Port Scanning

Submitted by Srikanth on Friday, 7 November 200828 Comments

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Port Scanning is one of the most popular techniques used by hackers to discover services that can be compromised.

A potential target computer runs many ’services’ that listen at ‘well-known’ ‘ports’.
By scanning which ports are available on the victim, the hacker finds potential vulnerabilities that can be exploited.
Scan techniques can be differentiated broadly into Vanilla, Strobe, Stealth, FTP Bounce, Fragmented Packets, Sweep and UDP Scans.

Port Scanning Techniques

Port Scanning Techniques can be broadly classified into:

Open scan
Half- open scan
Stealth scan
Sweeps
Misc

Commonly used tools for port scanning

1.Tool: SuperScan 3.0

2. Tool: NMap (Network Mapper)

3. Tool: NetScan Tools Pro 2003

4. Tool: ipEye, IPSecScan

Popularity: 40% [?]

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28 Comments »

Anonymous said:

Your “Nmap” screenshot is really NetScanTools Pro instead.

- 7 November 2008 at 9:29 pm

Srikanth (author) said:

Oh thanks bro,it all happened in a hurry.It is now corrected..

- 8 November 2008 at 12:58 pm

Uthman said:

Srikanth is there any way to hack a website and the Internet service providing compney’s Sever.
if yes then how??????
Thanks

- 12 November 2008 at 7:47 am

Anonymous said:

Can you tell me how to hack website

- 16 November 2008 at 9:34 am

Anonymous said:

can u give me step by step procedure to acces a server through internet. i know the ip address of that i.e 10.42.2.20

i want to access the server and make some changes on the website. how to do it???

- 17 November 2008 at 12:14 pm

HACKING said:

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- 28 November 2008 at 2:56 pm

Sonia said:

Hi
i want to know that u scaned the port with Thrid party softwares so if some one want to scan the port with Internal Dos commands. What are those ones!!!!!!!!!

Thankx in advance!!!!!!
Sonia!!!!!

- 25 December 2008 at 5:55 pm

Srikanth (author) said:

@ Sonia

There is no in built DOS/Windows tool/command for Port Scanning

- 25 December 2008 at 9:03 pm

funnyguy said:

b y using nmap we can find the other yahoo password.is it possible.i want to know password for this id chappu30@yahoo.com can u tel m e pls help me

- 28 December 2008 at 12:13 am

h47ch1 said:

Hey i got a probim using iptools but i cant get ay info from NB scanner. My operatig system is vista,and i gues ip tools dont work with it. could u give me addvice for some same proggram but working in vista. thnx keep the gr8 work

- 31 December 2008 at 1:39 am

Srikanth (author) said:

@ h47ch1

IP tools works fine even in Vista (I have tested it)

Try downloading the latest version

- 31 December 2008 at 12:28 pm

Slim0123 said:

One more tool you can use is “Angry IP Scan” which does the job in a much quicker way(when configured correctly) and allows direct options for the resultant ips

- 31 December 2008 at 1:40 pm

eminem said:

oh guys i need some help with can anyone help me thats mi email habibft@hotmail.com

- 1 January 2009 at 12:30 pm

shank said:

how can we view others g-talk conversations

- 11 January 2009 at 9:21 am

Srikanth (author) said:

@ shank

No it is not possible…

- 11 January 2009 at 12:04 pm

Girish said:

hi shrikant,
is there any way to hack a person’s computer while we r chatting on yahoo… give me full description to me plz… it’s very important to me….

- 16 January 2009 at 9:02 pm

MICHO said:

i have superscan 4.0 but don;t know how to use it !!
PLZ help me

- 25 January 2009 at 9:50 pm

MICHO said:

sorry my mail is michoshow_92@hotmail.com
plz help me

- 25 January 2009 at 9:51 pm

King said:

hello brother…….u are doing a really a great job…..well done .

can u help me in hacking computer from internet…?

how to control other computers? without networking

thanks bro

- 20 February 2009 at 12:26 pm

Srikanth (author) said:

@ King

You have to use Remote administration tools/ Monitoring softwares..

- 20 February 2009 at 7:03 pm

MEHRAN said:

hi do u hacking problams i will help u

- 3 March 2009 at 12:46 pm

Gaurav said:

Hi Srikanth,
Nice one man.

Is it possible to hack Any particular server of LAN ? If yes, then please guide me for same..

Thanks,

Regards,
Gaurav

- 18 March 2009 at 9:40 pm

Raj Kumar Singh said:

Hi Srikanth

Can u suggest some remote administration tools that realy work if possible pls suggest free tolls.

- 24 April 2009 at 4:31 pm

Legion said:

Shrikanth,

I need a fav. I’m tring to figure out how to find out someones IP address( or actaully how to find a certian persons IP address out of a whole group of people thts in a yahoo pool room lobby ). Could you please help me!!! If you are able to help could you also e-mail me the response it would be much appreciated, thx. Hope you are able to help. thx much Legion

- 5 May 2009 at 4:41 pm

Srikanth (author) said:

@ Legion

I will come up with a new post on this topic.

- 6 May 2009 at 11:22 am

legion said:

Sirkanth,

Hey thx for helping could you pls let me know when u have done the new post on the question i asked. Thx much I’ll be in from time to time to check. thx