How would you hide yourself whilst conducting a scan on a target network to identify open service ports?

I am working on this question which asks how you would conduct a scan of a target network to identify open service ports without revealing your IP address. It wants details such as IP address obfuscation, requirements to be met to receive … Continue reading How would you hide yourself whilst conducting a scan on a target network to identify open service ports?

Does an nmap scan take significantly longer if scanning an IP on another continent? [closed]

I’ve been asked and given permission to scan IPs on a different continent.
The scan already takes 2-3 hours for their subnets within the country.
Will the increased latency cause a significant change to the scanning time?

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Do email security scans that follow links replace digest params in URLs with invalid values?

Going through our application logs recently I noticed a number of instances of page requests where an invalid SHA512 digest param in a URL resulted in a 403.
A couple aspects of these requests make me suspect an email scanner is checking o… Continue reading Do email security scans that follow links replace digest params in URLs with invalid values?