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A port scanner is a software application designed to probe a server or host for open ports. This is often used by administrators to verify security policies of their networks and by attackers to identify running services on a host with the view to compromise it.
A port scan or portscan is "An attack that sends client
requests to a range of server port addresses on a host, with the goal
of finding an active port and exploiting a known vulnerability of that
service."[1]
To portsweep is to scan multiple hosts for a specific
listening port. The latter is typically used in searching for a specific
service, for example, an SQL-based computer worm may portsweep looking for hosts listening on TCP port 1433.
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