In this tutorual will go over the most useful netcat commands. Netcat is a tool that every IT professional should have in their tool box, if you’re responsible for network or systems security, it is essential that you understand the capabilities of netcat. The original version of netcat is a UNIX program. Its author is known as Hobbit. He released version 1.1 in March of 1996. Netcat is available for Unix and Windows OS.
Netcat is a featured networking utility which 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 and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities, including: port scanner, backdoor, port redirector, port listener, and lots of other things….Let’s see what we can do with netcat.

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