Port scanner
application designed to probe for open ports From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A port scanner is a software tool that checks which ports are open on a network host.
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This is often used by network administrators to verify security policies of their networks and by attackers to find network services running on a host to take advantage of vulnerabilities.
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