July 2018
Beginner
564 pages
12h 22m
English
Content preview from Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch
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The AutoScan tool
AutoScan is another program that can be used to discover computers or clients connected to the same network. It's not as fast as netdiscover, but it has a graphical interface, so it's easier to use, and it actually displays more detailed information about the discovered clients. Let's go to the Kali machine and download the Linux version of AutoScan from https://sourceforge.net/projects/autoscan/files/AutoScan/autoscan-network%201.42/autoscan-network-1.42-Linux-x86-Install.tar.gz/download. The problem with the latest version (version 1.5) is that it has a bug, so it doesn't work very well. So, what we are going to do is download an older version, which is 1.42. If we go to Files | Downloads, we will see the file. Let's extract ...