Unauthorized port scanning. If your job involves networking or cybersecurity, you’re contracted to do pen-testing, or your activities are limited to a network you own, you’ll be fine.
Definitely! But speaking of pen-testing, there are some “funny” stories about pen-testers getting temporarily apprehended and questioned by security or the authorities when communication between their employer and their client wasn’t done properly. I wonder if the IT Crowd at my agency would notice if I did an unsanctioned, unauthorized port scan from my office desktop…
Yep, true story. Besides from the particulars in the GDPR that affects EU citizens, I think there is a more generalized disclaimer in the nmap manual about doing certain scans.
Wtf really?
Unauthorized port scanning. If your job involves networking or cybersecurity, you’re contracted to do pen-testing, or your activities are limited to a network you own, you’ll be fine.
Definitely! But speaking of pen-testing, there are some “funny” stories about pen-testers getting temporarily apprehended and questioned by security or the authorities when communication between their employer and their client wasn’t done properly. I wonder if the IT Crowd at my agency would notice if I did an unsanctioned, unauthorized port scan from my office desktop…
https://nmap.org/book/legal-issues.html
Yep, true story. Besides from the particulars in the GDPR that affects EU citizens, I think there is a more generalized disclaimer in the nmap manual about doing certain scans.
No US laws currently criminalize port scanning.
So go learn SEToolkit instead I guess.
The US isn’t the only country; this is a GDPR thing.