
network. It is used to identify what ports are open, filtered or closed on a box.

Never said I used Nmap to hack a box. I said I have hacked boxs while using nmap. The admin pass crunch was mostly social engineering.

You sir are a quick learner who does not check what he picks up from others to be true before he talks, or just a noob who mascarades as someone with a bit of networking knowledge. Take your pick.

From the Nmap web site, and I quote:

... Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics.

I'll leave it to you to work out the connection between ports and services. I'm sure you can manage it, being such an expert haxor and all.

[TheMonkey]

Let's clear this up for the piss-takers and get nmap's reputation back (as I believe it is a useful legitimate tool).

Nmap is a useful tool for finding out if your firewall configuration worked as expected. It is also great for scanning subnets to find out which hosts are online (and which staff are late!). It is also good as an audit and statistics tool as you can find out what operating system is running on an IP address.

None of that makes it a hacker tool - it's who is using it that makes it a hacker tool. In a script-kiddies hands it's a hacker tool as demonstrated below:

<k1dd13> w00t muv, i g0t sub7 0n da 56.42.122.232! Nmap t0ld m3 s0.
<|V|upp37> Rar l3ts haX0r i7
<k1dd13> Y0ur Mum
<|V|upp37> f@g

[DaveB]

Nmap is an excellent tool and has been since day 1.

I've used it for years for everything from tracking down suspected trojans to keeping tabs on what the students were getting up to on the campus networks at the university I worked for a few years back.

Combine it with a few other tools like snort, tcpdump and ethereal and network admin and security gets a whole lot eaier

[Churchill]

Ethereal Rox!

Erm, is that the correct terminology?

Better on a linux box than windoze.

[NickIT]

All good tools!

I quite like Solar Winds in there as well.

[Helios]

All good tools!

I quite like Solar Winds in there as well.

I also like solar winds whatever software that is.

Nmap rocks. For Sys Admins and Haxors alike. Lets all live in peace lol.

[accesstowork]

Fogu. Dimitri using an open proxy in china. hush hush naughty person.

We former KGB keep records on our monitors. I have a record of english queing outside a russian mcdonalds and russians queing outside an english post office. What do the Poles do? They queue (im dislecsict hence spelling) outside the UPS office saying they drive handing over their cv for it to go in the bin. Interview peeps?

Then one sparkie realises that monitors don't hold records so unless DVLA have Acer Ferrarri laptops, screw paying car tax.

I have seven pairs of socks 5 that I wear in the winter for carding, 15 pairs of socks 4 that I wear in the summer for mp3 and cracks and over a thousand http proxies that I use for wearing armani sandals and surfing the net. lol

[bogeyman]

Fogu. Dimitri using an open proxy in china. hush hush naughty person.

We former KGB keep records on our monitors. I have a record of english queing outside a russian mcdonalds and russians queing outside an english post office. What do the Poles do? They queue (im dislecsict hence spelling) outside the UPS office saying they drive handing over their cv for it to go in the bin. Interview peeps?

Then one sparkie realises that monitors don't hold records so unless DVLA have Acer Ferrarri laptops, screw paying car tax.

I have seven pairs of socks 5 that I wear in the winter for carding, 15 pairs of socks 4 that I wear in the summer for mp3 and cracks and over a thousand http proxies that I use for wearing armani sandals and surfing the net. lol

Hey! You're my kind of guy!

[kramer]

are you a chat bot or just mad?

[wobbegong]

Fogu. Dimitri using an open proxy in china. hush hush naughty person.

We former KGB keep records on our monitors. I have a record of english queing outside a russian mcdonalds and russians queing outside an english post office. What do the Poles do? They queue (im dislecsict hence spelling) outside the UPS office saying they drive handing over their cv for it to go in the bin. Interview peeps?

Then one sparkie realises that monitors don't hold records so unless DVLA have Acer Ferrarri laptops, screw paying car tax.

I have seven pairs of socks 5 that I wear in the winter for carding, 15 pairs of socks 4 that I wear in the summer for mp3 and cracks and over a thousand http proxies that I use for wearing armani sandals and surfing the net. lol

OK, does anyone understand any of this?