What is Amap? Amap is a next-generation tool for assisting network penetration testing. It performs fast and reliable application protocol detection, independant on the TCP/UDP port they are being bound to. Amap is a scanning tool that allows you to identify the applications that are running on a specific port or ports. This is achieved [...]

Previously We have reviewed all the Information Gathering tools under Backtrack 2, a penetration testing Live linux distro; today we will start reviewing all the Networking Mapping tools that backtrack 2 comes equipped with. You can find a quick review of the Information Gathering tools. Here is a look of all the backtrack 2 Network [...]

Since the beginning of the Backtrack 2 hacking tools review till now, we have reviewed every single one tools under the Information Gathering Banner. That’s 26 in total!! Some doesn’t work anymore (1 2&3), but most do. Here is a list of all the tools with links reviewed sofar: Information Gathering Ass DMitry DNS-Ptr dnswalk [...]

TCtrace is like itrace a traceroute(1) brother – but it uses TCP SYN packets to trace. This makes it possible for you to trace through firewalls if you know one TCP service that is allowed to pass from the outside. Commands are very simple, with 80 as a default destination port. I used this command: [...]