NMAP Scanning without Scanning (Part 2) – The ipinfo API, (Wed, May 22nd)

Going back a year or so, I wrote a story on the passive recon, specifically the IPINFO API (https://isc.sans.edu/diary/28596).&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0; This API returns various information on an IP address: the registered owning organization and ASN, and a (usually reasonably accurate) approximation of where that IP might reside.
&#;x26;#;xd; Looking at yesterday&#;x26;#;39;s story, I thought to myself, why not port my script from last year to an NMAP NSE script?&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0; So I did!

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Scanning without Scanning with NMAP (APIs FTW), (Tue, May 21st)

A year ago I wrote up using Shodan&#;x26;#;39;s API to collect info on open ports and services without actually scanning for them (Shodan&#;x26;#;39;s API for the (Recon) Win!). This past week I was trolling through the NMAP scripts directory, and imagine my surprise when I stumbled on shodan-api.nse.
So the network scanner we all use daily can be used to scan without actually scanning? Apparently yes!

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