Ping Sweeps and Port Scans Ping sweeps and ports scans are a common ways for hackers to probe a network and attempt to break into it. Although network probes are technically not intrusions themselves, they should not be taken lightly—they may lead to actual intrusions in the future. In the information that follows, I will provide a standard definition of a ping sweep and port scan, the possible uses of the two, and the prevention methods which are in place in our company to combat ping sweeps and
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Ping Sweeps & Port Scans: Potential Dangers and Defense Strategies THIS IS MY ORIGINAL WORK, PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT IT AS YOUR OWN, BUT USE IT AS A GUIDE WHILE WRITING YOUR OWN… I REQUEST YOU TO GIVE ME AN “A” RATING ON THIS PAPER; THANK YOU!!! Insert Your Name Name of University SEC 280 Week 1 Insert Tutor’s Name 1st, October, 2012 Outline 1) Introduction (pg.3) 2) Ping Sweeps & Port Scans (pg.3) a) Ping Sweeps (pg.3) b) Port Scans (pg.4) 3) Recommendations
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Ping Sweeps And Port Scans Jerry Carr Devry University Computer security is becoming more of an issue every day. People have a lot of various ways to hack into a computer network, whether it is an inside threat or outside force trying to get vital information or destroy a company network in
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Ping Sweeps and Port Scans James A. Fort SEC 280 Professor Dau July 15, 2012 Ping Sweeps and Port Scans With computer networks becoming larger hackers are looking more and more for ways to illegally gain access to our networks and procure information about our customers that they can use for their gain. Some tools that hackers are using are called ping sweeps and port scans. Now in the hands of Network Administrators these tools are not something to be afraid of, but in the hands of hackers
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Port Scans and Ping Sweeps Port scans and ping sweeps are just some of the methods used by hackers to break in and attack vulnerable systems on a targeted network. There are various levels of these probes where some are very easy to detect and stop while others can be a little more difficult to find and require special tools and knowledge. The purpose of this report is to help one gain a more clear understanding of what port scans and ping sweeps are, what they do, and whether they are something
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Understanding port scans and ping sweeps You tried to log in on your work computer only to realize that either your system doesn’t accept your passwords or some valuable files are missing on the hard drive. If you have ever been hacked, this scenario sounds familiar to you. Today, more and more businesses utilize the internet to do business. Needless to say, the computer use popularity has been steadily increasing over recent years. At the same time, the security has become one of the major concerns
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Ping Sweeps and Port Scans in Development In this paper we will be going through all the processes which will show how dealing with security. An example would be the ping sweeps and port scans recently. This will show a complete example to how certain techniques can affect our work environment. To start with, it should be known that either of these two methods could have malicious issues in order to also achieve certain goals. They can be used in order for a hacker to take advantage of
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STATEMENT Infamous computer activities, such as port scans and ping sweeps, which can lead to intrusion of systems of a company or network, which enables the intruders to gain access to the systems and do changes in the settings or extract important information. These activities can be detected and stopped or prevented using special skills tool set. INTRODUCTION One of the most common disreputable computer activities are ping sweeps and port scans. They lead to breach of systems by intruders
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Ping Sweeps and Port Scans Ashlee Jackson Devry University PING SWEEPS AND PORT SCANS Port scans are used to find which ports are open and show what may possibly be running on the target machine(s) from the ping sweep. The intruder will send specially formatted data packets to the ports to get more information, such as: operating system, running applications, etc. This still is not a direct threat, but the intruder
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my attention that you are curious about ping sweeps, and port scans. In the next couple of paragraphs I will explain what each of them are. Next, I will also tell you about the different types of port scans. Then, I will go about explaining how they can impact the company. Next, I will tell you based on the information I provided to you if it is something you should be worried about. First, what is a ping sweep? A ping sweep can also be called an ICMP Sweep. ICMP stands for Internet Control Message
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