Remote-exploit.org announced an update on the development of widely populor linux based penetration testing distro Backtrack 3 Beta.
Backtrack is the byproduct of a merger between two leading penetration testing distro Whax and Auditor Security Collection, after joining forces Backtrack gained huge popularity and in 2006 was voted the number 1 Security Live Distro by Insecure.org
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Genlist is a program that returns a list of hosts that responding to ping probes. Thus, this list can be used to perform an scan of these machines using PBNJ or Nmap.
In this example we will use genlist along with nmap.
First we will generate list of live hosts and save it to a file [...]

fping is a like program which uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a target host is responding. fping differs from ping in that you can specify any number of targets on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists of targets to ping. Instead of sending [...]

Previously we have discussed ASS, (autonomous system scanner).
So today we will review our next tool Autoscan.
AutoScan is an application designed to explore and to manage your network. Entire subnets can be scanned simultaneously without human intervention. The objective of the program is to post the list of all equipment connected to the network. A [...]