Archive for January, 2008

Avoid Detection with nmap Port Scan Decoys

You can test your IDS or IPS devices to monitor your scan traffic. Use this feature to avoid detection with nmap. You may not want to get caught performing a network scan. For example, using following technique you can test your own IDS / IPS / network security from remote location or home.

Sending files as mail attachments

This article shows how to send e-mails from a shell script, including file attachments. It lists different ways (uuencode, MIME), and explains the advantages and disadvantages of each. The appendix contains a shell script “sendfile” that simplifies sending MIME file attachments using scripts.