HCAK: Level 1 vulnerablilty scanning using vega

What is vulnerability scanning?
Vulnerability scanning is checking an website or a network or a device for vulnerability that can be exploited. Vulnerability can be define as a bug that is present on any website,network or device...

What you need:-

Kali linux installed on VMware
Internet connection

How to do it:

Click on application menu on the home screen of Kali Linux.

Then from the drop down list select Kali Linux and then select web applictions.

Then select web vulnerability scanner and then click on Vega.(You can omit the above given steps by just typing Vega in the terminal and hitting enter)

Now to start the scan click on scan then click start new scan..

A window will open now enter the base URL for scan.

Then click on finish..

After a few minutes it will start showing you some results and will show you all possible vulnerable links to that particular website..

Limitations:-

This is one the most basic scanning software and hence the results many not be perfect and these results should be verified manually or using other more complex software and exploits..