“Vulnerability Management“… This is an important topic for your corporate security. One of the steps in this process is the monitoring of your applications and operating systems. With hundreds (thousands?) of devices connected to your network, how to keep an eye on the applications and patches installed on all of
Tag: Vulnerability
Vulnerability Scanner within Nmap
Port and vulnerability scanners are common tools used by good as bad guys. Performing a port scanning is one of the first operations required to find potential vulnerabilities on a target system. That’s why vulnerability scanners have built-in port scanners. Writing a port scanner is really easy with a few
Web Scanning Comes to the Cloud…
iiScan is a new on-line vulnerability scanner for websites. It is developed by a Chinese company called NOSEC Technologies [Note: I found the name funny for a company which develops a security solution]. What’s new with iiScan? It is based on a cloud-computing! The service is free but you have
Full-Disclosure is now Illegal in France
The principle of full-disclosure is to publish all the details of a discovered security problem (a software vulnerability). By doing this, the security researchers try to fight against the other principle of “Security by Obscurity”. Once a vulnerability has been found, the “normal” way of working should be to contact