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Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux
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Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

by Karl Gilbert Gupta, Benjamin Caudill
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
508 pages
11h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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Setting up Nexpose vulnerability scanner on our Kali machine

In Chapter 3, Exploitation on the Cloud using Kali Linux, we saw how to set up Nessus on our Kali instance remotely. Setting up Nexpose remotely is the same. Why do we need Nexpose in addition to Nessus? Automated vulnerability scanners identify vulnerabilities by matching service version numbers and OS signatures. However, this may sometime lead to false positives, or worse, false negatives. In order to double check and get a more comprehensive vulnerability assessment result, it is always a good idea to use more than one vulnerability scanner:

  1. Start off by visiting https://www.rapid7.com/products/insightvm/download/ and sign up for a license. The license will be sent to the ...

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