NMAP basics Tutorial

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Ivan Vanney
Aug 30, 2019

Regular Nmap scans are carried out through TCP and SYN scan. When the scan process is TCP a connection is established with the target. With a SYN scan, the connection is cancelled or dropped before getting established.

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