Nmap is a tool that is commonly used by hackers to discover information about a target network. Network technicians also use Nmap to troubleshoot and document their network. The tool produces ...

Need a quick and no-fuss way to list every device on your network, including the IP address and other information about each? Then give this small, free, simple-to-use utility a try. Advanced IP ...

My home and home lab network are a mess. Over the years, connecting my lab's physical and virtual machines (VMs), SAN, NAS, and other projects using various network switches, and routers have become a ...

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Nmap, the open-source network mapping tool that became the standard used by many IT professionals, but that can be a bit much if you only need to do general ...

In one of the more audacious and ethically questionable research projects in recent memory, an anonymous hacker built a botnet of more than 420,000 Internet-connected devices and used it to perform ...

When you really need to know what's going on with your network, give one of these free monitors a try. Monitoring your network can be a real pain. First and foremost, what tool should you use?