Re:What is NMAP and how to use it?
by tptacek on Friday April 14, 2023 @02:43PM
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Yes. People have alerts set up on portscanning, both inbound (to detect recon attempts) and outbound (to detect compromised/abusive internal hosts). There are lots of legitimate reasons to do large-scale network surveys, but you have to be careful about them, because they are also strong abuse signals --- meaning: when providers go after people who are port scanning, more often than not it turns out that the port scanning source was in fact clearly abusive.
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