ASS, the autonomous system scanner, is designed to find the AS of the router.
It supports the following protocols: IRDP, IGRP, EIGRP, RIPv1, RIPv2, CDP, HSRP
and OSPF.
In passive mode (./ass -i eth0), it just listens to routing protocol packets
(like broadcast and multicast hellos).
In active mode (./ass -i eth0 -A), it tries to discover routers by asking [...]

Backtrack 2 is the last edition of a very famous and widely used penetration testing Linux Live Distro. We will try to do walkthrough of every single (or as much as possible) tools that comes with backtrack 2. Since this is a very large project, and the distro itself contains approximately 255 unique tools. It [...]

What is Nmap?
Nmap (”Network Mapper”) is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) [...]

Remember the paperless office? By now we were supposed to be handling all of our documents digitally, and saving trees by using computers to handle everything electronically. If you’d like to make backup copies of ephemeral content without printing it out, turn your Linux box into a PDF generation device for your entire network.
What sort [...]