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A Vulnerability Scanning Tools is one of the essential tools in IT departments Since vulnerabilities pop up every day and thus leaving a loophole for the organization. The Vulnerability scanning tools helps in detecting security loopholes with the application, operating systems, hardware and network systems. Hackers are actively looking for these loopholes to use them […]
Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6700 potentially dangerous files/programs, checks for outdated versions of over 1250 servers, and version specific problems on over 270 servers. It also checks for server configuration items such as the presence of multiple index […]
Paskto will passively scan the web using the Common Crawl internet index either by downloading the indexes on request or parsing data from your local system. URLs are then processed through Nikto and known URL lists to identify interesting content. Hash signatures are also used to identify known default content for some IoT devices or […]
Collecting information is a useful tool in any situation. For a penetration tester, information gathering is not only useful but necessary. When they’re trying to discover the security flaws in a system/network/web application, it’s important to know what they’re working with. Every person’s preference on how to get that information is different. However, the following […]