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Mark D. Spivey

"Practical Hacking Techniques and Countermeasures"

Click OK.
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The Security Scanner screen will appear. Enter the target IP Address or
Hostname in the Host Address field. Click on Start Scan.
N-Stealth will ask if you want to add this target to the host list ? Click Yes.
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The scan will initiate against the target. The free version includes more
than 20,000 exploits while the paid version includes more than 30,000.
Once the scan completes, the N-Stealth Report Manager will appear. Click
on the report and then click the Summary button.
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An N-Stealth Scanning Results Summary report for the scan will appear
listing the overall results of the scan. N-Stealth offers the ability for reports to
be generated in either HTML or XML format. For this example, click the
Generate HTML button.
The Report Generation screen appears. Verify your HTML format selection,
accept the default location for the report, and enter any specific custom notes
to be included in the report. Click OK.
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The Report Generator will create the report and display an information
window. Click OK.
Double-click the report from the directory N-Stealth saved the report to.
The N-Stealth report will open in the Web browser. Any Custom Notes
entered prior to the scan will be displayed in the Notes section.
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By scrolling down the screen the specifics of the screen are shown, including:
 The Vulnerability Name
 The Risk Level (High, Medium, Low)
 Bugtraq ID number
 CVE ID
 An HTML link to the target demonstrating the exploit
*Note: Many times the HTML link will not provide anything useful, but I can tell you
from experience with this application that when you receive this many hits
on a target, the target itself has not been updated in quite a while.


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