WARNING: Don't try anything you read here outside of your local network. Scanning and exploring distant ports or other people's networks is legally questionable, and could land you in very hot water.

My home and home lab network are a mess. Over the years, connecting my lab's physical and virtual machines (VMs), SAN, NAS, and other projects using various network switches, and routers have become a ...

As any network and security manager knows, new vulnerabilities are constantly being discovered and threats against corporate networks are getting increasingly sophisticated. Proactively scanning for ...

A really simple fix for the Windows Defender alert that states items were skipped during a scan has been discovered and it involves just enabling network scanning. Over the weekend, we reported that ...

Two weeks ago in part 2 of the indispensables series I made mention of a network scanning app called iNet Network Scanner. I’ve used this app on my Mac for years and love it, but it also comes in two ...

Nmap is a free network scanning software available for Windows, Linux, macOS, etc. This open-source freeware can be used to check ping status, scan the entire network, check the uptime of any host, ...

By 2026, vulnerability scanning will no longer be about running a weekly scan and exporting a PDF. Modern environments are ...

Even with excellent policies in place, a corporate network of mixed OSs and platforms can be littered with vulnerabilities. How can administrators possibly track and patch all the open doors to keep ...