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True or false: Port scanning can be used to determine which applications and servers are present on a host?
True
False
Porting scanning can reveal the presence of applications or services that are listening on a particular port(s), but but it cannon in general reveal all applications and servers that are present on a hose. *** Services, not servers ****
Correct answer is false. It can only tell you what port a service is listening on, it's only an assumption as to what is running until you banner grab or investigate further. You can assume 80 is HTTP but it could easily be a MySQL server. There are very few services of the tens of thousands available that MUST run on a specific port due to standards and lack of purpose if they don't.
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