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Port Scanning

The process of sending packets to specific ports on a host to determine which services are running and potentially vulnerable, a common reconnaissance technique.

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Firewall IDS IPS VPN DMZ NAC VLAN Subnet Packet Sniffing ARP Spoofing DNS Spoofing MITM Attack
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