This assignment’s subject is about footprinting, scanning and enumeration
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Scanning Help from http://www.sys-security.com/ http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~ghansahi/classes/notes/196n_at_def_notes/lectures/wk02.ppt http://www.informit.com/index.asp http://www.dirc.org.uk/publications/techreports/papers/5.pdf. http://www.auditmypc.com/freescan/readingroom/port_scanning.asp http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/networksa/chapter/ch04.pdf. (A) Introduction: In today's internet world there are a lot of scanners has been introduced and it is constantly increasing and as a result the danger of attacks by hackers are increasing day by day. So in order to protect ourselves from these attacks we should have the knowledge of the scanning tools and also the ways that these tools are using against us. Definition: "The art of detecting which systems are alive and reachable via the Internet, and What services they offer, using techniques such as ping sweeps, port scans, and operating system identification, is called scanning." Scanning can be considered as an equivalent to knocking on the walls to find all the doors and windows. Scope of scanning: * TCP/UDP services running on each system identified. * System architecture (Sparc, Alpha, x86). * Specific IP addresses of systems reachable via the Internet. * Operating system type. (B) Determining either the...

