Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine
| By: | Paulino Calderon |
| Publisher: | Packt Publishing |
| Print ISBN: | 9781782168317 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781782168324 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2015 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Book Description
If you want to learn to write your own scripts for the Nmap Scripting Engine, this is the book for you. It is perfect for network administrators, information security professionals, and even Internet enthusiasts who are familiar with Nmap.What you will learn
- Get to grips with the fundamentals of Lua, the programming language used by the Nmap Scripting Engine
- Extend the capabilities of Nmap by writing your own NSE scripts
- Explore the Nmap Scripting Engine API
- Discover all the available NSE libraries
- Write robust brute force password auditing scripts
- Customize the databases distributed with Nmap
- Produce flexible script reports in NSE
- Optimize Nmap scans with script and library arguments
- Enhance the version detection capabilities of Nmap