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Topic name : Scanning and Surfing Group names : Ayesha Zaman Safa farooq Maryam Saddique Irsa Aftab Ilsa Naeem Submitted to : Dr faiza SCANNING: Scanning a text means looking through it quickly to find specific information. Scanning is commonly used in everyday life, for example when looking up a word in a dictionary or finding your friend's name in the contacts directory of your phone. Scanning is rapidly running your eyes over the text in order to locate specific details. Three steps to scanning include: search for key words move quickly over the page Less reading and more searching Example: Scanning is the act of searching a particular information in a text with a particular approach. For instance, if you want to know the meaning of the word 'virtuous' from a dictionary, you will start searching the letter V first, then I, and then R; by then you probably will have found the word. TYPS OF SCANNING: Scanning could be basically of three types: Port Scanning Network Scanning Vulnerability Scanning NETWORK SCANNING:
It is one of the components of intelligence gathering and information retrieving mechanism an attacker used to create an overview scenario of the target organization (target organization: means the group of people or organization which falls in the prey of the Hacker). VULNERABILITY SCANNING: It is the proactive identification of the system's vulnerabilities within a network in an automated manner to determine whether the system can be exploited or threatened. I this case, the computer should have to be connected to the internet. PORT SCANNING: It is a conventional technique used by penetration testers and hackers to search for open doors from which hackers can access any organization's system. During this scan, hackers need to find out those live hosts, firewalls installed, operating systems used, different devices attached to the system, and the targeted organization's topology. SURFING THE INTERNET: Internet Surfing as it is popularly known means to go from one page to another on the Internet, browsing for topics of interest. Internet Surfing usually involves: Starting an Internet browser Note: Browsers are software programs that allow you to move from one page to another on the Internet IMPORTANCE: In this generation, surfing the Internet has become our daily routine. With the Net, we can do many things, such as shopping for clothes, making friends, and getting information. We rely on the Internet to solve problems in our daily life. First, shopping online for clothes is the thing I like to do the best on the Internet. There are many kinds of clothes I can choose by browsing the websites. I don’t have to go outsides to buy them, which saves me a lot of time. It is especially convenient when the weather is not good. Second, we can make many kinds of friends on the Internet. We can know foreign friends who can tell us about their experiences, cultures, work, and so on through the Internet. On the other hand, we don’t have to go long distance to meet them; we can just sit in front of the computer and talk to them in English. Therefore, making friends on the Internet can not only open our mind to the world but also improve our language skills. Third, we can get lots of information from the Internet. If we didn’t have the Internet, we would have to spend much time searching information. Nowadays, we only need to key words into Google and we will find a lot of relevant information. It is very convenient and can save us much time. In addition, we can get the news of current events instantly on the Internet. We can also choose what we want to know on the Web. We can not only save time in searching news but also save the money for buying newspapers. Finally, the Internet makes our life become more convenient and variable. Take myself for example. I used to go to the movie theater to see movies. With the Internet, I almost stay at home
