Kali Linux

I usually scan for vulnerabilities using the Nessus Scanner but its “big and heavy” and takes time to scan hosts for all the vulnerabilities depending on the plugins available. Although, Nessus has the option to scan for a particular vulnerability, here I discuss a better and quicker way to do it.

Macchanger is a tool already available in Kali Linux or Backtrack. It lets you change the hardware address pertaining to a particular interface on your machine. For instance, as eth0 or wlan0 are the interfaces for wired and wireless connection respectively, here’s how you would use it:

Read my Post on Setting up on Nessus, if you haven’t got it set up yet. After logging into Nessus, go to ‘Scans’ -> ‘Create new scan’ Here, give a name to the scan (I usually use current Date).

I posted this article in 2013. At the time, Kali Linux had just come out as a successor of Backtrack and this article garnered attention on the Internet since it was one of the very early reviews posted.

The Nessus vulnerability scanner is a great scanner for locating vulnerabilities in clients on local and remote networks. However, it does not come pre-installed in Kali Linux at this time. If you try to install it using the repositories, apt-get install nessus, you will notice that there is no such package.