September 18, 2021 @ 12:00 am, by raindog308Recently I was doing some discovery at work of some systems we inherited. I didn’t yet have access but wanted to determine what type of OS was involved so I could coordinate with the proper teams. You can often guess just by determining what ports are open, but the most efficient tool is the venerable […]
Improved Server Security By Closing Ports With nmap Monitoring
A cardinal rule of security is to avoid running services you don’t need. A logical extension of that rule is to not expose ports to the public Internet unnecessarily. You may have a very good reason to run MySQL, however you may not need to expose MySQL to the public Internet. If you have a […]
