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CrackerCast Episode 21 – Scanning

5 August 2010 1 views 13 Comments

This Episode of CrackerCast looks at this weeks hacker news and breaks down the second phase of the hacking process, scanning.

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News stories mentioned:

Cyberwarrior Shortage Threatens U.S. Security

Hacker Proves Facebook’s Public Data Is Public

Security researcher demonstrates ATM hacking

Defcon hackers release Android rootkit, total control of smartphone possible

Hacker Snoops on GSM Cell Phones in Demo

JailbreakMe: Apple iPhone 4 hack released

Hacker Website of the Week:

SecurityTube

Websites Mentioned:

Nmap.org

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Zain said:

I am new to networking and used to nmap to scan port. But i got and error saying

NSE: Loaded 30 scripts for scanning.

Initiating Ping Scan at 23:18

dnet: Failed to open device eth11

QUITTING!

I am using a dongle . Is there something like dongles cant listen to ports? this doubt just hit me .

Thank you people.

# 5 August 2010 at 5:50 pm

David (author) said:

@Zain, what OS are you running it in?

# 6 August 2010 at 11:37 pm

Winston said:

Welcome back David, I hoped you enjoy your break ^_^

# 8 August 2010 at 11:57 am

David (author) said:

Thanks , I did.

# 8 August 2010 at 9:08 pm

Satyajit(a.k.a-satosys) said:

nmap is a cool tool…a must have one in the kit…
Thanks for sharing…

# 12 August 2010 at 10:41 am

dima said:

David were are you from? Russia,Ukraine? )

# 17 August 2010 at 12:00 pm

David (author) said:

I’m Ukrainian . You have a name from those parts too I see.

# 17 August 2010 at 3:01 pm

dima said:

yeah , russia

# 17 August 2010 at 3:20 pm

Zain said:

@David I am so sorry david for late reply.

I am running vista home premium 32bit.

Hey david now i am reading chapter 7 netbios, i used angry IP scanner to scan and i liked that application alot . But when i run nbtstat on the target machine i get host not found, even when i try it on my on machine when printer sharing is on and firewall and virus guard is off.

Sorry for putting some questions not related to the above topic, do you have any other forum or something where i can ask my silly questions . I have chosen you has my master so so i will be asking many questions , so plz help this script kiddy .

# 23 August 2010 at 5:45 pm

David (author) said:

@Zain, read the responses to this persons problem, http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q2/828, you might have the same solution.

So you are trying to use the netbios command on your own computer thats on your network? are you using the main ip or the router assigned ips?

# 28 August 2010 at 10:12 pm

Zain said:

thankx for the response david, my netbios problem was solved i did some silly mistakes. But the still got problem with the nmap, my before problem of getting this error :-

NSE: Loaded 30 scripts for scanning.
Initiating Ping Scan at 23:18
dnet: Failed to open device eth11
QUITTING!

is over, like said in that forum i ran the program as administrator. But now i get this error :-

WARNING: Using raw sockets because ppp2 is not an ethernet device. This probably won’t work on Windows.
pcap_open_live(ppp2, 100, 0, 2) FAILED.

Thankx once again david for taking your time to reply, i ma trying to find a solution i will let you know, but if you can plz help.

# 30 August 2010 at 8:29 pm

Zain said:

Got the answer from this place http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q3/739

# 30 August 2010 at 8:39 pm

David (author) said:

@Zain, ah ok, great .

# 31 August 2010 at 8:39 pm