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Vulnerability scanning demo

Vulnerability scanning demo

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Vulnerability scanning demo

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- So we've talked a little bit about scanning. The last topic was vulnerability scanning, which really is a composite type of approach. We're scanning for multiple things at the same time. As I mentioned, you have to be careful because it can be very noisy, and it can really tip your hand that you're actually about to attack a system. So let's go take a look at different ways that we can actually scan. In fact, we're going to just basically do the things we've talked about in the previous few sections. So let's go back into our lab environment and let's try to execute a few vulnerabilities scans. We're going to start back in Kali. Notice that I have, I'm in a VirtualBox, and I have my two other virtual machines running. I've got the DVWA and Metasploitable 2. Remember, Metasploitable is running on 10.10.1.10, DVWA is running on 10.10.1.11, and of course Kali is running on 10.10.1.12. So let's open a terminal window. I'll open a new window here. And in Kali, I'm going to execute a…

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