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Question of the day 08/09, Cybersecurity Edition


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Day 7. 

What is missing from a half-open scan?

  • FIN
  • SYN-ACK
  • ACK
  • SYN
  • RST

Best answer by JMeixner

ACK (the last ACK)

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ACK (the last ACK)


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ACK


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In an half-scan, what is missing is last ACK.

It’s used to avoid logging on scanned device by interrupting TCP handshake.

On nmap is “-sS” and it’s the default scan.


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