NetScanTools in Hacking for Dummies 4th Edition

Kevin Beaver wrote Hacking for Dummies and he has just completed the 4th edition. It's a well written comprehensive book on Ethical Hacking. He talks about hacking network hosts, operating systems, applications (communications, databases and websites), password cracking all from the perspective of a security consultant with permission to find the weaknesses in the targets. This can help you understand the dangers your computers or your business systems face from malicious hackers.

NetScanTools Pro is one of the tools he uses to demonstrate how you can assess vulnerabilities. While NetScanTools Pro is not designed as a hacking tool, it does have some tools that you can use to test for vulnerabilities.

Examples used in the book from NetScanTools Pro:

Using Ping Scanner to ping multiple IP addresses to find out what hosts are accessible.
Finding open ports with Port Scanner like the port 53 DNS, NetBIOS port 139, and SQL Server port 1434.
Scanning SNMP or dumping whole system's MIB trees using our SNMP tools.
Using the UDP Packet Flooder as a DoS testing tool.
Windows share enumeration using our Network Shares - SMB tool.
SMTP Relay Testing.

Get the book at dummies.com. ISBN 978-1-118-38093-2

Kevin Beaver Review of NetScanTools Pro v11

Kevin Beaver, the author of Hacking for Dummies , did a nice review of NetScanTools Pro v11 today. It's here on his blog:

http://securityonwheels.blogspot.com/2011/05/if-you-dont-have-netscantools-pro-v11.html

Thanks Kevin! You can follow Kevin on twitter@kevinbeaver

NetScanTools LE Reviewed Aug 31, 2010

Kevin Beaver of 'Hacking for Dummies' and other 'for Dummies' books fame wrote an excellent review of NetScanTools LE on August 31. Please check it out here on his blog:

http://securityonwheels.blogspot.com/2010/08/netscan-tools-le-must-have-for.html

Thanks Kevin!