Most people might figure that once you set up your network security-wise, what's done is done, and besides routine updates, ...

(1) Using software to identify all clients and servers on a network. Network scanning is performed by administrators as well as hackers seeking to compromise the network. See ping, port scanning and ...

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 ...

Theoretically, scanning a network should be benign. Probing workstations and servers shouldn’t interrupt the normal functionality of those systems. In practice, however, this may not be the case. Many ...

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 ...

Threat actors are using Domain Name System (DNS) tunneling to track when their targets open phishing emails and click on malicious links, and to scan networks for potential vulnerabilities. DNS ...

We start this week with a real geek out: If you have ever had to weigh the benefits and tradeoffs of Apache as an application server (for example, using Tomcat vs. node.js (“a platform built on Chrome ...

Eight network scanning tools offer beefed-up management and remediation. A vulnerability rated as a low risk this morning could turn into your worst nightmare tonight. To meet the ever-increasing ...

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 ...