Monday, January 26, 2004

Types of port scans

While digging for data for this semester's paper, I found "Examining Port Scan Methods - Analysing Audible Techniques". While it's not entirely accurate (never say that something is impossible when discussing network security!), it does give a somewhat comprehensive listing of the types of network scan techniques in use today. As there's a good chance that the author is an Italian hacker, I think the intent was to use "available" vice "audible" throughout the document.

Oh, and please don't confuse scan technique with scan type. "Detection and Characterization of Port Scan Attacks" is a paper which describes the different types of scans (vertical, horizontal, block). It's a short paper but does present a decent syntax for describing the type of scan.

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