Idle scanning paper released

Hello everyone,

One of the coolest yet still relatively obscure features of Nmap is
the Idle scan (-sI).  Not only does this allow for a completely blind
portscan (no packets sent to the target from your real IP), but it can
even allow you to bypass packet filters in certain circumstances.  I
think one reason this has not taken off is that documentation is
pretty scarce.  So I have written an informal paper describing Idle
scanning as well as several other exploits based on predictable IPID
sequence numbers.  It includes real-life examples as well as a section
on defending yourself from these techniques.  The paper is at
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/idlescan.html and feedback is welcome.

If you want to test Idle scanning functionality, I recommend Nmap
3.10ALPHA3 (released an hour ago) as it fixes several bugs and
improves the algorithm slightly.

Cheers,
Fyodor

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