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OpenVAS Scanner - The Network Vulnerability scanner

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  OpenVAS is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution. The framework is part of Greenbone Networks' commercial vulnerability management solution from which developments are contributed to the Open Source community since 2009. in kali openvas is not present by default. We have to install it manually, for installing openvas open a terminal and enter apt install openvas to open openvas Goto Applications >> Vulnerability Analysis >> openvas start         login with your username and password, the default username is admin and the default password is created at the end of installation. If you missed the password just reset it by using the command openvasmd --user=admin –new-password=admin123 ( give your desired password) After logging in the dashboard will be like this  

Nmap - Network Scanning Tool

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Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. In addition to the classic command-line Nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes an advanced GUI and results viewer (Zenmap), a flexible data transfer, redirection, and