Nexpose Vulnerability Scanner Basic Usage

Rapid7, the company which acquired Metasploit has a vulnerability scanner of it's own called NeXpose. The NeXpose Community Edition is a free vulnerability scanner, a single-user version of the award-winning Rapid7 NeXpose Enterprise solution. You can download it from here.

In this video, archangel.amael shows us how to run a vulnerability scan using NeXpose in Backtrack 4. Thanks go out to Netinfinity for referring this video to us. You can visit his blog for interesting articles on security. 

Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the co-founder of Axonize. Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net