nmap cheatsheet

Pen testers and security enthusiasts can save time by using nmap to quickly scan any network, determine security vulnerabilities and more. Let us see some useful nmap commands.

nmap Port States Terminologies

Before starting with nmap, you need to know some terminologies related to the scan results:

Open: This indicates that an application is listening for connections on this port.
Closed: Response was received but there is no application listening on this port.
Filtered: Response was not received and …

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