Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Installing Nexpose

In this section, we will discuss a tool called Nexpose. Nexpose is made by Rapid7. It's made by the same people that made Metasploit and Metasploit Community, and it's similar to Metasploit Community in the sense that it has a web GUI and it allows us to discover, assess, and act on discovered vulnerabilities. It also maps these vulnerabilities to existing exploits, but the difference is Metasploit Community only showed us exploits that can be used within Metasploit, whereas Nexpose actually shows us exploits that have been published somewhere other than Rapid7 and Metasploit. It works on a larger scale, it shows us more vulnerabilities, and it also helps us to create a report at the end of the scan so that we can share ...