CyberWire Daily - NMAP (noun) [Word Notes]

Episode Date: August 11, 2020

A network mapping tool that pings IP addresses looking for a response and can discover host names, open communications ports, operating system names and versions. Written and maintained by Gordon Lyon, a.k.a. Fyodor, it is a free and open source software application used by both system admins and hackers alike and has been a staple in the security community for well over two decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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listening on the city's electrical grid network. Origin and history. city's electrical grid network. Origin and History. Written and maintained by Gordon Lyon, aka Theodore, Nmap is a free and open-source software application used by both system admins and hackers alike and has been a staple in the security community for well over two decades. In the Matrix Reloaded movie that debuted in 2003, Trinity, played by Carrie Ann Moss, needed to hack the city power grid. She runs Nmap version 2.54 beta 2.5, searching for a vulnerable host on the target network. Nmap discovers an unpatched Secure So socket shell server, or SSH server. Trinity then compromised that server by running a real-world piece of exploit code that was invented in 2001 against it.

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