Probing

-Pn Skip discovery phase (treat all hosts as online)

Scanning

-sS SYN scan

-sTfull TCP scan

-sV version scan

Scripting

--script-help [default] print script’s info

--script run script

Arbitrary TCP and UDP connections and listens

Scan for listening daemon, without sending data

BSD
> nc -z example.com 20-30GNU
> nc -zv example.com 20-30

Client/Server

BSD
> nc -l 1234                                                # server> nc example.com 1234                                       # client> nc -l 1234 > out.txt                                      # server> nc example.com 1234 < in.txt                              # clientGNU
> nc -lp 1234

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As I’m spinning up new machines and VMs, and at the recommendation of BHIS, I looking at the CIS Benchmarks.

Checkout my ongoing Ansible implementation:

Got a used Dell PowerEdge R900 for $300. This beast comes with:

• 4 Intel Xeon E7440 Quad Core 2.40Ghz with Intel virtualisation technology (VT-x)
• 64Go RAM
• 4 150Go 15K SAS hard drives

That makes it a good enough platform to build a virtual lab.

For the little story, R900 actually means something:

• R means Rack-mountable server
• 9 means 4 processors
• 0 means 10th generation
• 0 menas Intel CPUs

Cheap and powerful, but big and heavy, not your average tower.

Freaking loud fans

OSI Layer 1&2: Ethernet

Ethernet, with Wireless LAN, is part of the IEEE 802 family of standards.
The services and protocol specified in IEEE 802 map the physical layer and data link layer of the OSI model.

Ethernet is a family of networking technologies used for wired LAN and WAN networks.

An Ethernet packet (Layer 1) contains a Ethernet frame (Layer 2). An Ethernet frame is made of a MAC destination, a MAC source, a payload and a CRC error detecting code.

Ethernet was created for devices to communicate over a shared cable (think collision-prone radio systems). Since the communication happens on a same…