Introduction to Vulnerability Scanning
Understand the fundamentals of vulnerability scanning including how scanners detect known vulnerabilities in services and identify common security flaws like injections. Learn the difference between commercial and custom-built scanners using Scapy, and gain insight into developing automated tools to assess application security on network ports.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Introduction to vulnerability scanning
We’ve developed a port scanner designed to identify whether a particular port is open and listening. Now, we go a step further and investigate whether the applications listening to those ports have exploitable vulnerabilities. ...