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Vulnerability scanner:
- Vulnerability scanner is a software program or network appliance that is used to scan the wide range of address present in the network along with their port numbers to avail open services.
- A form of software application that is designed to validate and monitor the network ports that is available open for different services.
- Vulnerability scanner is of two types and they are listed below:
- Active vulnerability scanner.
- Passive vulnerability scanner.
- They are used in identifying and detect the vulnerabilities present in the network.
- It is used in scanning and obtaining the security holes that are present in
operating system , network that is open with configuration problem and also the username and password that are exposed...
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