From the course: Ethical Hacking: Vulnerability Analysis
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- [Instructor] A website has many vulnerabilities and should be tested on a regular basis. Web server scanning conducts a black box test in that they do not access the source code on a web application, but they're able to identify security vulnerabilities. Nikto is built into Kali Linux, and is an open-source web server scanner. It performs complete testing on web servers for a variety of vulnerabilities such as outdated versions of servers, version-specific problems, missing headers, and dangerous files and CGIs. I'm in Kali Linux, and let's take a look at where you can find Nikto. Go to Applications, and as you can see all the tools are loaded, and there's quite a few of them. And then we go to Vulnerability Analysis, and Nikto. Now we could have opened it up in a terminal, but we can see that we have a handy shortcut. Now I'm going to scan a website, but first I'll need the IP address. Now, the website is…
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