Anyone have any good external pen testing tools that you’ve used on your self hosted setup? Mine is pretty secure overall but I would like to be able to scan the WAN for vulnerabilities or misconfigurations just to make sure I haven’t missed anything.
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Check out openvas.
https://github.com/greenbone/openvas-scanner
I use Nessus professionally, they are somewhat similar. I can’t decide which one has the worse user interface.
Plus 1 to openvas. UI is indeed horrendous though.
Be careful running high load tests against sensitive devices. I once ran it against a PoE switch I used for my cameras and it did something so crazy that it required me not to only power cycle the switch, but to disconnect all the cameras first and then power cycle. Was super confusing and felt like it found a way to short the device lol. Scared the hell out of me.
That being said, I’ve found many many things to improve on my devices thanks to openvas.
I had a colleague at work years ago who did his Master’s thesis on network scanning. He ran a PoC in the company’s network and had all the printers print hundreds of pages.
We learned that printers suck and that we should always know our payloads and targets 😁
Another +1 to openvas. Specifically, I have had much luck with this Dockerized version: https://github.com/immauss/openvas
You can try to scan your server with vulnerability assessment tools such as Nessus (it is available as a docker container) or sn1per which is open source.
Not sure if there’s a free tier. Lifetime memberships go on sale for cheap at least once a year, though.
Personally I’d run a free VM in the cloud and scan yourself with nessus, nmap, and such. Trying to scan yourself from inside doesn’t really work well for some reason. I assume it’s something to do with routing.
I’d like to know the answer here as well
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
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Probably anything within the Kali Linux suite or any security-centric distribution. If possible, boot it up to a laptop hooked to a phone hotspot or any network outside your home network, route through a VPN, determine your WAN IP, and go to town.
I’m a big fan of hashcat for this use case myself! I route it through WS, however. I like being on the bleeding edge.
