System Security Scanner

Synopsis
This project is intended to design and implement Internet Security scanner that can help the system administrator to check their network vulnerability. One way to implement this project is by observing the ports on your system. Ports are used in TCP and UDP to name the ends of logical connections that carry long-term conversations. For the purpose of providing services to unknown callers service contact ports are defined, these are sometimes called 'Well-Known Ports'. To some extent, these same port assignments are used both for TCP and UDP. The Well-Known Ports numbering range from 0 till 1023 and are assigned by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). IANA registers and lists also the use of ports in the range 1024 to 49151 which are called Registered Ports. Ports in the range from 49152 to 65535 are called Dynamic Ports.

Port numbers to identify the higher layer applications at the hosts that are communicating with each other. End-to-end data communications on the Internet, in fact, are uniquely identified by the source and destination host IP addresses and the source and destination TCP/UDP port numbers. System administrators are constantly being advised to check their systems for open ports and services that might be running that are either unintended or unnecessary. In some cases, the services might be Trojans just waiting to be exploited. The most common host-based tool for checking for open ports on Windows or Unix systems is the netstat command. But running this command means actually walking or remotely accessing each and every server; and you miss other host systems that might be listening on improper ports. This is where

ports Scanners come in; with this tool, a system, network, or security administrator can check a group of hosts all at once. Port scanning software has long been in the hacker's arsenal and is finally emerging as an important defensive tool as well and if you don't use a port scanner to test your defenses, you should. A port scanner, most simply, probes a computer system running TCP/IP to determine which TCP and UDP ports are open and listening, which indicates all of the services that this system is offering to other TCP/IP hosts.