Penetration Tests With Nessus (Chapter 1)

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Hello everyone. Today I will write to you about " Nessus Vulnerability Scanner "

This is the first part of my wiriting about nessus in this section I will talk about simple scans and setup

Nessus Linux Installation

You should first download the appropriate for your system.

You can view the packages in this;

https://www.tenable.com/products/nessus/select-your-operating-system

I downloaded the debian package. Let’s go to setup :slight_smile:

dpkg -i Nessus-7.0.0-debian6_amd64.deb

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We got the activation code after opening Tenable membership. I then connected with the 8834 port scanner and entered the necessary information

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Meanwhile I downloaded the " metasploitable 2 " virtual machine. Then started broadcasting with VirtualBox

For a short time IP Address for vulnerability researcher
Now right click on the new scan option.

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We enter the target name and ip address bla.bla.bla.bla

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This part asks if you want to do the scanning at the widespread ports or not.
We started scanning .

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Continues to scan I will have a coffee :slight_smile: Nessus gives more healthier result than its competitors.

I am using nessus with remote server because I do not have to wait for slow scans.

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In the second part we will explain how to exploit these vulnerabilities.

Thank you for reading

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Good going. Look forward to the follow-up post.

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So a Basic Network Scan is pretty straight forward. It would be nice - if you know how - to see a few credentialed scans on various hosts (Windows and Linux) too. :slight_smile:

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Also everybody, if you’d like a much easier way to scan for known vulnerabilities.

Use vulners!

   nmap -sV --script vulners <target>
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This script is successful but has too much false positive

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looking forward for the second part

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Interesting, still not sure if I’d use Nessus on a single machine like the example you gave. If it was a network or something then I’d see the usefulness maybe in the next part you could elaborate more on that? Otherwise great job being descriptive!

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I feel like I have had this discussion before regarding when to use Nessus. Good tutorial though, will definitely have to have a play with it again.

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Nice sharing! i keep to watching.:heart_eyes:

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Hello everyone :slight_smile:

At the end of this month I’m thinking of writing part 2. Stay on track :slight_smile:

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thank you so much . we expect more