Netcat power tools : [look past its deceptive simplicity to master the power of Netcat! ; maintain a foothold on an exploited system with Netcat during penetration testing ; use Netcat in both command and data channels to troubleshoot your network ; integrate Netcat with other tools for complete network enumeration and scanning] Netcat in one of the most commonly used anti hacking tools in the world. It reads and writes data across network connections using the TCP IP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable back end tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time it is a feature rich network debugging tool since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has very interesting built in capabilities. It lends itself to being useful in a myriad of situations. This book offers a comprehensive look at its possibilities